PHOENIX – Laura Baugh was one of the game’s original teen phenoms.
She was one of its first sex symbols.
While she didn’t win an LPGA event after a stellar amateur career, she won a lot of fans to the game as one of the tour’s most popular players. She did so over a career that overlapped generations that ranged from Mickey Wright’s to Annika Sorenstam’s.
Baugh is being recognized this week as a Bank of Hope Founders Cup honoree.
“I used to eat dinner with Patty Berg,” Baugh said. “I played with Mickey Wright in the last tournament she won.