BEVERLY HANSON (1924-    )
Champion Female Golfer

One of the best female golfers of the 1950s was born and raised in North Dakota. In different years during that decade, Beverly Hanson won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Golf Championship, the Ladies Professional Golf Association Tournament (LPGA), and was the top female money winner.  The amateur golf tournament was the first pro golf tournament in which she ever competed and the LPGA was the first ever held.