Last Living Founder of LPGA, Marlene Hagge-Vossler, Dies at 89
- Marlene Hagge-Vossler, a Hall of Fame player and last surviving founder of the LPGA Tour, died at the age of 89.
- She won 26 times on the LPGA Tour, including the 1952 LPGA Championship, and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002.
- Hagge-Vossler was one of the founders of the LPGA Tour, signing incorporation papers in 1950 with 12 other women, including her older sister, Alice Bauer.
- She was known as one of the "glamor girls" in the early days of the LPGA and was a star on and off the course.
- Her family said she died in a memory care facility and had been coping with physical problems during the last year because of a fall.