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Yes I can, that was my attitude.

If you told me I couldn't do something

I could show you I can do it.

A lot of people are like lemmings.

I mean like they'll blindly follow.

And sometimes one gets out of the pack.

And that's always scary
to the other lemmings.

Because it may prove that
maybe they were wrong.

Thank god for the ones
that go out and you know,

break away sometimes.

They had dreams.

They had the courage.

They wanted it.

It was a strong group of ladies.

They paved the way for the future.

Having some fun with
all our golfing friends.

They were pioneers in
really women's sport,

not just golf.

Really was the forerunner
of all of women's sports.

Did it
feel like a sacrifice ever?

No, you never think it's a sacrifice.

It's something you wanna do.

Never.

Good question.

The obstacles that they overcame

just in a male dominated
world at that time

where women were supposed
to be in their houses

cooking and cleaning and raising children.

They were really, truly pioneers.

And we worked hard.

We didn't anticipate that what
would happen has happened.

The founders, you
know, they're the reason

that I'm able to do what I'm doing today.

Tell me
how do you feel about that,

that you made this happen?

13 women, 13 women getting together

to form such an organization.

They had to be brave.

They had to be brave,
they had to be confident

and they had to have passion.

When she called me, whatever it was,

you were gonna do this.

I said well you all better hurry

because there's only four of us left.

Yeah, out of 13.

♪ Little girl, little girl

♪ With all those pretty pretty eyes

♪ Little girl, little girl

♪ You got those pretty, pretty eyes

♪ With a dimple in your cheek

♪ And the devil within

♪ Now you're just my heart and soul

♪ Little girl, little girl

♪ Well then you do me like you do

♪ Little girl, little girl

♪ Well then you thrill me like you do

♪ Is it your itty bitty walk

♪ Squeaky squeaky talk

♪ That made me fall for you

♪ Little girl, little girl

♪ Want to let go you have a fire

I collect ducks.

I have 200 ducks at
home of every substance

that ever was produced in a duck.

I think Shirley is a great gal.

She's got the right thing.

Her heart beats the right way.

She really says it like
it is, you know what I mean?

She's very outspoken and opinionated.

She's very smart.

She's priceless.

In the neighborhood, the kids, the boys

caddied and on Monday they could play

on the golf course free.

And they said if I had a golf club

I could go play with them.

I was 11 years old and
I found some golf balls.

And I sold them back to the golfers.

And get on a street car and went down

to the city of Detroit to
find a golf club for a dollar.

And I went to Griswold
sporting goods store.

And they had a big barrel of clubs.

And there were tall ones, short ones,

bent ones, wooden ones.

I didn't know one from the other

and I found one that was kind
of short and kind of straight.

So I brought it home, showed the caddies.

And I said I got my club,
I could go on Monday

and play with you.

And they all laughed at me.

Because it was a putter.

And the putter's the last club you use

to win or lose the tournament.

So I started at the end
and I'm trying to get

to the beginning.

I'm just an ordinary person

that's lived an ordinary life.

Do you think about it?

No, I never think about it.

Here's the picture.

You gotta get this picture.

Look at that one, can you
get that in your story?

Marilynn is so nice

that all through our years on tour,

I used to thought she was fake.

Nobody could be that nice.

But I found out since then
she really is that way.

She would ask the guy pumping gas

what his name was, where he lived,

how many people he had.

And he had a bad, beat
up old pair of shoes

and she'd give him 20 bucks.

You rarely see somebody
that really thinks

there is a Santa Claus.

Because that was, that
was, oh shicklegruber.

Well, when I was 10,
11 and 12 years of age,

I was the pitcher, the
coach and the manager

of a boy's baseball
team in Wichita, Kansas.

And I came home from pitching one day

when I was 12.

And my mother said,
how'd you do today, dear?

And I took my mitt and I
threw it against the wall

and I said, oh a four letter
word beginning with S.

Well she marched me into the lavatory

and washed my mouth
out with Lifebuoy soap.

And when my dad came home,
she told him what I had said.

And he said, we better
take you out to the Wichita

Country Club in Wichita, Kansas

and teach her a more ladylike sport.

So a bad word actually
got me going in to golf.

You don't beat me unless you beat me.

It's just the way I was is the way I was

and the way I am.

I'm still that way today even at my age.

She was a competitor.

A very kind person if you knew her.

Honest, sincere,
has all the right values.

She had a dog named Dammit.

But she stayed within
herself, Louise, yeah.

Well the first set of
clubs I got, ever had,

were wooden shafts that dad had,

from a shop, old clubs that
were stuck in a barrel.

He sawed them off to suit me

and he used bicycle tape for grips.

Now I remember him saw me wrap a club

around the pine tree one time.

And he said sis, when
you learn to be a lady

on the golf course, you
can have your clubs back

when you come apologize.

About a week later I went and,

sorry Dad, I won't do that again.

And I never did.

They're
gonna ask you questions

but try to just look at me.

Okay.

- When you answer.
- Okay.

We want to keep you looking right.

I'll pretend you're a ventriloquist.

When they ask the question

I'll just open my mouth.

Okay.

She's a good kid.

I like Marlene, always
have and always will.

She was a good putter.

Good competitor.

She and her sister, you
know, were quite the stars

on the LPGA circuit.

My father, he wanted two young boys

because he saw the future of golf.

And he got two little runt girls.

He wanted to teach us the skill

that could earn us some money

and get us out of Eureka
out of the gutter.

He started me at three and a half,

put a golf club in my hand.

Have you seen this?

What's that?

Have you seen this?

This is my, this is me, this is my sister,

my father and my mother.

Life knows and they wanted to

because we were the, you know,

at that time I held all the records

for the youngest to ever
do something or other.

They put
a doll in this outfit.

Well I think they wanted to point out

that at 13 I should be playing with dolls

instead of trying to start a golf career.

I never played with dolls.

I was too busy.

That was the way they set it up.

I was the youngest player.

My sister was probably the next youngest.

She was six and a half years older than I.

So she would have been 14.

There was never any jealousy.

She probably rooted for me

more than she rooted for herself.

I played in the South
Coat State Championship

when I was seven.

That same year in the next year

I played in the Women's
Western Open in Chicago.

I was kind of an oddity.

Or we both were.

She was a show person.

She knew she was good and she
told everybody she was good.

And I'm here and I'm gonna win.

She's a real cut up, she's a jokester.

She's a good person.

Courage, strength, winner.

She didn't care what
she did or how she did it.

She did it.

That was Babe.

Babe's a Harrises Woman
from Beaumont Texas.

Her father was a carpenter, large family,

had kind of a struggle getting along.

There was a series of
hedges in her neighborhood,

one right after another.

