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World Golf Hall of Famer Jameson dies at 89
exas golf lost another legend when Betty Jameson
passed away Feb.
7 in Boynton Beach, Fla.
She was 89.
One of the 13...
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World Golf Hall of Famer Jameson dies at 89
exas golf lost another legend when Betty Jameson
passed away Feb.
7 in Boynton Beach, Fla.
She was 89.
One of the 13 women who founded the LPGA in
1950, Jameson won 13 LPGA titles, including three
majors, and is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Her fellow Hall of Famer Carol Mann of The Woodlands
remembered Jameson’s as the best grip she had ever seen.
“To see Betty Jameson’s hand on a golf club…it was worthy
of being cast in iron,” Mann said.
“Hogan helped her, Nelson
helped her.
Every time we were together, I would get a broom
out of the closet and say ‘Betty, here.
Show these people what
your grip looks like.
’”
Jameson was born
in Norman, Okla.
, but
her family soon moved
to Dallas and then San
Antonio.
Jameson took
up the game at age 11,
and two years later
won the Texas State
Publinks title.
Two
years after that, she
captured the
Less
