Kathy Whitworth, winningest golfer ever on a single pro tour, has died at 83.
Kathy Whitworth blasts out of sand trap on 18th green and then sinks a 6-foot putt to take the lead of the Women Titleholders Golf Tournament at Augusta, Ga., on Nov. 25, 1966. The former LPGA Tour player, whose 88 victories are the most by any golfer on a single professional tour, died on Christmas Eve, 2022, her longtime partner said. She was 83.Kathy Whitworth set a benchmark in golf no one has ever touched, whether it was Sam Snead or Tiger Woods, Mickey Wright or Annika Sorenstam.
"Kathy left this world the way she lived her life - loving, laugh and creating memories," Odle said in a statement released by the LPGA Tour. Sorenstam referred to her on Twitter as the LPGA's all-time victory leader and a"total class act" who will be dearly missed.Whitworth was the AP Female Athlete of the Year in 1965 and in 1967, when she easily beat out Wimbledon singles champion Billie Jean King. Whitworth was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1982.
Whitworth was born in Monahans, a small West Texas town, and learned to play golf in New Mexico. She started at age 15 in Jal, New Mexico, on the nine-hole course built for the El Paso Natural Gas employees.
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