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Nickname
  
Peggy

Titleholders C'ship
  
Won: 1949

Education
  
Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
Peggy Bell

Former tours
  
LPGA

Spouse
  
Warren "Bullet" Bell

Role
  
Golfer

Turned professional
  
1950

Western Open
  
2nd: 1950

Height
  
1.71 m




Full name
  
Margaret Anne Kirk Bell

Born
  
October 28, 1921 (age 103) Findlay, Ohio (
1921-10-28
)

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Margaret Anne "Peggy" Kirk Bell (October 28, 1921 – November 23, 2016) was an American professional golfer and golf instructor known for her strong advocacy of women's golf.

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Born in Findlay, Ohio, Peggy started playing golf at age 17. She took to the game immediately and quickly won a number of titles. She played college golf at Rollins College. She was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma. She played the ladies amateur tour in the 1940s before the development of a professional tour, winning three Ohio Amateurs and the 1949 Titleholders Championship and North and South Women's Amateur. She was also a member of the 1950 U.S. Curtis Cup team.

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At that time she competed as Peggy Kirk, and in 1953 she married her high school sweetheart, Warren "Bullet" Bell, who had played professional basketball with the Fort Wayne Pistons before turning to business. Warren died in 1984.

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In 1990, she was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. She became the first woman voted into the World Golf Teachers Hall of Fame in 2002.

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Bell owned the Pines Needles Resort in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Her older daughter, Bonnie, is married to former PGA Tour member Pat McGowan. She died there in November 2016 at the age of 95.

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Team appearances

Amateur

  • Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 1950 (winners)
  • References

    Peggy Kirk Bell Wikipedia


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