It’s a special feat to own a piece of USGA history. Even more special when it’s shared with a loved one. Kathy and Kay Cornelius are the only mother-daughter pair to win USGA championships. Kathy, 89, won the 1956 U.S. Women’s Open and Kay, 55, became the youngest to ever win the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 1981 at age 14.
Both now live in Arizona, close to Kathy’s eldest daughter Karen, who celebrated her second birthday the day mom beat Barbara McIntire in an 18-hole playoff at Northland Country Club in Duluth, Minnesota.
“We didn’t have daycare,” said Kay of life on tour. “We walked 18 holes every day and lived and breathed every stroke.”
