Marlen Hagge Obituary

Marlen Hagge was an American professional golfer. She was one of the 13 founders of the LPGA in 1950. She won one major championship and 26 LPGA Tour career events. She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

She started playing golf at age 3. At age 10, she won the Long Beach City Boys Junior. At age 13, she won the Western and National Junior Championships, the Los Angeles Women’s City Championship, the Palm Spring Women’s City Championship, the Palm Spring Women’s Championship and many others.

Hagge was the youngest of the 13 women who founded the LPGA in 1950 and remains the youngest-ever member of the LPGA Tour. Her older sister, Alice Bauer, was also a founder. She won her first tournament in 1952 at the Sarasota Open. She would go on to win a total of 26 events on the LPGA Tour, including one major championship, the 1956 LPGA Championship.

That year, she was also the tour’s leading money winner and led the tour in wins with eight. In 2002, she was voted into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame through the veteran’s Category in and was officially inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Her final competitive appearance in the LPGA Tour came in 1996.