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- turned professional. She
- then served in the Marine
- Corps during World War
- II, from 1942-45.
-
- Patty was a founder and an original member
- of the LPGA in 1948, and was an inductee
- into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1951, its first
- year. She brought power and aggressive
- play to the womenΓÇÖs game. Patty won 15
- major championships, including the first
- U.S. WomenΓÇÖs Open in 1946.
-
- Patty led the LPGA in victories four times and
- was the tourΓÇÖs leading money winner three
- times. During the 1959 U.S. WomenΓÇÖs Open,
- she became the first woman to get a hole-
- in-one in official competition.
-