This Day in Golf--Jan. 22

The very first LPGA Tour event finished on this date in 1950. An amateur, Polly Riley, a Curtis Cup stalwart for many playings, was the winner at Palma Ceia Country Club in Tampa. She won by five shots over Louise Suggs, the tenacious competitor who had a career worthy of the World Golf Hall of Fame. The total purse in that inaugural event was $3,500!