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Also Known As LPGA
Date August 1950 - present
Areas Of Involvement golf • professionalism
Related People Babe Didrikson Zaharias • Patty Sheehan • Betty Jameson • Lorena Ochoa • Patty Berg • Annika Sörenstam • Louise Suggs • Kathy Whitworth

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