:''Betsy King was also a childhood name for
Lizzie Lloyd King
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Betsy King (born August 13, 1955) is an American
professional golfer
A professional golfer is somebody who receives payments or financial rewards in the sport of golf that are directly related to their skill or reputation. A person who earns money by teaching or playing golf is traditionally considered a "golf pr ...
. She became a member of the
LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...
in 1977 and won six
major championships and 34 LPGA Tour victories in all.
Early life, college and amateur career
King was born on born August 13, 1955 in
Reading, Pennsylvania
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. She graduated from Exeter Township High School in 1973. She played collegiately at
Furman University
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, and was on the 1976
national championship team that included future LPGA players
Beth Daniel
Beth Daniel (born October 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1979 and won 33 LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fa ...
,
Sherri Turner
Sherri Turner (born October 4, 1956) is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1984 and won three LPGA Tour events, including one major championship, during her career.
Amateur career
Turner was born in Greenvil ...
and
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. She was low amateur at the 1976
U.S. Women's Open
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.
Professional career
King joined the LPGA Tour in 1977. She won her first tournament at the 1984
Women's Kemper Open The Women's Kemper Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1979 to 1992. It was played at several different courses in California and Hawaii.
Tournament locations
Winners
*1992 Dawn Coe
*1991 Deb Richard
*1990 Beth Daniel
*1989 Betsy Ki ...
. She won three titles in 1984, and added 21 top-10 finishes to earn
LPGA Tour Player of the Year honors. From 1984 through 1989, she won a total of 20 LPGA events, more wins than any other golfer in the world, male or female, during that time period.
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After that first win in 1984, King won at least once each of the next 10 years, with a high of six victories in 1989. She finished in the top-10 on the money list every year from 1985–95, and again in 1997. Along the way, she was named Player of the Year three times, won two scoring titles and three money titles. In 1993, she won a scoring title and the money title, but only one tournament. She finished second five times, including at two majors. She averaged a major a year from 1987 to 1992, then won a sixth major in 1997. The last of her 34 LPGA wins came in 2001. With her 30th win in 1995, she gained entry into the World Golf Hall of Fame
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.
From 1996 to 2004, there was an event on Tour, the Wachovia LPGA Classic
The Wachovia LPGA Classic was an annual women's professional golf tournament on the LPGA Tour that took place at the Berkleigh Country Club in Kutztown, Pennsylvania from 1996 through 2004. Betsy King, LPGA Tour player and native of nearby Reading ...
, hosted by King. She was also a worker for charitable causes, organizing Habitat for Humanity
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house building projects and working in former Soviet bloc countries with orphan relief agencies. She played for the United States in the Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force beh ...
five times (1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998) and was the captain of the 2007 United States team. She led the team to a 16-12 win over Europe in the 2007 Solheim Cup
The 2007 Solheim Cup was the tenth Solheim Cup, held 14–16 September at Halmstad GK in Halmstad, Sweden. It was a three-day contest for professional female golfers, pitting the 12 best players born in the United States against the 12 best p ...
held in Halmstad, Sweden
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between September 14 and 16, 2007.
In 2001, she was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame
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.
Professional wins (39)
LPGA Tour (34)
1Co-sanctioned by the LPGA of Japan Tour
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LPGA Tour playoff record (8–6)
LPGA majors
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are shown in bold.
Ladies European Tour (1)
*1985
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Events January
* January 1
** The Internet's Domain Name System is created.
** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...
Burberry Women's British Open
:''Note: King won the Women's British Open once before it became co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour in 1994 and recognized as a major championship by the LPGA Tour in 2001''
LPGA of Japan Tour (3)
*1981 Ajinomoto-Itsuki Charity Classic
*1992 Mazda Japan Classic
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1
*1993 Toray Japan Queens Cup
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1
1Co-sanctioned by the LPGA Tour
The Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) is an American organization for female golfers. The organization is headquartered at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Florida, and is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekl ...
Legends Tour (1)
*2013
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Fry's Desert Golf Classic (with Jane Crafter
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)
Other (3)
*1990 Itoman LPGA World Match Play Championship
*1993 JCPenney/LPGA Skins Game
Major championships
Wins (6)
1 Won on second extra hole with a par
Results timeline
^ The Women's British Open replaced the du Maurier Classic as an LPGA major in 2001.
CUT = missed the half-way cut.
WD = withdrew
DQ = disqualified
"T" = tied
Summary
*Starts – 106
*Wins – 6
*2nd-place finishes – 4
*3rd-place finishes – 6
*Top 3 finishes – 16
*Top 5 finishes – 24
*Top 10 finishes – 35
*Top 25 finishes – 55
*Missed cuts – 19
*Most consecutive cuts made – 38
*Longest streak of top-10s – 8
Team appearances
Professional
*Solheim Cup
The Solheim Cup is a biennial golf tournament for professional women golfers contested by teams representing Europe and the United States. It is named after the Norwegian-American golf club manufacturer Karsten Solheim, who was a driving force beh ...
(representing the United States): 1990
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(winners), 1992
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, 1994
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(winners), 1996
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(winners), 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
(winners), 2007
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(non-playing captain, winners)
*Handa Cup
The Handa Cup is a series of senior women's golf matches between a United States team and a World Team drawn from players from the rest of the world. It was founded in 2006 and is an event on the LPGA Legends Tour. Since 2013 it has been officially ...
(representing the United States): 2012 (tie, Cup retained), 2013
See also
*List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins
This table lists players with 10 or more wins on the LPGA Tour. It is based on the list on the LPGA Tour's official site, which differs slightly from the main win lists on player's personal profiles on the site. The wins counted here include profes ...
*List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins
This article lists all the women (134) who have won past and present major championships on the LPGA Tour. They are listed in order of the number of victories. The list is updated through the 2022 season.
*Winning span indicates the years from th ...
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American people of Polish descent
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1955 births
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