And she would hurdle over the hedges.

Babe
Didrikson leads the world

as champion girl lasses.

This shows her victory,

She even performed in
Vaudeville playing a harmonica.

Anything to do to make the little money.

She always wanted to win.

She wanted to be the best.

And she went to great lengths to do that.

♪ You better run

♪ Hey you better run

♪ You better run child

♪ Yeah you better run

I think back about, oh my
god into the game of golf

when I was in grade school

and I looked at the
encyclopedia under sports

and there was a name
there, Babe Didrikson.

And Babe Didrikson did everything.

And in '32 in the Olympics she won medals.

I'm awfully glad to
have been able to set

this new hurdle mark

and hope to do some
better some other time.

♪ You better run

And then she did other
sports, all kind of sports

so I thought, gee, look at this.

She did all those things.

After winning in the Olympics,

she found that there
was nothing to play in.

It was very frustrating to her

because here she was,
probably the greatest

woman athlete of all time

and she couldn't make a
living doing it really.

There were no professional
sports leagues for women.

When I went to college at
the University of Kansas,

there was no girls golf team.

But my dad went to Fog Allen,

the director of athletics to ask

if he could get some expense money

for his daughter to play in the National

Inter-Collegiate Golf Tournament

which is gonna be in Ohio State.

His reply was, "Mr. Smith it's too bad

"your daughter is not a boy."

There's a boy's Junior Championship.

They wouldn't let me play in it at first

and then the paper, the
media got on them so bad

that they were forced to let me play.

There was this boy.

I thought he was really cool, he was 15.

And so I beat him in the finals

and he just never spoke to
me again for a long while.

Thank you very much
but, you know Howard?

I taught Bud how to play football.

Is that right?

Yeah we played for
the 50th Street Tigers.

Where was that, Patty?

Minneapolis, Minnesota.

What did you play?

I played quarterback
and he played tackle.

Well Patty I know that
the people are interested

in how you hit those golf shots.

And for many years you've been known

as one of America's greatest putters.

Patty Berg was women's golf

but in my day, I mean I,

that's all you'd heard about.

Patty Berg
who has won them all

drives in one of the biggest,

1941 we had National Amateur
at Brookland Massachusetts.

And Patty being a
professional was not allowed

in the clubhouse.

Believe it or not.

Won at the 1941 and 43 open.

Patty cuts that lead to one hole.

Golf was a rich man's game.

In that era, it couldn't compete

unless you belong to an
organization or a private club.

It was very closed.

A new clubhouse
has recently been completed.

And for the enjoyment of golf,

In those days it was
kind of a class thing.

We were from the wrong side of the tracks.

The only openings for
competition in that era

was to have enough money to
drive to Florida in the winter

and play in private invitational events

which Marilynn and I never
had that opportunity.

Of course then
during the war years,

everything changed.

Oh I remember where I was.

Where?

Playing kick the can with
the boys out in the street.

And I can see my dad coming out the door

and said we've been
attacked by the Japanese.

So we just went back
and played kick the can.

You know, it didn't mean much.

But my mother was born in Germany.

And somehow the people in
the neighborhood knew that

and they would throw rocks at her window.

We coined
a few personal opinions

on a timely question, should
sports be discontinued

for the duration,

During World War II, there
were no tournaments, period.

Men or women or, there was no baseball.

Nothing went on during World
War II in competitions.

The importance of sports

has been challenged.

The men were in the military.

Women were expected to take
over the jobs over here.

During the war,
we had service station

in the draft, all the young men were gone.

So they hired women to work
in the service station.

In those days, they checked the oil,

washed the windshield,
checked the air in the tire

and stand me out.

I worked for those oil
corporations for eight years.

And I put a tire iron behind my front seat

when I have to go check on these stations

and see everything was
going on, believe me.

My teeth chattered a couple times.

When women began to respond.

Convinced they could do factory work

or anything within their strength

that men could do for Uncle Sam.

Women took up the slack.

Was it the riveting, what not.

Winner one up,
Patty takes over the custody

of the Western Open
Crown for the second time

in three years.

A grand uphill fight climaxed by a triumph

which for thrills is exceeded only

by this greater moment as she signs up

with the Women's Reserve
Corps of the US Marines

and promptly models her next new hat.

We hasten to admit Patty,
on you it looks good.

Betty Hicks served in the US Coast Guard

as a public relations officer.

Betty Jameson took a job
with the Army Air Corps

in San Antonio driving trucks.

Helen Dettweiler was a member of the WASP,

Women's Air Service Pilots.

And she actually flew B-17 bombers

over to England from the United States

to drop them off for the
US Men's Military to fly.

Women were taking part in the war.

And these were all great golfers.

They couldn't just leave
their job as a member

of the military to play
in golf tournaments.

Well, in World War
II, they weren't allowed

to make golf clubs.

They weren't allowed to make golf balls

because they're made out
of rubber or (mumbling).

Until the war was over,
there were no new golf balls.

When the war ended,
the Federal Government

and Industry in America were concerned

about returning men to the jobs that women

had held during the war.

Women had carried a lot of the work burden

in the United States.

Now the men come home and
they want to get the men

back in those jobs.

It was that feeling behind it
that I want to do something

other than teach school or be a secretary

or be a wife and mother.

I'm ready for my life to begin.

I want to have some adventure.

Babe
Zaharias, a famous athlete,

tees off in the All- American
championship at Chicago.

We very seldom ever had tournaments

where it was a mixed tournament,

where men and women played together.

That was a real, real big thing

because George Esme allowed men amateurs,

men pros, men, lady pros, lady amateurs,

celebrities, everybody could play.

It was like a circus.

The sun came up and you started playing.

At the end of the day
they didn't get finished.

You went the next morning and you played.

He brought the public interest
into the game of golf.

Chicago's annual
Tam O'Shanter golf tournament.

As Byron Nelson,

You actually had men like Byron Nelson.

And they were great golfers

and they were great names too.

And you were putting people out there

whom everybody knew.

And that was fantastic golf.

The men were objecting
to have equal pay.

Betty Hicks won the World Open.

Byron Nelson won the men's division.

Touch and wins.

This years Tam O'Shanter
is worth a cool $10,000.

Oh what winning.

Betty Hicks gets $500.

That was the catalyst for forming

the Women's Professional Golf Association.

The WPGA was set up by Ellen Griffin

and Hope Seignious.

Then on the West Coast,
there was Helen Dettweiler

and Betty Hicks.

Hope Seignious and her
father owned a Gin Mill.

He's the one that put the
money up for tournaments

so they could play.

Hope Seignious had money.

Ellen Griffin had determination
and stick-to-itiveness.

