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Marion Turpie
Greater New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame


Golf, 1924-45


Inducted: 1971

Marion Turpie

Marion Turpie established herself as the first great woman golfer in New Orleans in the 1920s. She won many Southern Women’s Championships as well as the Trans-Mississippi Tournament in 1926 and the Women’s Easter title in 1937.