Shirley Spork, one of the LPGA Tour's founders, died Tuesday morning. She was 94.
Spork was recently selected to join the LPGA Hall of Fame. The decision was announced March 29 to include all 13 of the founding members.
Spork was born May 14, 1927, in Detroit, Michigan. She grew up across from Bonnie Brook Golf Club and, at age 12, with money earned from collecting, cleaning and reselling golf balls, she bought her first club, a putter.
Spork attended college at what is now Eastern Michigan University and won the 1947 national women’s collegiate golf tournament.