Dettweiler, Helen (1914–1990)

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Dettweiler, Helen (1914–1990)

American golfer. Name variations: Helen E. Dettweiler. Born Dec 5, 1914, in Washington DC; died of cancer, Nov 13, 1990, in Palm Springs, California.

Was the 1st woman baseball commentator, broadcasting coast-to-coast for Washington Senators, and the 1st woman to design and build a golf course (Indio, CA); was a member of the WASPs, flying B-17 bombers, during WWII; won Western Open (1939); along with Patty Berg, Babe Zaharias, Betty Jameson, Betty Hicks, and Betty Mims, helped form the LPGA; won the LPGA Teacher of the Year Award (1958). Appeared in film Pat and Mike (1952).

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