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Marlene Hagge-Vossler, last surviving LPGA founder, dies at 89

Nancy Lopez, left, stands with LPGA co-founders Marlene Hagge-Vossler in 1978. Hagge-Vossler died Tuesday morning at age 89. (AP)

RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. — Marlene Hagge-Vossler, a Hall of Fame player and the last surviving founder of the LPGA Tour, died Tuesday morning, her family said. She was 89.

Hagge-Vossler won 26 times on the LPGA Tour, including the 1952 LPGA Championship, and she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002. She was 15-year-old Marlene Bauer when she joined 12 other women — including her older sister, Alice Bauer — in signing incorporation papers in 1950 for the fledgling LPGA Tour.

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