Michelle Wie West, Nancy Lopez pay homage to LPGA founders at World Golf Hall of Fame | Golf Channel
good evening everyone wow it’s amazing to be back at Pinehurst and I’m enjoying all the attention the LPGA has been getting recently combined with the unprecedented interest in women’s basketball the record crowds on campus see women’s volleyball the success of the first season of the professional women’s hockey league and the buds for the upcoming Summer Olympics it’s really a never better time to be a female athlete [Applause] but let’s not forget today’s sports women are standing on the shoulders of the LPGA Founders almost 75 years ago these 13 Trailblazers laid the Cornerstone for building up professional sports for women and look what they started they inspired their emergence of other Pioneers like Billy Jean King in the 1960s the institution of Title 9 in the 70s and the popularity of international women’s tennis in the 1980s and let’s not forget the explosion of women’s soccer in the 1990s this summer for the first time in history female athletes participation will see 100% gender equality at the Paris Olympics My Hope tonight is that daughters sisters and mothers all over the world will say a big thank you to the 13 LPGA Founders Alice Bower Patty Berg Betty danoff Helen Detweiler marleene Bower haggy Helen Hicks Opel Hill Betty Jameson Sally sessions Marilyn Smith Shirley Spork l sugs and Babe [Applause] Zaharias and remember we’ve come a long way baby accepting on behalf of the lpj founding members is another badass and one of my heroes World Golf Hall of Fame member Nancy Lopez [Applause] [Applause] thank you thank you thank you Michelle 37 years ago I was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame with the rest of the class of 1987 including Betsy RS that recognition my entire career wouldn’t have been possible if exactly 37 years earlier 13 Brave women didn’t pursue their dreams and create the LPGA they changed my world they changed the entire world so on behalf of Alice Patty Betty Helen marleene Helen opal Betty Sally Marilyn Shirley Louise and babe it’s my profound honor to accept their induction into the World Golf Hall of Fame
Michelle Wie West and Nancy Lopez explain the incredible importance of the LPGA’s founders — Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Detweiler, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs and Babe Zaharias — as they were inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. #GolfChannel #LiveFrom #WorldGolfHallofFame #MichelleWieWest
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Michelle Wie West, Nancy Lopez pay homage to LPGA founders at World Golf Hall of Fame | Golf Channel
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It may be an extraordinary time to be a female athlete unless you're the best female basketball player in the world and your race keeps you off the Olympic team…yes, that is Caitlin Clark.
Their induction was l o n g overdue!
This is off the subject a little, but I visited the World Golf Hall of Fame a few years ago, and played one of the two golf courses there. I was a little surprised that the facilities and the golf course showed some deterioration and it appeared it wasn’t being kept and maintained at the level of quality you would expect. It was the first time I have visited the property, and always had the assumption that was the showcase for the history of the game and the world of golf. It was disappointing to see that it obviously wasn’t getting the attention it so rightly deserves.