And they formed it so
that they could bargain

with sponsors like George Esme

and try to equalize the
purses a little bit.

So that was in 1944.

I think it was incredibly difficult

because you had letters
flying back and forth.

And it was really difficult for them

to get anything off the ground.

And they did get a few
tournaments off the ground.

Finally had six tournaments.

They had the Women's Western Open.

They had Women's Texas Open.

And the US Women's Open.

The Hardscrabble Invitational in Arkansas.

The Tampa Women's Open.

There was a Title Holders
in Augusta Georgia

in Augusta Country Club
which was considered

the women's version of the Masters.

They had their first US Women's Open.

Showing the form that won

the 1941 and 1943 Open,

It's a match play event.

It was a grueling contest.

They played about 36 holes a day.

And Patty finally won that.

I thought gee that'll be great.

As soon as I get out of high school,

I'm gonna join the WPGA.

Well the WPGA fizzle dizzled out.

Geographically, you know,

it was too difficult for them to organize.

And I think there was
quite a lot of dissent

between what they should do.

In 1948, the WPGA
just sort of fell apart.

It's because the women
didn't want to do the work

according to Betty Hicks.

Yeah I wouldn't agree with that.

I think they wanted to do the work.

I just think they found it too difficult

to agree on what the work was.

They didn't want to do
all the housekeeping it took

to run these championships.

It just started to crumble.

They did have disagreements

as any lot of people will.

But I don't think it was a lack of trying.

It's very simple.

They didn't have the money.

But they were, they were amazing

pioneer women, those women.

The Women's Amateur golf
has always done very well.

I think Women's Professional golf

was regarded very differently.

For women to even become
professional golfers,

people didn't like athletic women.

You know, women weren't
supposed to do that.

We're playing the Women's Western Open

in Skycrest Country
Club in the Chicago area

in June of 1949.

And we're sitting eating
breakfast with Babe

and Babe looked at me and she said,

listen kid, why don't you turn pro?

So I said , well Babe, how do you do that?

And she stood up, walked around the table

and put her hand on my head just plunk.

I almost bit my tongue off.

Plunk, she said I pronounce you a pro.

Go down there on the tee

and tell them you're a pro.

Yeah an amateur never has prize money.

There's no prize money.

You get silverware.

If you took money, you
were a professional.

It seems from looking here

that Louise had quite an amateur career.

She sort of ruled the
roost of amateur golf

on both the US side as well
as over in the United Kingdom.

When I won the British,

it was the epitome of my
amateur career, you might say.

There was nothing else left

that I was eligible to play in to win.

There were women who
wanted to be professionals

and there was nothing for them to play in.

I mean you could not make money

as a professional because
there weren't any tournaments.

We were all of one mind

that we wanted a place for women

to do something they love
and make a living out of.

Well maybe it was
because we were just dumb

or stupid or something.

We just wanted to play golf

1948, Elby Isley of
Wilson Sporting Goods

got in touch with Fred Corcoran.

Now Fred had been tournament
director for the PGA tour.

He was an agent.

He had great clients.

He had Ted Williams, he had Sam Snead.

So he had Babe Zaharias.

And she was the
personality who came along

and made it possible.

Whatever Babe was doing,
then people were interested

whether she won or lost.

If she lost, she was the headlines

which the other women found difficult.

The Fabulous Babe Didrikson

is the apple of the gallery's eye

as she turns in a fine performance

over the grueling 72 holes.

Here she makes a smooth approach.

You had wonderful women golfers.

I mean Patty Berg and
Louise Suggs were probably

both finer golfers.

Patty Berg
is making a strong finish.

Miss Suggs is holding off.

That's enough to make
any challenger realize

she's up against the toughest competition

in women's golf.

Babe just had so much
more in terms of hitting

the golf ball.

I mean she just hit the
golf ball so much further

than anybody else.

Because Babe was probably
more like a man playing golf,

people wanted to watch her.

Well she went to Wilson's Sporting Goods

and said I want a tour
and I want to be able

to play against other competitors.

She convinced Mr. Isley who
was president of Wilson,

and Spalding and Mcgregor
to hire Fred Corcoran.

He wanted to further promote
sporting goods equipment.

So it would put the
name of those golf clubs

after those big staff bags
that would say Patty Berg,

Wilson on the side.

In front of spectators.

They had a meeting at the
Venetian Hotel in 1949

with Patty Berg, Babe and George
Zaharias and Fred Corcoran.

And they decided they
would really turn the WPGA

into the LPGA.

When we became the LPGA in 1950,

at Rolling Hills Country
Club in Wichita Kansas,

I was 15.

It was more than money.

We wanted the world to
recognize that women

can be great golfers.

Remarkable that those women
got that off the ground.

We were the
group like a carnival.

'Cause we went from town to town to town.

We did the whole thing ourselves.

We had physical struggles

because we had to drive so far.

One of our trips was 1600 miles

from Spokane Washington to Waterloo.

That took almost two days.

We didn't have cell phones.

We had pingpong paddles.

One was yellow, one was red, one was green

and we'd wave it out the window.

The food was green, yellow was pee

and red was gas.

And if we saw a cop car behind a signboard

we'd blink our lights so
that the people behind us

would know that there's a cop.

You know, we'd usually
caravan from place to place

with three or four cars.

And Louise used to
caravan sometimes with me.

And you know how she talks, she'd say,

oh slow down, I don't
like to go as fast as you.

And you could well imagine
what went on from there.

Well Marlene Hagge was driving my car.

And all of a sudden she
slammed on the brakes

and we skidded sideways
up to this 18 wheeler

and when I looked up, we had slid

directly under the trailer.

I said, get out, I'm driving.

I don't care how sleepy I am.

I'm a better driver sleepy
than you are awake supposedly.

There were no Interstates.

We used to go through
all the little towns.

The whole city turned out
for our little tournament.

Well we checked
in of course into the motel

or the hotel.

Some of us would speak at
a Quanas or Lions luncheon

to promote the tour.

Of course we had our hair done.

We'd go to the local ball games

and hit shots from home plate.

And under lights, hitting the
golf ball with an eight iron

looks like you're knocking 10,000 miles.

We went to
the local radio station.

We had posters, we
stopped at all the stores.

Can we put this in your window?

People like that were so supportive.

This one tournament, we had 19 players

but we only paid 18 people.

So what did the people in Waterloo do?

They passed a hat to around to the people

and they got a hundred
dollars for the last place.

Gives me goosebumps to think about.

Marilynn Smith,
one of the tour's most popular

young ladies shows why she is also,

We were really good in
that type of atmosphere.

When you put us in a big city, no.

Uh-uh.

It wasn't time yet.

The tour back in those early days,

it was like a big family.

