Louise Suggs

One of the original 13 founders of the LPGA and member of the first class elected into the LPGA Hall of Fame, Suggs is a winner of 58 Tour titles and 11 major championships, including three she captured as an amateur player.

Suggs had a brilliant amateur career. She won the Georgia State Amateur Championship in 1940 and 1942. She captured the Southern Amateur Championship in 1941 and 1947 and is a three-time winner of the North/South Championship (1942, 1946, and 1948). Suggs won the 1946 Western Amateur Championship and Western Open and successfully defended both titles the following season. She won the Titleholders in 1946, and in 1947 became the U.S. Women's Amateur champion. In 1948, Suggs added the British Amateur Championship to her resume and topped off her amateur career by representing the United States on the 1948 Curtis Cup Team. She turned professional on July 8, 1948.   She was the first female player to win the career Grand Slam.
Her 1949 U.S. Women's Open victory was a 14-stroke triumph that not only set a 72-hole scoring record of 291, but also set an all-time record for margin of victory that was not equaled until 1986. In 1953, she broke her own 72-hole scoring record by shooting 288 to win the Tampa Open. Suggs was the winner of the 1957 Vare Trophy.  

Born September 7, 1923, Mae Louise Suggs, was nicknamed "Miss Sluggs" by Bob Hope. Suggs served as LPGA president three times and was named an honorary member of the LPGA Teaching and Club Professionals Division in 1993. The 1995 LPGA Championship was dedicated in her honor. In 1996 she became the first woman elected to the Georgia Athletic Hall of Fame.  In 2000, the LPGA created the Louise Suggs Award to recognize the Rookie of the Year.  Suggs currently resides in St. Augustine, Florida.

Major Victories
•1949:U.S. Women’s Open, Western Open
•1951:U.S. Women’s Open
•1953:Western Open
•1954:Titleholders Championship
•1956:Titleholders Championship
•1957:LPGA Championship
•1959:Titleholders Championship