Who Are The 50 Best Golfers in History?
6. Louise Suggs
Suggs was a prolific amateur champion in the southeast before the formation of the LPGA in 1950. She won 11 majors: one LPGA, two U.S. Women’s Opens, four Titleholders and four Women’s Western Opens. She also won 61 tournaments, all of them on the LPGA.
Suggs played against the best of her time, Babe Zaharias, Patty Berg and others who would go on to become founders of the LPGA. In addition, she beat both Hogan and Snead in competitions.
In 1946 as an amateur, Suggs teamed with Ben Hogan to win the Pro-Lady Victory National Championship at the Medinah No. 3 Course. During the back nine in the first round she beat Hogan’s score from the same tees from the same tees at Medinah # 3.
Then in February of 1961 in the Royal Poinciana Invitational in West Palm Beach, Fla., Suggs won a 54-hole event the par-3 course in a field that included Patty Berg, Betsy Rawls, Sam Snead, Henry Picard, Lew Worsham, Tommy Armour, Dow Finsterwald and Gardner Dickinson. Snead, reportedly, was upset about losing, but the next year he won.
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