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    Updated: 2022-12-27 10:01
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    Kathy Whitworth responds to the crowd as she prepares to tee off during the Tournament of Champions at Locust Hill Country Club in Pittsford, New York, in 2006. Former LPGA Tour player Whitworth, whose 88 victories are the most by any golfer on a single professional tour, died on Saturday. [Photo/Agencies]

    Whitworth, the most successful LPGA player with a record 88 titles, passed away suddenly on Saturday

    Kathy Whitworth set a benchmark in golf no one has ever touched, whether it was Sam Snead or Tiger Woods, Mickey Wright or Annika Sorenstam. Her 88 victories are the most by any player on a single professional tour.

    Whitworth, whose LPGA Tour victories spanned nearly a quarter-century and who became the first woman to earn $1 million for her career on the LPGA, died on Christmas Eve, her longtime partner said. She was 83.

    Bettye Odle did not disclose a cause of death, saying only that Whitworth died suddenly Saturday night while celebrating with family and friends.

    "Kathy left this world the way she lived her life — loving, laugh and creating memories," Odle said in a statement released by the LPGA Tour.

    Whitworth won the first of her 88 titles in the Kelly Girls Opens in July 1962. She won six majors during her career and broke Mickey Wright's record of 82 career wins when she captured the Lady Michelob in the summer of 1982.

    Her final victory came in 1985 at the United Virginia Bank Classic.

    "Winning never got old," Whitworth once said.

    All that was missing from her career was the US Women's Open, the biggest of the women's majors. Upon being the first woman to surpass $1 million in career earnings in 1981, she said, "I would have swapped being the first to make a million for winning the Open, but it was a consolation which took some of the sting out of not winning".

    Sorenstam referred to her on Twitter as the LPGA's all-time victory leader and a "total class act" who will be dearly missed.

    "Thanks for setting the bar so high, Kathy," she wrote.

    Whitworth was the AP Female Athlete of the Year in 1965 and in 1967, when she easily beat out Wimbledon singles champion Billie Jean King. Whitworth was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1982.

    She was the LPGA player of the year seven times in an eight-year span (1966 through 1973). She won the Vare Trophy for the lowest scoring average seven times and she was the leading money winner in eight seasons.

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