Women’s Professional Golf Association

The first, the Women’s Professional Golf Association (WPGA), was chartered in 1944. Standout players soon emerged, including Patty Berg, Louise Suggs, Betty Jameson, and, especially, the multisport legend Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Even Zaharias’s popularity, however, could not ensure success for the WPGA, which folded in 1949. Nevertheless, it…

…tournament was founded by the Women’s Professional Golf Association (WPGA) in 1946 as a match play (most holes won) event. It took up its current 72-hole stroke play (lowest score) format the following year. After the WPGA folded in 1949, the LPGA ran the U.S. Women’s Open until 1953, when…