Marion Turpie
New Orleans Sports Hall of Fame

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Golf, 1924-45

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Inducted: 1971

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.
 
Born in Scotland at St. Andrews in 1908, her family moved to New Orleans shortly after her birth.
 
Turpie won her first tournament, a handicap event, at the age of 13. When she was 14 years old, she set the record for women’s golfers in New Orleans.
 
She captured her first Southern Women’s Championship in 1926 and added victories in the 1928 and 1931 events as well as runner-up efforts in 1927 and 1930. She also won the 1927 and 1928 editions of the Louisiana Ladies State Golf Championships.
 
After moving to the East Coast, she won the Long Island Championship in 1935, 1936, and 1940, and took second in 1932, 1933, and 1937. Turpie won the 1926 Trans-Mississippi Tournament, came in 2nd place in the 1929 Trans-Mississippi Tournament and won the 1937 Women's Eastern Title. She won the New York State and New York Metropolitan Title in 1937. She won the Ekwanok Women's Tournament and the Long Island Medal Play Tournament in 1938.
 
Turpie died on February 27, 1967, in New Orleans.