The nation's distaff swingers

arrived early to get a little practice

before teeing off on the final round

of this 72 hole tournament.

We would go to a club and give a hour

demonstration clinic showing how people

did things incorrectly.

And then we'd show them
how to do it correctly.

And then we would play
nine holes with a pro,

the ladies champion, the men's champion.

And as we played the
hole, we would explain

how we were approaching the shot.

So we were teaching them
a learning experience.

Here we are, a slice from left to right,

putting the visor in slicing position.

You can see how important the visor is

Place the club on the outside of the line.

Hitting the ball now from left to right.

The more people we
got involved in playing,

the more spectators would want
to come and watch us perform.

When we had these tournaments,

they would have an
evening for us to dress up

and come to the club and meet
the people, the sponsors.

I walked to so many cocktail
parties, I can't tell you.

And I don't drink.

I could make a drink
last till the ice melted.

♪ Baby don't know the
lengths that I would go to

Inside the clubhouse, we
would model these clothes

for the people.

That was another way of publicizing

that we were feminine too.

We could dress up too.

Some didn't want to do it.

In fact we got to the point sometimes

where we had to find
them if they didn't go.

So, and we did.

So the women professionals
had to talk to all these people

and that certainly wouldn't
have suited Louise.

In anything you do where
you rely on the public

to pay your way, you have
to treat people nicely.

You have to have grace.

You have to not be a hothead.

Come on out here.

Looky here, looky here.

You're Alice?

That's right.

And you're?

- Marlene.
- Marlene.

Sooner I let you folks, if you know,

this is really something, Don.

Not only are these, do
they look like athletes

and yet they're beautiful.

You bet.

Just beautiful.

And you slug these golf balls?

How much do you weigh?

I weight 120.

120?

Yeah.

And you?

I weigh 106.

With all my clothes on.

In television, it has to be that way.

We played the National Open one time

in Wingfoot in New York.

And so Alice and I had
to go buy some skirts.

Because slacks were not accepted.

Women's golfers couldn't play, wear slacks

on the golf course 'cause
they look too masculine,

I don't know.

With more
and more attractive pros,

a lot of men are beginning to realize

that the ladies pro tour offers a lot more

to attract galleries than just good golf.

It is a fact however,
that competitive athletics

are tend to destroy all that
is, are natural in women

and all that which tends to
make them attractive to men.

Babe was quite aware of the fact

that she needed to become more ladylike

to become more acceptable.

People didn't like athletic women.

I think they still find it hard and all.

Through the decades they find it hard

to deal with athletic women.

Getting sponsorship
was the hardest thing.

We depended on the Lion's
Club, the Sipitan Group.

And they would have us
come there as an attraction

so they would make money.

And they would put up a price,

the first 25, 30 years all we did is

go from spot a to b to c.

Whoever would put up the
money for us to play for.

Players ran the tour.

There was no paid staff.

We had a treasurer who gave
out the money, you know

at the end of the tournament.

And then we had a tournament
committee who went out

and set up the golf courses.

Line off certain areas and did all that.

We had a parriance committee.

And then we had someone that called up

after the tournament to Associated Press

to give the scores.

It was just
a put together thing.

We didn't get much press, honey.

If we got any press,
it was on the back page

and it always misspelled my name.

My name has two ns on Marilynn.

And they didn't believe it.

They always chopped that off.

As a professional, we played a course.

And I looked down the fairway and well,

where's the grass?

And I thought what in
the hell have I done?

The kind of golf courses
we played on the most days

were certainly not like they are today.

Right now some fairways are better

than most of the greens we played.

We played steel shafts, wooden heads.

We only had one wedge.

We could play a tune with our wedge.

We played courses much longer

than what they play today.

Courses that were brand new,

and we were kind of a guinea
pig before the men came.

Then another course we played in at 1950

was a 60 mile an hour wind.

And I was paired with Louise Suggs

and Shirley Spork.

Shirley was gonna take a three wood shot

and hit the ball.

Well the wind blew her off balance

and she missed the ball.

Well we went, just laughed and thought

that was so funny, you know.

Well Louise plugged along and she had a 78

which was one of the best rounds of golf

in a 60 mile an hour wind.

♪ There's a light in
my life shining on you

The only way I know how to describe it

is you just took what you could get.

♪ There's a light in my
life shining over me yeah

♪ That your blessings from above fill me

They were playing for their next meal.

For the next place they were gonna stay.

They were playing for the love of it

but they're also playing to make it a job.

Well we were supposed to
be married and in the house

and taking care of children.

And it wasn't a norm to have a
woman out on the golf course.

♪ My friends are gone yeah

♪ But if I put my trust in Jesus

♪ My burdens will light up

We overcame it.

We just didn't pay any attention to that.

♪ In my life shining over me

Well anything in those days
in a skirt that was skinny,

halfway combed hair and stuff.

They whistle at.

They didn't know quite how to take us.

'Cause it was normal for
a man to be an athlete.

It wasn't normal for a
woman to be an athlete.

Like why would you want to do this?

It was all right to
play for a silver pot.

I think when you became a professional,

that was regarded as really different.

And to play for money
wasn't nice as a woman.

Generally speaking, men have a hard time

accepting a female athlete.

If a woman could hit the
pin with the same club

that a man uses, she'd
beat him every time.

'Cause I was jumped on, like,

you can imagine hot by
the press for saying that.

But that's what I believed.

Louise was the first
woman to play against men

at a professional level.

Louise managed to win it.

She said that that particular day,

playing from the same tees with the men,

after the 54 hole competition had ended,

she was the winner.

As she was walking out of the
event, in the parking lot,

she saw Sam Snead and he was sort of gruff

and head down and walking away

and then he kind of turned back and had

a few curt remarks.

And Louise took great
pleasure saying to Sam,

Sam, I don't know what the
hell you were bitching about

because you weren't even second.

So but, he scratched out of there

and left about half a ton
of rubber on the cement.

Louise Suggs and I
were paired in a twosome.

And I hooked the ball into the left rough.

And I said, Louise, this isn't my ball.

And she said oh my God.

I was assessed a shot
for every shot you hit

with the wrong ball.

She was really militant about doing things

the right way and everything.

She said, Marlene, I want to tell you.

She said I don't know if
anyone else would have done

what you did because nobody
would have ever known.

And that meant so much to me.

That was a better gift than
winning the tournament really

to have somebody like Louise say that.

On the course, I had no friends.

Anybody that I played was an enemy.

Made no difference who it was.

And by nature, competitive nature to win.

Well Louise has probably
told you about her,

The Babe, hasn't she?

Yeah.

So I won't go into that.

Babe not only was self-promoting.

She was all-consuming
of the space around her.

That didn't sit too well with Louise.

