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Nationality
  
United States

Name
  
Shirley Spork

Role
  
Professional golfer

Women's PGA C'ship
  
2nd: 1962

Turned professional
  
1950

U.S. Women's Open
  
T8: 1962


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Born
  
May 14, 1927 (age 96) Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (
1927-05-14
)

Residence
  
Palm Desert, California, United States

Former tour(s)
  
LPGA Tour (co-founder)

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Shirley G. Spork (born May 14, 1927) is an American retired professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.

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She never won an LPGA Tour event but she finished second at the 1962 LPGA Championship. She worked as a teaching pro for many years.

She won the 1947 national individual intercollegiate golf championship while attending Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University).

Lpga founder shirley spork on the first tee at the 2015 solheim cup


References

Shirley Spork Wikipedia