LAURA BAUGH TURNED PRO IN 1973 and won Rookie of the Year.
In a Mother's Day story by Golfweek writer Beth Ann Nichols, Baugh tallked about the challenges of being a single mom of seven children while playing the LPGA Tour:
I was really in love with being a mom. We traveled in a large van and had great times, saw the Smithsonian. But my golf definitely suffered. A single mom with seven kids playing the LPGA tour sounds bizarre, but at the same time, we had great times....
Then, as the children got older, I thought, you don't want to homeschool and play professional golf and travel.