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Women‘s Major Champions Episodes

Listen to each of our interviews with the women greats of the game who are major championship winners.
June 1, 2023

Joyce Ziske Malison - Part 2 (Winning the 1960 Western Open)

Joyce Ziske Malison looks back on the final years of a relatively short professional career with her highlight being her victory in the 1960 Women's Western Open, then an LPGA major championship, at the Donald Ross-designed B...

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June 1, 2023

Joyce Ziske Malison - Part 1 (The Early Years)

Winner of the 1960 Women's Western Open, Joyce Ziske Malison takes us back to her youth growing up on a farm on the south side of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, living across the street from a driving range. Joyce remembers outdriving...

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May 28, 2023

JoAnne Carner - Part 3 (Solheim Cup Captain and the Senior Women's U.…

Two-time major championship winner JoAnne Carner reflects on the later years of her illustrious career including her 35th Tour win at the 1882 Chevrolet World Championship of Golf that qualified her for the LPGA Hall of Fame....

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May 28, 2023

JoAnne Carner - Part 2 (Winning the 1971 & 1976 Women's U.S. Opens)

World Golf Hall of Fame member JoAnne Carner looks back on her early years on Tour including several of her 43 LPGA titles including the 1969 Burdine's Invitational that she won as an amateur. Professional success came quickl...

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May 28, 2023

JoAnne Carner - Part 1 (The Early Years)

Winner of 8 USGA Championships throughout her brilliant career, JoAnne Carner begins her story growing up in the Northwest and learning the game while working at the little 9-hole public course in town. Offered an honorary m...

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May 25, 2023

Kathy Whitworth - Part 3 (The Later Majors and Career)

The all-time leader in U.S. Tour wins with 88 LPGA victories, Kathy Whitworth takes us down the home stretch of her career from the 1970's forward beginning with her win in the 1971 LPGA Championship at Pleasant Valley CC. H...

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May 25, 2023

Kathy Whitworth - Part 2 (The Early Majors and the 1960's)

Kathy Whitworth, World Golf Hall of Fame member and winner of six major championships, looks back on her early years on tour in the 1960's, a decade that featured 56 of her 88 LPGA victories and four majors. Kathy fondly …

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May 25, 2023

Kathy Whitworth - Part 1 (The Early Years and LPGA History)

World Golf Hall of Fame member and the winningest player on any Tour ever, Kathy Whitworth, begins her remarkable story by sharing how she came to the game of golf at age 15 using her grandfather's clubs and how the …

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May 24, 2023

Martha Nause - Part 2 (The 1994 du Maurier Classic and Perseverance)

Martha Nause relates the story of her finish at the LPGA Sun-Times Shoot-Out in 1991 going birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle to win, but tragically followed months later by the passing of her mother. Martha felt that the stress c...

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May 24, 2023

Martha Nause - Part 1 (The Early Years and First LPGA Win)

Major Championship winner, Martha Nause, takes us back to growing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, learning the game with her four siblings under the watchful eyes of her parents at their local country club. With no high school or...

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May 19, 2023

Susie Maxwell Berning - Part 2 (The Later Years and Three U.S. Open W…

Susie Maxwell Berning, World Golf Hall of Fame member, continues her story by recounting her three wins at the Women's U.S. Open including 1968 and going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. Susie reflects back on the LPGA Founders...

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May 19, 2023

Susie Maxwell Berning - Part 1 (The Early Years and the 1965 Western …

World Golf Hall of Fame member Susie Maxwell Berning begins her story as a young girl raising horses in Oklahoma City. When her young colt Joker got loose and ran through the neighboring golf course, her life changed forever....

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May 18, 2023

Kathy Cornelius - Part 3 (The Later Years)

Major champion Kathy Cornelius relives her later LPGA Tour victories including her last, the 1973 Sealy-Faberge Classic at the Desert Inn where she won in a playoff with Judy Rankin and took home the first prize of $25,000 an...

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May 18, 2023

Kathy Cornelius - Part 2 (The 1956 Women's U.S. Open)

Kathy Cornelius recalls turning professional in 1953 with encouragement from her golf professional husband Bill, joining the LPGA Tour in 1956, just after its formation in 1950. Kathy recounts her early wins including her fir...

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May 18, 2023

Kathy Cornelius - Part 1 (The Early Years)

Winner of the 1956 Women's U.S. Open, Kathy Cornelius takes us back to her childhood days where she had her first golf lesson at age 13. She recalls traveling by auto, with her mother, from FL to NY to compete …

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