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Glasgow, Carla Jean

Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. This game does not have any fixed standard playing area, but an ideal measurement can be decided as per the availability of space and number of players involved. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. Although often viewed as an elite pastime, golf is now becoming an increasingly popular sport across all sections of society.

LPGA, Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, with headquarters in Daytona Beach, Florida runs a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from around the world from February to November each year. The LPGA was founded in 1950 by a group of 13 women. LPGA Tour's events are held in the United States.

Glasgow, Carla Jean was born on 31st July 1943, in Los Angeles, California. Her height is 5 foot 5 inches. She joined the tour in time for the U.S. Open in 1971 where she earned a players card quickly, but won little money, most of it coming on a 14th place at Alamo, California. She has bettered scoring average more than 2 strokes per round since 1971. She has also broke a course record at Hillcrest Country Club up to that time held by Didrickson Zaharias who scored 71. She won in Tucker and California Intercollegiate events in 1963.

The desire to use her talents for the Glory and Honor of her God and Country propelled her in an attempt to excel at the highest level of sporting achievement to inspire future generations of her countrymen to do the same upholding the highest standards of patriotic fervor.

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