Sandra Haynie/
Golf
During her 20 years on the tour, Sandra Haynie won the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) Championship twice, once in 1965 and again in 1974.
In 1974 she also won the prestigious U.S. Open, becoming the first woman to win both the LPGA and U.S. Open Championships in the same year. She participated in the Sprint Titleholders Seniors Challenge from 1993-1996. Haynie left the LPGA tour in 1985 due to injuries but returned in 1988 for two more years. Before joining the LPGA tour, she won the 1957 and 1958 Texas State Publinx, the 1958 and 1959 Texas Amateur, and also captured the 1960 Trans-Mississippi title.
Haynie first achieved amateur success at home in Texas when she began playing the game at the age of 11. The winner of 42 LPGA titles, she was inducted into the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1977 and into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame in 1984.
Off the course, Haynie is the Easter Seals liaison/coordinator for the JCPenny/LPGA Skins Game, and she heads the annual celebrity pro-am "Swing Against Arthritis." (10/99)