This Day in Golf History: October 26

Mary Bea Porter won the 1975 LPGA Golf Inns of America tournament on this date, at Whispering Pines in Rancho Santa Fe, by three shots over Donna Caponi. Porter completed a wire-to-wire victory with a final-round, three-over-par 76 and a 72-hole total of 287. She finished five under par for four rounds. Porter's first-place money of $5,700 more than doubled the $4,935 she had won In 22 events in 1975 to that point.