Marlene Hagge
Name:
Marlene Hagge (née Bauer)Country:
USABorn:
Feb 16, 1934 in Eureka, South Dakota.Original/Home Club:
Occupation:
Professional golfer; golf instructor; one of 13 founders of the LPGA (1950).Turned Pro:
1950MAJORS (1): US LPGA Championship (1956). LPGA Tour wins (26). US LPGA leading money winner (1956). World Golf Hall of Fame (inducted in 2002).
After a highly successful career as an amateur golfer, Marlene Bauer turned professional in 1950. In that same year she became the youngest of 13 women who founded the LPGA. Her older sister, Alice Bauer, was also a founder.
In 1955 Marlene married Bob Hagge, the man her sister Alice had divorced earlier that year. Marlene and Bob divorced in 1964. Bob Hagge, who had been a club pro, subsequently changed his name to Robert von Hagge, and became a leading golf course designer.
From 1995 until his death in 2013, Hagge was married to former PGA Tour golfer Ernie Vossler.
America
Burdine's
Played as Burdine's Invitational. Second-placed Sandra Palmer (USA) and Kathy Ahren (USA) finished 4 shots behind Hagge (USA, née Bauer), who recorded the last of her 26 LPGA Tour wins. [Red course, Trump Natl Doral Resort, Miami, FL].
America
Stroh's
Played as Stroh's WBLY Open. Carol Mann (USA) finished 4 shots behind Hagge (USA). [Northwood Hills, Springfield, Ohio].
Played as the Babe Zaharias Open. Clifford Ann Creed and Carol Mann finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the LPGA Tall City Open. Kathy Whitworth finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the Milwaukee Open. Judy Torluemke finished in second place behind Hagge.
America
Alamo
Played as the Alamo Ladies Open. Carol Mann (USA) and defending champion Kathy Whitworth (USA) finished in second place behind Hagge (USA). [Pecan Valley GC, San Antonio, Texas. This course is now closed].
Played as the Phoenix Thunderbirds Ladies Open. Judy Torluemke finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the Mickey Wright Invitational. Sandra Haynie finished in second place behind Hagge.
America
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Played as the Sight Open. Second-placed Mickey Wright (USA) finished 9 shots behind Hagge (USA, née Bauer). [Turf Valley CC, Ellicott City, Maryland].
Played as the Hoosier Open. Patty Berg and Bonnie Randolph finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the Mayfair Open. Patty Berg and Beverly Hanson finished in second place behind Hagge.
America
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Played as the Land of the Sky Open. Hagge (USA) beat Jo Ann Prentice (USA) with a six-foot, birdie-3 putt at the first playoff hole. [CC of Asheville, Asheville, North Carolina].
Played as the Lake Worth Open Invitational. Fay Crocker and Patty Berg finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the Lawton Open. Betsy Rawls finished in second place behind Hagge.
Played as the Babe Zaharias Open. Betty Dodd finished in second place behind Hagge.
Majors
LPGA
The LPGA Championship (2nd) (June 21-24). 22-year-old Marlene Hagge (USA, née Bauer) beat Patty Berg (USA) with a par at the first sudden-death playoff hole. Hagge recorded her first and only major championship win. [Forest Lake CC, Bloomfield Hills, Detroit, Mich.].
Played as the Triangle Round Robin. Joyce Ziske finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
America
George S. May
Played as the World Championship of Women's Golf. Betty Jameson (USA) finished 1 shot behind 22-year-old Marlene Hagge (USA; née Bauer). [Tam O'Shanter CC, Niles, nr Chicago, IL. Now the municipal Tam O'Shanter Golf Course].
Awards
LPGA Tr
Hagge (USA) won the LPGA Tour 1956 Money List, with earnings of $20,235 on the Tour. Patty Berg (USA) was second on the money list.
Played as the Denver Open. Fay Crocker finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the Pittsburgh Open. Alice Bauer finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the Sea Island Open. Mary Lena Faulk and Joyce Ziske finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the Clock Open. Joyce Zinske finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the Babe Zaharias Open. Louise Suggs finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the New Orleans Open. Second-placed Betty Jameson finished 1 shot behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Played as the Sarasota Open. Betsy Rawls, Louise Suggs and Babe Zaharias finished in second place behind Marlene Bauer (Hagge).
Amateur
USGA
Played as the inaugural U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Marlene Bauer (USA, married name Hagge) beat Barbara Bruning (USA) by 2 holes in the final. [Bala course, Philadelphia CC, Gladwyne, nr Philadelphia, PA].
Tournaments:
Women’s major championships: the month of June sees two women’s majors: the US Women’s Open (June 3-6), with A Lim Kim defending, and the Women’s PGA Championship (June 24-27), with Sei Young Kim defending.
Senior PGA Championship: the revered Southern Hills in Oklahoma hosts the 81st staging of this event (May 27-30); Ken Tanigawa holds the title from its last playing in 2019.
Who's Who:
Phil Mickelson: in winning the 2021 PGA Championship, the world’s most famous “leftie” became the oldest winner of a golf major championship.
Hideki Matsuyama: became the first Japanese professional to win a men’s major championship, when he triumphed in this year’s Masters Tournament.
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Gamble Sands opens short course:
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