Sandra Haynie - Part 2 (Winning Majors at the LPGA, the U.S. Open and the du Maurier)

World Golf Hall of Fame member Sandra Haynie continues her story with the 1973 season and fondly recalls her six titles the following year including two majors, her second LPGA Championship and the Women's U.S. Open where she birdied the final two holes to win. Sandra explains her decision to step away from the Tour in 1977 citing the toll various injuries were taking on her body, impacting her ability to compete at the highest level. She returned in 1981 and won her final major and Tour event, the Peter Jackson Classic (du Maurier), the following year. In 1991, after 42 wins on the LPGA Tour, 9th on the all-time list, she decided to step away from Tour play and devote herself to giving back to the game. Sandra Haynie completes her remarkable life story, "FORE the Good of the Game."

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"FORE the Good of the Game” is a golf podcast featuring interviews with World Golf Hall of Fame members, winners of major championships and other people of influence in and around the game of golf. Highlighting the positive aspects of the game, we aim to create and provide an engaging and timeless repository of content that listeners can enjoy now and forever. Co-hosted by PGA Tour star Bruce Devlin, our podcast focuses on telling their life stories, in their voices. Join Bruce and Mike Gonzalez “FORE the Good of the Game.”

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Haynie, Sandra

Golf Professional

This is the story of a renaissance woman who had two careers on the LPGA Tour: one in which she qualified for the Hall of Fame and one in which she came back to remind everyone just how good she really was.

From 1962-75, Sandra Haynie won 39 tournaments on the LPGA Tour. Two years later, at the age of 34, she left golf. The reasons? An ulcer, brought on by the pressure of competitions, and a circulation problem in her left hand, caused by years of hitting golf balls – she began competing in amateur tournaments when she was 12 – which resulted in arthritis. “I’d come out to the course,” she said, describing those years, “and wish I were someplace else.”

“I thought about my stroke, which had been so good all day. And then I looked at the hole. It looked huge. As soon as I hit the putt, I knew it was good. I didn’t even see it go in the hole. I just whooped.”
So rather than fight, she surrendered and returned home to Dallas to find, in her words, “the peaceful center that I knew was somewhere inside me, or ought to be.”

During that time, she became mentor to Martina Navratilova, managing the tennis great to her first Wimbledon singles victory in 1978. Known as a cerebral golfer, Haynie taught Navratilova the art of winning and in so doing she became more in control of herself. Haynie’s body recovered, and so did her mind. In 1980, watching Jack Nicklaus win the U.S. Open on television, Haynie wondered what it would feel like to do the same thing. In 1974, she had won the LPGA Championship and the U.S. Women’s Open within a few weeks of each other… Read More

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