Class of 2025

Debbie Austin

Hometown: Oneida, N.Y.
Residence: Orlando, F.L.

Debbie Austin's Career Highlights

  • Winner, 1965 NYS Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship (Teugega) 

  • Runner-up, 1963 & 1965 NYS Women’s Amateur Championship

  • Moved to Florida, won Florida State High School Championship by 10 shots (1965)

  • Member, Rollins College Golf, joined in 1966-67

  • 7x winner, LPGA Tour (member 1968-1987)

    • 1977 Birmingham Classic

    • 1977 Hoosier Classic

    • 1977 Pocono Northeast Classic

    • 1977 Long Island Charity Classic

    • 1977 Wheeling Classic

    • 1978 American Cancer Society Classic

    • 1981 Mayflower Classic

  • Golf Magazine’s 1977 Player-of-the-Year

  • Member of the LPGA Player Council 1982-83 and a Player Director in 1985-86

  • Ranked in the top-30 on the LPGA all-time career money list at the time of her retirement

  • Established tradition with General Chairman John B. Smith of winner taking a plunge into the pool at the Mayflower Classic

  • Head Coach of Women’s Golf, Rollins College from 1987-1989

  • Junior tees at Westchester CC named in Debbie’s honor

  • Inducted into the Central Florida Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 – only the seventh woman to be inducted.

 

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