Sandra Post - Part 2 (The 1968 LPGA Championship)
Major Championship winner Sandra Post started her professional career in style as the first Canadian to play on the LPGA Tour. Her inaugural win was the 1968 LPGA Championship in a playoff over Kathy Whitworth. Her play that year earned her Rookie of the Year honors. Listen in as Sandra describes traveling the U.S. with her roommate Renee Powell and hear about the hardships Renee and Althea Gibson endured on Tour. She found winning to be difficult in those early years but still managed 8 wins and 20 second-place finishes on tour. Sandra recounts her two wins in the Dinah Shore before it was considered to be a major. Sandra Post continues her life story, “FORE the Good of the Game.”
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Post, Sandra
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Sandra Post is a Canadian golfer who had success on the LPGA Tour from the late 1960s into the early 1980s. In fact, she set two tour records that weren't broken for decades.
Significant Wins by Sandra Post
These are the eight LPGA Tour events won by Post:
1968 LPGA Championship
1978 Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
1979 Lady Stroh's Open
1979 Colgate-Dinah Shore Winner's Circle
1979 Lady Michelob
1979 ERA Real Estate Classic
1980 West Virginia LPGA Classic
1981 McDonald's Kids Classic
Post also won the Colgate Far East Open in 1974. That tournament was an LPGA event in some years of the 1970s, but in the year Post won it was classified as an unofficial money event.
Here's something of note: In seven of Post's eight LPGA wins, the runner-up was a future World Golf Hall of Fame member.
Post in the Major Championships
Post had one win in an LPGA major, the 1968 LPGA Championship (the tournament now called the Women's PGA Championship). She won that title by beating Kathy Whitworth in an 18-hole playoff, 68 to 75.
She also won twice in the tournament now known as the ANA Championship, which is a major. However, when Post won it in 1978 and 1979, it was not classified a major by the tour at that point.
The LPGA Records Set by Post
Post established two all-time LPGA records, both of which stood for decades before eventually being broken.
When she won the 1968 LPGA Championship, Post was 20 years, 11 days old. That made her the youngest golfer ev…
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