I was paired with her to qualify

for the Western Amateur in Indianapolis.

Changed shoes, she came in and I got up,

walked over and I said,

Mrs. Zaharas, I'd like
to introduce myself.

We're paired together today.

And she looked at me up and down and said,

well, so what?

Well that was a beginning
of a beautiful friendship,

I might add.

Louise Suggs was a gem

so far as golf swing is concerned.

But the personality was Babe.

And Louise didn't have that personality.

Found it terribly difficult to project.

They were very
different personalities.

Babe Zaharias was a
showoff, very outgoing.

Louise Suggs is very reserved.

Louise just
wanted to do her thing

and win and quietly.

And Patty Berg was
always able to project

but you know, Babe just had so much more

in terms of hitting the golf ball.

I mean she just hit the
golf ball so much further

than everybody else.

And was so athletic.

I mean you couldn't ever
describe Patty Berg as athletic.

She was a great golfer.

But she wasn't athletic and Babe was.

Had it not been for her,

the LPGA probably wouldn't have started

for another decade.

She went in the locker room one time

and she said, all right you girls,

I need to make more money than you do

because I am the star.

Babe Didrikson
Zaharias and Patty Berg,

And Patty cornered
her afterwards and said

Babe you may be the star, but every star's

gotta have a chorus line.

The world's
leading woman athlete

teeing off in the final
round with a three hole lead.

But the sturdy Minneapolis
red head is right after her

in a thrilling homestretch battle

at Chicago Skycrest Course.

Showing the form that won
her the 1941 and 43 Open,

Patty cuts that lead to one hole

with sharpshooting like this.

The Babe isn't missing them either.

Quite a ding-dong affair.

At the end of the regular 36 holes,

the girls were all even.

It was shots like this that helped Patty

square the match with a
highly favored Mrs. Zaharias

carrying the play into
a hectic overtime duel.

Patty copped the cup
with her putt on the 37th

to win the Western Open for the third time

equaling the Babe's
victories in the same event.

Somebody asked me one time,

do you all get together
before the tournament starts

and decide who's gonna win the tournament?

I said no.

If you've ever seen three cats fighting

over a plate of fish, you'll know why.

♪ I'm changing my heart
for your heart baby

♪ I'll give you all my kisses to boot

♪ I'll trade you my
heart for your heart baby

♪ I'll give you all my kisses to boot

You'll never find any
three more competitive women

than we were.

♪ Bang bang bang bang bang bang bang

♪ Bang bang bangity bang bang

♪ Bang bang bang

♪ Bangity bang

♪ I'll trade you my
lips for your lips baby

Louise was the one
that dug in and worked.

She didn't care if she
got any credit for it.

Patty liked credit.

And Babe was the most charismatic.

♪ Bang bang bang bang bang bang

♪ Bang bang bangity bang bang

♪ Bang bang bang

Hi sports fans.

This is Howard Miller ready
to take you around the nation

for a closeup look at some
great sporting scenes.

50 stars led by Babe
Ditman's Open Championsip.

Babe holds the Rolling Hills Course record

with a 70.

And today she's a cold favorite again.

The other favorite is defending
champion Louise Suggs.

Last year, she won her first National Open

at Landover Maryland with a record 291.

And still in there is
Patty Berg of Minneapolis

who won the first
National Open back in 1936

14 years ago.

A sponsor wouldn't
stand for not having Babe

and Patty and myself.

And a few other people like that.

Because we both had red hair

and were about the same stature,

people started following
me because they thought

I was Patty Berg.

And then when they found out
that I wasn't Patty Berg,

they went somewhere else.

She was good with the crowds.

She was fantastic.

I think I was closer to
Patty on a personal basis.

She was a very pleaseant
person to be with.

And outgoing and tried to
promote the game of golf

other than herself.

Where I think Babe was
busy promoting herself.

But the main gallery

is following the Babe
again out to sow it up.

Like a champion, she saves her
best round for her final day

and plays amazing golf.

The $1,250 mean 14,000
for the Babe so far.

While amateur Betsy is happy
to nose out Louise Suggs.

Babe and Betsy, two happy lasses.

Babe irritated some
people that were serious

because she was a cut up

and she'd do some things sometimes

to call gamesmanship to bother you.

And then she'd make fun of it later

so it was hard to stay mad at her.

But you knew that she was
gonna try to do some stuff.

She always swore that she
never got appearance money

because the LPGA didn't allow
that, still doesn't allow it.

Oh yes, I would say she
definitely got appearance fee

to get turnup at tournaments,
some would have asked for them

and would have got them.

And maybe would have been
resented for having got them.

Patty Berg said she
never broke any rules

and Louis Suggs says otherwise.

Louise absolutely was the
conscience of the rules.

Even to the point where
she refused to sign

one of the Babe's cards after the event

because she felt that she pressured

one of the rules committee people

to give her that favorable ruling.

To this day, I don't know

how much appearance money she got.

But she told the story
that she always gave it

to the LPGA.

She did not.

That's one of those things that she and I

came to blows about just about.

I wouldn't have thought
that some of them,

they found it easy to live
with Babe, these women.

But they knew that she was
their bread and butter.

So I mean, you know, you can't
knock your bread and butter.

You know, there's a
difference between being a buddy

and respecting the talent.

There was a great respect for the talent.

When I first met Babe,
it was in Sacramento.

She had the greatest hazel
eyes I have ever seen.

I mean they were right
on you going through you

towards you, any which
way, but full of life.

But the
Babe sinks hers to win

with a new course record of 298.

Some said she's been slipping this winter

but the Babe never played better golf.

In 1948 she had a pain in her side

and instead of finding out
what was the problem medically,

she ignored it and that
went on for four years

which seem unbelievable that somebody

could have that much pain and then go on

for another four years before
she did anything about it.

It was just a startling
thing that this great athlete

with this perfect body could
have anything go so wrong.

And it was very hard.

Fred Corcoran, after Babe Zaharias

got really sick, he resigned.

The funds would drop so he left us.

And then several of us took
over as tournament directors

to get tournaments.

Well, we did whatever we had to do.

We couldn't afford a
commissioner for a few years.

And that's when some of
our arguments started.

Everybody had to come to the meeting

and you'd discuss whatever
you wanted to talk about

and get up and argue about it

and try to get in an agreement

as to what we're gonna do.

There was a lot of
disharmony in those meetings.

It must have been really hard.

Well some of them were screamfests.

Women hold a grudge.

It's hard.

Men you know, they could go in a meeting,

argue and cuss and swear.

But women hold a grudge
and that's not good.

You gotta let it go.

We all came together in the end.

It was just a very passionate
display of opinions.

This article that came
out in January 1954.

