- Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photograph Collection
- Title:
- Golfers Louise Suggs and Dorothy Kirby
- Creator:
- Rogers, Kenneth, 1907-1989
- Date of Original:
- 1938
- Subject:
- Golfers--Georgia--Atlanta
Golf--Georgia--Augusta
Sports--Georgia--Augusta
Sports and recreation facilities--Georgia--Augusta
Women--1930-1940
Clothing and dress--1930-1940
Women--Clothing and dress
Augusta National Golf Club
Suggs, Mae Louise, 1923-
Kirby, Dorothy, 1920-2000 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Bibb County, 32.80659, -83.69776
United States, Georgia, Richmond County, Augusta, 33.47097, -81.97484 - Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- View of Golfers Louise Suggs (left) and Dorothy Kirby (right) on the Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia.
A native Atlantan, Louise Suggs won several golf championships before becoming a professional in 1948. In 1949, she won the U.S. Open and became one of the founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). During her professional career she won fifty-eight events and was an inductee into the LPGA Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame, among others.
Born in West Point, Georgia, Dorothy Kirby moved to Atlanta at age 10. She won the Georgia State Women's Championship five consecutive times, the U.S. Amateur Championship, and numerous other cups, and championships. She was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1974, the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame in 1989, and in 1971 the Atlanta Country Club established the Dorothy Kirby Invitational Tournament. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 82.65.01
ahc082065001a.jpg - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/Rogers/id/611
- Extent:
- 4 x 5 in. black and white negative
- Original Collection:
- Kenneth Rogers Photographs, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
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