JoAnne Carner

Born in Kirkland, Wash., "The Great Gundy" (as she was known before she married Don Carner) remained an amateur until age 30. In 1960, while attending Arizona State University, she won the national intercollegiate individual golf championship. From 1956 to 1968, she was the dominant woman in amateur golf, and accumulated five U.S. Women's Amateur titles (1957, 1960, 1962, 1966, 1968), ranking her second only to Glenna Collett Vare, who had six. She was runner-up two other times (1956, 1964). In 1966, Carner needed 5 extra holes (41 holes in total) to beat Marlene Stewart Streit in the longest final match in U.S. Women's Amateur history. She also won the U.S. Girls' Junior in 1956. In addition, she competed on four U.S. Curtis Cup teams.
While still an amateur in 1969, Carner won an LPGA Tour event, the Burdine's Invitational. She was the last amateur to win on the LPGA Tour until 15-year-old New Zealander Lydia Ko won the CN Canadian Women's Open in 2012.
Carner is a graduate of Arizona State University. She married Don Carner in 1963, and he also served as her coach and business manager. They were married 36 years until his death at age 83 in 1999 after a long illness. The couple was known for driving from tournament to tournament and staying in an Airstream trailer.
Carner turned pro and joined the LPGA in 1970 at the age of 30. She played full-time between 1970 and 2004 and participated in 635 events making 532 cuts and finishing in the top-10 256 times (40). She won 43 times with two LPGA majors, the U.S. Women's Open in 1971 and 1976. Carner was the second player in LPGA history to cross the $1 million mark in career earnings and finished her career with $2,973,472 in earnings. Showing how much golf Carner played and how flexible she was at the age of 65, she also became the oldest player to make the 36-hole cut at an LPGA tournament at the Kraft Nabisco Championship in 2004, as well as at the Chick-fil-A Charity Championship.
Carner has been honored many times during her four decades on the LPGA Tour. She was inducted into the LPGA and World Golf Halls of Fame in 1982. She also earned the 1981 USGA Bob Jones Award and the Golf Writers Association of America Player of the Year Award in 1982-83. In addition, Carner served as captain of the victorious U.S. team at the 1994 Solheim Cup.
Carner lives in Lake Worth, Fla. and has played on the Legends Tour since it started. She shot her age (79) during the first round of last year's inaugural U.S. Senior Women's Open.

JoAnne shot 79-83=162 (+16) to miss the cut in the first U.S. Senior Women's Open