She did it tongue in cheek

but at the same time I think it did upset

most of the women she wrote about.

Patty Berg was the
healthiest hypochondriac.

Most of us get amusedly weary hearing

of Patty Berg's eh, uh huh.

Well okay.

Marlene Bauer's never finished
high school, that's neat.

But when I left, the
principal of the school,

he said you're wasting your time here.

You'll learn more on the tour.

So she didn't tell the whole story.

That's perfect.

Outgoing Marilynn Smith sometimes

gets so sociable with the
tournament guy that she forgets

to hit her shots.

I had many opportunities
to be engaged or married

and I didn't want to do that.

I wanted to just keep going all by myself.

That's the choice I made.

Well I almost got married
two or three times, you know.

And it's very hard to settle down

when you're traveling like that.

That would have been a
big decision to quit.

I wasn't in love with
him enough to do that,

to quit the tour and marry him.

People like that that
put other people down,

they don't like themselves.

And so they feel better when they can put

somebody down a little
farther so they're taller.

I didn't think it endeared her

to her fellow competitors.

But on the other hand, it
was probably great publicity

for the LPGA.

I'm sure that Babe was really
annoyed by the article.

She told Betty Hicks that
she would leave the tour

and see how Suggs earns the money.

George actually would not
have let Babe leave the tour

because George was earning
money with Babe earning money.

The Wichita
Country Club in Kansas

makes way for a new USGA
Women's Open golf champion

with Mrs. Babe Zaharias
sidelined by illness.

And she collapsed in 1952
at a tournament in Texas.

And it wasn't until 1953 that
she was actually diagnosed

with colon cancer.

You never thought of her
as a victim or being sick.

She was a very good trooper about that.

She took what life handed
her and carried on.

After Babe got cancer in
1953 and had a dramatic surgery

that she had to have in order to survive,

everybody thought she was finished.

But she loved golf so much

that she slowly began to come back.

In the Women's
National Open near Boston,

Babe Didrikson Zaharias making a,

Then it must have been her strength,

her determination that made her go on.

Babe drops a six
footer to preserve her par

and her big lead.

And she won by 10 strokes.

And I consider that the
greatest Women's Open victory

of all time.

Mrs. Zaharias
has the crown wrapped up.

Just 18 months ago, she underwent
an operation for cancer.

Everyone said her career was over.

But here she is winning by a mile,

a margin of 12 strokes
with a score of 291,

one of the most inspiring
comebacks in all sports history.

USGA President Ike
Granger presents the cup

and Babe offers some touching remarks.

I don't like to keep bringing up

this hospital deal of mine.

But I was laying there in room 201

at the Hotel Du Hospital and
these reports were going out

about that I'll never play championship

or tournament golf again.

And I laid in the bed and I says

please God, let me play again.

And he answered my prayer.

And I want to thank God
for letting me win again.

It's really wonderful.

Last time I saw Babe

was at the Women's
Titleholders in Augusta.

Now she'd had her operation for cancer.

And things aren't looking too good.

And it's the first time I saw,

I checked those eyes.

Those eyes were lifeless now.

Babe Zaharias spent her last Christmas

in Fort Worth Texas.

She was good friends with
R.L. and Bertha Bowett.

R.L. flew them from Beaumont

and Babe got off this little plane

and she still had on her
pajamas and her nightgown.

Babe said to Bertha, she said,

can you take me out to
Colonial Country Club?

And Bertha said yes, I got
the Bertha Station Wagon.

And they drove out.

They drove along this little dirt road

that went up next to the second green.

And Bertha helped Babe out of the car.

And she said I just wanted
to see a golf course

one more time.

You know, it was terrible for a lot of us.

She died of cancer, you know.

Well that's I don't want
to go through all that.

It was sad.

And it was sad that it would happen

to somebody like her
because she looked so strong

and so healthy.

Never missed a beat
mentally till her dying day.

And we all admired her.

I'm sorry she passed away.

I'm sorry anybody passes
away for that matter.

I'll grieve for Babe in my own way.

That was what I did.

That was such a tragedy to us

because she was our drawing card.

Because she was there, we were there.

She was the star.

And people came because they knew here

and then they began to
know us because of her.

People were afraid
that maybe the LPGA Tour

would fall apart.

Because the LPGA had been sold on Babe,

I think it was very difficult.

It was a huge blow for them.

We did all crazy things
to try to get people

to come watch us.

Shirley and I went to a boxing match

to again try to get support.

We had to sit there and watch the fight.

They were punching each
other and squirting the blood

and it sweat beyond on Marilynn.

I got woozy and I
couldn't go into the ring.

But Shirley did.

She walked through those ropes.

They ring the bell and ruh ruh ruh

and this is Shirley Spork and
come out to the National Open

and see the golfers
tomorrow or the next day.

And you know, all the boxers, boo, boo.

I don't know if any of
those boxing fans came,

but we did everything we
could to get publicity.

People are really staring at you.

And some are probably looking
to hope that you foul up.

Did we worry that we were gonna survive?

I think every year we went
home after the season,

we didn't know what the
next season was gonna bring.

It was always a worry.

We had to get more players.

You got to show that you're producing,

like planting a plant, is it gonna grow?

Are you gonna feed it, then it'll grow.

It's true that today,

men still monopolize the sport.

Out of approximately 10 million golfers

in the United States, only two
and a half million are women.

But ladies' golf is growing in popularity.

And much of the credit for this growth

goes to the LPGA.

The Ladies Professional Golf Association.

There are
great players like Patty Berg

and Betsy Rawls and Mickey Wright

who have played well for many, many years.

♪ From the day that we first met

The future of
ladies' professional golf

really depends on the young pros

that are now just getting started.

♪ I don't need to be boastful

I also feel that the,

the gals as times goes
on will find their tour

increasing not only in interest,

but the volume of the tournaments,

the amount of money they're
playing for and so forth

will also increase simply because

golf has become so popular with the ladies

in the United States.

♪ I'm gonna keep on loving you

♪ To never never never stay with me

When I started
back in '62 I think we had

30, 35 players a week at best.

And now we have many
times 80 and 90 players.

♪ We're gonna erase all the pain

♪ And start out just with me and you

I think all of the players that today

have beautiful golf swings,

have the great will to win and desire.

We're starting our progress now

and I don't think there's any stopping.

We're just climbing the ladder now.

We're just about there, I think.

All we can do now is go up.

Althea Gibson Darbin

is probably one of the outstanding
tennis stars of all time.

She turned to professional golf in 1963

and has made a good showing for herself.

Althea's athletic skill and
her marvelous sense of humor

have endeared her to both golf fans

and the girls on the tour.

Althea Gibson was the
first African-American woman

to play on the tour.

