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- JoAnne Carner won major
- golf championships as an
- amateur and as a
- professional. She is the
- only golfer to have won
- the U.S. Golf Association (USGA) Girls Junior,
- the U.S. WomenΓÇÖs Amateur, and the U.S.
- WomenΓÇÖs Open titles.
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- After winning the USGA Girls Junior cham-
- pionship at age 17, JoAnne won the U.S.
- WomenΓÇÖs Amateur title five times, between
- 1957 and 1968. In 1969, she became the
- last amateur to win a tournament playing
- against professional golfers.
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- At 30, when she joined the Ladies Profes-
- sional Golf Association (LPGA) in 1970,
- JoAnne was old for a rookie.
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