:''Betsy King was also a childhood name for

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.'' Betsy King (born August 13, 1955) is an American

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. She became a member of the

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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

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. She graduated from Exeter Township High School in 1973. She played collegiately at

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, and was on the 1976 national championship team that included future LPGA players

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and

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. She was low amateur at the 1976

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Professional career

King joined the LPGA Tour in 1977. She won her first tournament at the 1984

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. 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.Betsy King at about.com
/ref> 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

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. From 1996 to 2004, there was an event on Tour, the

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, hosted by King. She was also a worker for charitable causes, organizing

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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

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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

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held in

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between September 14 and 16, 2007. In 2001, she was inducted into the

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Professional wins (39)

LPGA Tour (34)

¹Co-sanctioned by the

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LPGA Tour playoff record (8–6) LPGA

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are shown in bold.

Ladies European Tour (1)

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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

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¹ *1993

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¹ ¹Co-sanctioned by the

Legends Tour (1)

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Fry's Desert Golf Classic (with

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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 *

(representing the United States):

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

(winners),

1992 File:1992 Events Collage V1.png, From left, clockwise: 1992 Los Angeles riots, Riots break out across Los Angeles, California after the Police brutality, police beating of Rodney King; El Al Flight 1862 crashes into a residential apartment buildi ...

1994 File:1994 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1994 Winter Olympics are held in Lillehammer, Norway; The Kaiser Permanente building after the 1994 Northridge earthquake; A model of the MS Estonia, which Sinking of the MS Estonia, sank in ...

(winners),

1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

(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 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

(non-playing captain, winners) *

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(representing the United States): 2012 (tie, Cup retained), 2013

References

External links

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Early life, college and amateur career

Professional career

Professional wins (39)

LPGA Tour (34)

Ladies European Tour (1)

LPGA of Japan Tour (3)

Legends Tour (1)

Other (3)

Major championships

Wins (6)

Results timeline

Summary

Team appearances

See also

References

External links