Well Althea won Wimbledon
twice which was extraordinary

and then when she retired from tennis,

she decided she wanted to
take up professional golf.

Here's
former US and Wimbledon

tennis champion Althea Gibson Darbin,

into professional golf now.

And I don't know how she managed,

I mean how she managed even
to play professional golf,

I don't know.

But to manage as an
African-American in those days

really was a very difficult path to tread.

We were playing a tournament in Texas.

And they wouldn't allow
her in the clubhouse.

So Lenny Works was our tournament director

and all of us decided to
not play at that course

and move someplace else
where she would be accepted.

We took care of each
other no matter what.

We didn't believe in that.

That's what we were fighting for,

was equality as women.

In fact, we boycotted three tournaments

because they wouldn't let
Althea change her shoes.

She had to change her shoes in the car.

So finally there were a couple of places

that we did not play because of that.

Baton Rouge was one of them.

As you can well imagine.

This is indicative of a true champion.

Thos who can sustain,
stay out there and win

championship after championship.

And when Renee Powell
came along after her,

it was still unbelievably
difficult for Renee

and she suffered a lot as well.

I knew there were a lot of issues

certainly in our country.

We had a lot of racial issues.

And I certainly had problems at hotels.

I had problems at restaurants.

I had problems sometimes
just trying to get

into the locker room at various clubs.

My peers on the tour,
they were like a family.

If something, if there was an issue

and somebody knew about it,

they would always come to my defense.

That's one thing that the
LPGA were very proud of.

We don't care what color you
are or what, you're accepted.

And the LPGA is far more
accepting than the PGA ever was.

The struggle of women in this country

and the struggle of people
of color in the country

sort of run parallel which is something

that I've always sort of
understood because I've been both.

I am both, you know?

I think about growing up
and being Hispanic and female,

there were times I couldn't
play at certain times.

And with respect to the
men, I think it's, you know,

it's definitely a man's world back then.

They were pioneers in
the really women's sport,

not just golf but women's sport.

I mean it really was the forerunner

of all of women's sports.

You know when we talk about title IX,

it came along long after
the LPGA was formed.

♪ Will you

♪ Will you

♪ Will you be my love

♪ Somebody's gonna hold my hand

♪ Somebody's gonna understand

♪ Somebody's gonna treat me right

♪ And give me loving both day and night

♪ They're gonna think
of what I'm thinking off

♪ And they will give give give

♪ Give me some love

♪ I wanna know

♪ Will you be my love

The opportunities weren't there

and I think that's what's
been frustrating to the woman

who wants to be an athlete.

And I think the
perception is that a female

is never a true athlete.

I think it's harder for
women to be athletes

and when they succeed, it's
more of an accomplishment.

♪ Give give give give give me some love

At one, Sheehan
was the only one off the green.

The Europeans were close.

But not close enough.

I didn't plan on it.

It wasn't something that I
came out this big announcement.

I just was tired of living in the closet.

It really wasn't even talked about.

I think that there were
some of the players

probably knew and some didn't

and it was just an accepted thing

that this is who she is and
she's a hell of a player

and let's go play golf.

♪ Give give give give give me some love

♪ I wanna know

♪ Will you be my love

I know when I was a
rookie, I thought, well

we're gonna catch up with the guys

and our purses are gonna be
close to what they're making

and now 2014, I think
we're about as far back

as we were back then.

The purses between men and women's is,

it's always challenging.

I think obviously you know, our founders

battled the same thing,
it's still a current thing.

You look at some of the telecast

and you watch the coverage
and the way we're talked about

is we're talked about as
females, what we wear.

How we're dressed, how we act

instead of our golf swings
and the shots we can hit.

And that's something that
we still struggle with

and until we get to the point
where we're seen as athletes,

we're gonna continue
to have smaller purses

as the guys.

The PGA tour's viewership today

is probably three to some cases four times

the viewership of the women's event.

And as a result of higher
viewership, they can charge

a higher sponsorship.

And as a result of higher sponsorship,

they can create a bigger purse.

I wanna see our players
playing for more money.

I want to see our players
playing on a bigger stage.

And getting the credit that they deserve.

People don't know how good we are.

I want the girls 20 years
from now playing for more money

and playing better golf courses.

Playing the courses the guys
play every year, I think.

'Cause I think we can.

People think that we're not good enough.

But we can for sure, we
can play with those guys.

I think thus far, the biggest message

I like to give to our daughter, that it's,

you have a dream and it can happen.

It really can, you just have
to go about it and do it.

Even with our son, I
want them to know that

obviously he can do it too.

But the girls can do it equally as well.

So get used to it.

I was a rookie in 1996 and I just won

the Sprint Titleholder's
Tournament which was

at that stage before the,
not including the US Open

it was the biggest purse on the LPGA.

And I won 180,000 dollars first place.

And Louise was in the media center.

The first thing she said to me was

you know girl, you won more money today

than I won in my entire career.

And you know, that really
puts it in perspective,

a 21 year old, I thought I
was loaded at the time too

so to think that someone
had won and accomplished

that much in the game of golf

and I had just achieved
financially what she had

in her whole career.

She said it with all the
pride that a mom would have.

She almost, it was almost
overjoyed with the comment.

And I thought right there,

that's what separates the
LPGA from other sports.

These women take pride in
creating those opportunities

when a lot of other sports
almost have a bitterness

about the fact that they
played in the wrong era.

I always do.

Oh good.

You know people come to me and say

oh aren't you upset?

I mean, god what could you be making now

if you'd done the same thing.

I said no, I don't look
at things that way.

Everything has a, I really don't.

They're devoting a great deal of money

to help promote junior girl's golf.

And that's where we got
to keep going forward,

getting new young talent.

We made over $81,000 last
year in this tournament.

We think we're gonna make
over 100,000 this year.

And we're gonna give, we
gave $25,000 scholarships

to help young girls go to college.

And hold your finish.

And forefinger and thumb and
toll the club to the target.

It's just a wonderful
opportunity to inspire young women

for character and honesty and
hard work and determination.

Yeah, the LPGA's mission is simple.

We want to be the preeminent
women's sports organization.

And we want to do that by attracting

the best female golfers in the world.

Be the best women's organization,

bring in the best and put them on display,

and through that display effort,

make sure we leave the game better

and more opportunistic
for the next generation

of women in golf.

We have five tours.

Five tours.

Not one tour, we have five tours.

We have the Japanese,
European, Korean, Australian.

We have to learn your language, right?

You gonna teach us?

All right.

Fact that women from all over the world

go and make a living playing
golf, more than a living.

They can do incredibly well.

And they have to thank
those women pioneers.

You're playing great.

