Hall of Fame golfer Susie Maxwell Berning has died at age 83 after a battle with lung cancer. The LPGA says it lost a great ambassador and a pioneer for women raising children on tour.
PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — Susie Maxwell Berning , the three-time U.S. Women's Open winner who was a pioneer as a mother while competing on the LPGA Tour, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. She was 83.The LPGA said Berning, inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022, died at her home in Palm Springs.“We are saddened by the passing of one of our greats,” LPGA Tour Commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan said in a statement.
She won won three straight state high school titles and became the first female player to receive a golf scholarship to Oklahoma City University, where she played on the men’s team.“Golf has been great to me,” Berning said in 2021 when she was elected to the Hall. “Throughout my golf career, I was able to raise a family, which was icing on the cake. That’s one reason I didn’t play as many years or as many events. But when I did play, I enjoyed it.”Family, including her two daughters, came first.
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