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Home > Golf > LPGA Tour Players > Hagge, Marlene
Hagge, Marlene
Golf is an outdoor sport where player as an individual or from varied teams strike a ball targeting a hole using various clubs. The game basically originated from Scotland and has been played for at least five centuries in the British Isles. The two basic forms of playing golf are match play and stroke play.
LPGA stands for Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour. LPGA, in 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.
Hagge, Marlene a LPGA player was born on the 16th February 1934, in Eureka, South Dakota. Her height is five foot two inches. Her career victories are 26 in 1972.
In 2002, she was voted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame through the Veteran’s Category in February and was officially inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on November 15. She played competitively on the LPGA Tour during each of the LPGA’s first five decades. In 2001, along with fellow LPGA Founder Shirley Spork, she was awarded the Executive Women’s Golf Association’s Leadership Award. In 1997, she played in the Sprint Titleholders Senior Challenge, where she placed ninth.
At the age of 10, she won the Long Beach City Boys Junior. At the age of 13, she won the Western and National Junior Championships, the Los Angeles Women’s City Championship, the Palm Springs Women’s Championship, Northern California Open and the Indio Women’s Invitational. In 1947, at the age of 13, she became the youngest player to make the cut at the U.S. Women’s Open and finished eighth.
She started playing golf at age 3 under the eye of her father Dave. She is a health nut who eats mostly natural foods and takes up to 50 vitamin pills per day. She is recognized as one of the LPGA’s top-50 players and has competed as Marlene Bauer from 1950-56.
She is one of the best known golf players. A unique style of game strategy and excellent judgment is what makes this great player one of the best all time golf players. Sheer determination, concentration and self confidence have helped her through out her professional career.
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