A golf legend passed away on Christmas Eve.
American Kathy Whitworth, who won 88 tournaments on the LPGA Tour (Ladies professional golf association), the absolute record, died on Saturday at the age of 83.
It was his partner Bettye Odle who announced it on Sunday.
"Kathy passed away suddenly on Saturday evening while celebrating Christmas Eve with family and friends," Kathy said in a statement released by the LPGA Tour.
Kathy left this world as she lived her life, loving, laughing and making memories.
»
"Kathy was a champion in the truest sense of the word"
Kathy Whitworth won the first of her 88 LPGA tournaments in 1962 and her last in 1985. Winner of six Majors, she is the first woman to have won a million dollars on the circuit.
She, who has never won the US Women's Open, once said, "I would have traded being the first to win a million for winning the Open, but it was a consolation that took away a little of the pain of not winning it".
“The world of golf and the world at large has lost one of its most incredible women with the passing of Kathy Whitworth.
Kathy was a champion in the truest sense of the word, both on and off the golf course,” LPGA commissioner Mollie Marcoux Samaan reacted on Sunday.
Sport
Golf: "As the French No. 1, there is more expectation", explains Céline Boutier before the French Open
Sport
Golf: Tiger Woods refused between 700 and 800 million euros to join the LIV Tour
Golf
Sport
Christmas