Golf
b. Feb. 16, 1934, Eureka, SD
Bauer began playing golf when she was three. Twelve years later, in 1949, she won the U. S. girl's junior championship and was named teen-ager of the year, golfer of the year, and the Associated Press female athlete of the year. She joined the LPGA tour at sixteen, the youngest ever; forty years later, she was its oldest active member.
Her finest year was 1956, when she beat Patty Berg in a sudden death playoff to win the second LPGA Championship. She was the tour's top money winner that year with $20,235. In 1971, she set a 9-hole record of 29 that stood until 1984.
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