Louise Suggs, a Georgia-born founder of the women’s professional golf tour and one of its most successful and outspoken players, died on Friday in Sarasota, Fla. She was 91.
Her death was announced by the Ladies Professional Golf Association, which said she had been in hospice care.
Suggs turned professional in 1948, when she was the reigning United States and British amateur champion. Two years later, she was one of 13 players who formed the L.P.G.A. She, Babe Didrikson Zaharias and Patty Berg were the main stars on the early tours.
“We figured if we could maybe get some tournaments together, we could at least pick up a little pocket change,” Suggs once said.