Peggy Kirk Bell, who made her mark on golf as a major champion, a hall-of-fame teacher and a course owner, died Wednesday. She was 95.
Bell won two of golf’s highest honors: the USGA’s Bob Jones Award and the LPGA’s Patty Berg Award.
“She’s a pistol,” Cristie Kerr said before the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open. “She is so solid and inspiring and has done so much for women’s golf.”
Bell was still an amateur when she won the 1949 Titleholders Championship, which was then an LPGA major. That year she also won the North and South Women’s Amateur.