Alexa Stirling

E X E C U T I V E S UMMA RY

Though Alexa Stirling’s years in the game of golf long precede the current criteria for induction into the WGHoF, no one more personifies a champion and a decent, sportsmanlike human. As Patty Berg, a founding member of the LPGA, WGHoF member, and winningest major champion of all time said of her, “I only hope when I leave competitive golf, I can be like Alexa. I have never met a golfer or a woman that I thought so much of. Alexa is the finest competitor and the finest lady the game has ever known.” As successful as Alexa Stirling was on the golf course, a great game was only one of many talents she had; she was truly a multifaceted renaissance woman with an amazing breadth of accomplishments. As accomplished as she was both on and off the course, she was equally gracious and kind. Perhaps the most perfect example of this was in 1950, at the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Women’s Amateur played at

Atlanta Athletic Club. On the 18th hole of the first round, she could have tied her opponent by sinking a seven-foot putt, but opted to pick up her ball and hold out her hand, so conceding the match. She later told Patty Berg that this was because “I had my time, this is their time.” A dear friend of Bobby Jones, a multiple time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion and an advocate for the game, Alexa Stirling was most certainly a trailblazer. She was indeed one of the finest competitors and one of the finest women ever to swing a club; she is one of the most deserving and underappreciated women in the history of the sport and meets the criteria for consideration as both a competitor and as a contributor. The World Golf Hall of Fame has brought attention to many notable female golfers over the years including Patty Berg and Glenna Collett Vare both of whom were vocal about her contributions to the game along with many others against whom she played; the absence of Alexa Stirling is notable, and she deserves to have the light shine brightly on her legacy at WGHoF.

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