Patty Berg was a founding member of the LPGA. Born February 13, 1918, Patty was 13 when she turned her focus to golf and never stopped. For Berg, golf was a high calling. One of her rules was: "Don't think you really win until you live up to that high thing within you that makes you do your best, no matter what."At 16 she won the 1934 Minneapolis City Championship. The next 7 years held 28 amateur victories for Patty.

Patty turned professional in 1940, at a time when there were very few professional women golfers. In 1946 Patty won the first U.S. Women’s Open. Not long after that in 1948 Patty was among the group of women who founded the LPGA and was the association’s first president. That same year she won 3 titles.
Patty Berg had so many struggles with health issues that she should be an inspiration to us all. In 1941 she was in a car accident that severely injured her knee and was sidelined for 18 months, cancer surgery in 1971, major hip surgery in 1980, and back surgery in 1989. Even though the hip surgery ended her professional career, she still remained an active golfer and teacher.

Patty Berg was all things to women's golf-a superb player, a great promoter, a wonderful teacher, a charismatic personality. Patty Berg was inducted into LPGA Tour and World Golf Halls of Fame, LPGA T&CP Hall of Fame, Women’s Sports Hall of Fame, PGA of America Golf Hall of Fame, University of Minnesota Hall of Fame, and the American, Minnesota and Florida Halls of Fame.

Sadly on September 10th,2006 the world of golf lost Patty Berg due to Alzheimer’s.