We created the Founder's Cup

because personally for me, I found,

I was gaining strength from
learning about the founders

and what drove them and
what was important to them.

And I realize that that strength was still

completely relevant today.

But I wasn't sure that my young,
19, 20, 21 year old players

were getting that same opportunity to see,

hear, feel the strength
that came from 60 years ago.

That's almost too
short, don't you think?

That skirt?

I think so.

Good for you.

How did you do?

Wonderful, six under.

Hi, how are you?

Thanks for wearing pink today.

Say Founder's Cup.

Founder's Cup.

To think we started with 13 players.

Look where we are now.

Isn't that something?

13 players.

Shirley's 87, you
gotta be careful with her.

Shirley? She's not.

You're 87?

No way, you have a disposition like 57.

Do you have
any major regrets looking back?

Not about golf.

Yeah I guess so.

I would have wanted to have learned

a lot about music.

I'd like to learn how to arrange flowers.

I think that's an art to be able to just,

you just can't dump them
in a vase, you gotta.

This is coming down a hill.

You can make this.

She's a teacher at heart.

She's just teaching from the
minute she walks on the tee

and she still hits the dead center square

sweet spot of the golf
club every time she swings.

The hill it starts coming this way.

And it comes over that.

So I'm a founder of the tour and a founder

of the teaching division.

Put your thumbs right on it.

I don't get numerous prize moneys

but I get the feeling
that I've given something

to carry on the game of golf.

She's priceless.

I hope she gets in the
World Golf Hall of Fame

and she deserves to be in it.

Why
wouldn't they put her in it?

Part of it's political I think.

I don't know, I don't
know anything about it.

I'm lucky I'm in.

Where's Shirley, is she in here?

Come over here at the front.

It's you.

Don't get in the back.

Get up here in the front.

Please, mind.

There.

Thank you, sweety.

You're a hero,
what a legacy you've had.

How does it feel to be?

I'm just an ordinary person

who's lived an ordinary life.

Thank you.

Now here's something for you all.

I spent a lot of time talking to players

about how to treat customers.

About how to treat those
that are outside the ropes.

What I really should have
done now that I know Marilynn

is just introduce Marilynn
and left the room.

She sends me a thank you
note every time we talk

even if it's a phone conversation.

I'll get a handwritten note saying

thanks for the time today, Commish.

These magnets to all
of you before you go.

It has the name of our tournament on it.

Well I've met five Presidents

and been to all 50 states and 37 countries

just because of golf.

Look what golf has given
to me and it's awesome.

There's my trophy, my World
Golf Hall of Fame trophy.

You want me to hold it,
you want a picture of that?

Ooh it's heavy, isn't it?

Did you get it?

Can't hold it too long.

It's my prized possession,
I guess you'd say.

Something that's special.

Can you come and get this, honey?

I got to give you a hug.

Because body language tells
me you're a good person.

Thank you so much.

I'm serious.

He's the best we got.

Let me just get your mic.

You have the right heartbeat.

When I think of Marlene, I
think of longevity in golf.

You just can't imagine that this woman

could have gone on all those years.

This is Marlena
Bauer Hagge sinks a big one.

You know, she'd played
professional golf at top level

all that time.

How did she do it?

I have no idea.

I mean quite remarkable woman.

It's like I lived
several different lifetimes

because of things that happened.

I don't know how to describe it.

Certainly nothing boring
or mundane about it.

If I could play another round of golf

with somebody of the original
13, it would be my sister.

Because I could see her again.

Uh huh, oh this is good.

Babe and look at that hairdo.

Babe and Louise shaking hands.

That's a good one.

After a tournament probably, you know.

In 1988, Patty Berg had taken the bus

to attend a dinner honoring Louise Suggs.

And she said to me, she said, you know?

I think Louise acted as if she
was really glad I was there.

And she said, I was happy to go.

And I was delighted that she
seemed happy I was there.

She said because Louise and
I didn't always get along.

And she said I think it was because

I was a good friend of Babe's.

And she kind of settled
back in the car seat

and just stared out the
window and said to me,

I think everything's okay now.

On one of Louise's visits
to our club, her club,

having lunch, she asked me

if I would give her a tour
and I brought her down here

to the lower level.

And as she turned the
corner from over here,

and she spotted this piece
of artwork of the Babe,

she stood there and her face got red

and she says what in the
holy hell is this woman doing

hanging on the wall of my club

and there's no artwork of me?

And I said Louise,
Louise, please calm down.

This is the basement area of the club.

Over my shoulder, pretty
soon there's going to be

an original piece of artwork of you.

And that is on top of the Babe

where you have always been and
how we always will see you.

And that seemed to calm her down.

In all fairness and
due process or whatever,

without Babe, Babe Zaharias,

we probably wouldn't have made it.

Louise Suggs was probably
the one that did the most

through it all.

She was really dedicated,
not that other weren't.

And she never got the credit
that she should have got.

Ah.

You know, it's the first time

that I've ever been

up there with big boys.

I think you have to keep
looking and searching.

Someday you'll find something,
a real spot you wanna enjoy.

Then you can sit down and rest.

I was blessed.

I've had so many wonderful
blessings because of golf

and the people that I've met along the way

and the travels.

I mean it's just, we were
blessed by the Lord or something

because it's bigger than ever now.

It's pretty exciting to be sitting here.

Because you know, if they haven't,

weren't doing what they
were doing back then,

we wouldn't be here.

We are yes, very proud.

As you can see, what's happening today,

that's something to be proud of.

I still feel very fortunate
to be able to play the game

that I love and make a living from it.

And that's due to the 13 women
that started this for us.

I think that all of
us draw strength from,

if we think about it,
from what those women did.

We have to have the greatest respect for

people who have laid the
groundwork for others to follow it.

Well, to next year right?

Yep, to next year!

Right.

♪ There's a light in
my life shining over me

♪ There's a light in my life

That roller's motion, huhuhu

Golf is forever.

I'll say that again, golf is forever.

♪ That precious love

♪ There's a light in
my life shining over me

♪ Lord sometimes I sit and I wonder

♪ Why strange things happen to me

♪ Then again i feel my
friends are gone yeah

♪ But if I put my trust in Jesus

♪ My burdens will lighten

♪ Don't you see there's a light in my life

♪ Shining over me

♪ Lord walk with me

♪ Mm talk with me

♪ Please stay close by my side

♪ Be my chauffeur, be my comfort

♪ Be my guide yeah

♪ I was lost but now I see

♪ Jesus came and he rescued me

♪ There's a light in
my life shining over me

♪ There's a light in
my life shining over me

♪ There's a light in my
life shining over me yeah

♪ Let your blessing from above

♪ Fill me with thy gracious love

♪ There's a light in
my life shining over me