Women‘s Major Champions Episodes
Kathy Whitworth - Part 1 (The Early Years and LPGA History)
World Golf Hall of Fame member and the winningest player on any Tour ever, Kathy Whitworth, begins her remarkable story by sharing how she came to the game of golf at age 15 using her grandfather's clubs and how the local pro...
Martha Nause - Part 2 (The 1994 du Maurier Classic and Perseverance)
Martha Nause relates the story of her finish at the LPGA Sun-Times Shoot-Out in 1991 going birdie, birdie, birdie, eagle to win, but tragically followed months later by the passing of her mother. Martha felt that the stress c...
Martha Nause - Part 1 (The Early Years and First LPGA Win)
Major Championship winner, Martha Nause, takes us back to growing up in Sheboygan, Wisconsin, learning the game with her four siblings under the watchful eyes of her parents at their local country club. With no high school or...
Nancy Lopez - Part 4 (The 1985 LPGA Championship and Rest of Career)
Nancy Lopez was referred to by Kathy Whitworth as the Arnold Palmer of the LPGA Tour and for good reason. Winning 17 times in her first two years on tour, Nancy quickly became the face and the darling of the LPGA. Hear how sh...
Nancy Lopez - Part 3 (The 1978 and 1989 LPGA Championships and The So…
3-time major championship winner, Nancy Lopez remembers the challenges of traveling on the tour in those first few years as a professional. Nancy recounts how she relished competing against the likes of JoAnne Carner, Judy Ra...
Nancy Lopez - Part 2 (The Early Tour Years)
Join us for a riveting conversation with the winner of 48 LPGA Tour events, Nancy Lopez, as she shares her inspiring journey from her time at the University of Tulsa to the top ranks of professional golf. In this episode, Nan...
Nancy Lopez - Part 1 (The Early Years and U.S. Open Near-Misses)
World Golf Hall of Fame member Nancy Lopez begins her story growing up and learning the game under the watchful eye of her father in Roswell, New Mexico. She had astounding success as a junior player winning her state's amate...
Catherine Lacoste - Part 3 (Winning the British and U.S. Amateurs)
We wrap up our visit with Women's U.S. Open champion and French amateur great Catherine Lacoste by first looking back on a 13-month stretch of a dozen match and stroke-play events where she did not lose. After winning the 196...
Catherine Lacoste - Part 2 (Winning the 1967 U.S. Open as an Amateur)
In this second installment of our three-part interview with the great French amateur champion Catherine Lacoste, we delve into her many team and individual victories leading up to her historic triumph at the 1967 Women's U.S....
Catherine Lacoste - Part 1 (The Early Years and the Inaugural Espirit…
Join Bruce and Mike as they explore the remarkable amateur golf career of the "Crocodile Kid", Catherine Lacoste. Born in Paris of sporting parents, her father was the great René Lacoste, winner of seven Grand Slam tennis tit...
Susie Maxwell Berning - Part 2 (The Later Years and Three U.S. Open W…
Susie Maxwell Berning, World Golf Hall of Fame member, continues her story by recounting her three wins at the Women's U.S. Open including 1968 and going back-to-back in 1972 and 1973. Susie reflects back on the LPGA Founders...
Susie Maxwell Berning - Part 1 (The Early Years and the 1965 Western …
World Golf Hall of Fame member Susie Maxwell Berning begins her story as a young girl raising horses in Oklahoma City. When her young colt Joker got loose and ran through the neighboring golf course, her life changed forever....
Kathy Cornelius - Part 3 (The Later Years)
Major champion Kathy Cornelius relives her later LPGA Tour victories including her last, the 1973 Sealy-Faberge Classic at the Desert Inn where she won in a playoff with Judy Rankin and took home the first prize of $25,000 an...
Kathy Cornelius - Part 2 (The 1956 Women's U.S. Open)
Kathy Cornelius recalls turning professional in 1953 with encouragement from her golf professional husband Bill, joining the LPGA Tour in 1956, just after its formation in 1950. Kathy recounts her early wins including her fir...
Kathy Cornelius - Part 1 (The Early Years)
Winner of the 1956 Women's U.S. Open, Kathy Cornelius takes us back to her childhood days where she had her first golf lesson at age 13. She recalls traveling by auto, with her mother, from FL to NY to compete in the 1950 U.S...