LPGA Hall of Famer Betsy King on golf, faith and bringing hope to women and children in Africa

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5 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2022

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Betsy King is a former professional golfer for 28 years from 1977-2005. She is the winner of six LPGA Major Championships including the U.S. Women's Open in 1989 and 1990 and the Women's PGA Championship in 1992. She was named the LPGA Tour Player of the Year three times (1984, 1989, 1993) and inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.

After retirement, King took a trip to Africa in 2006 that changed her life forever and formed Golf Fore Africa in 2007, a non-profit that partners with World Vision to bring help and hope to women and children in communities throughout Africa.

Today on the podcast, we talk to Betsy about her illustrious golf career, being a follower of Christ on the golf course, her favorite moment as a golfer and her desire in retirement to serve and help those overseas with Golf Fore Africa.

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1:17.8	This is Sports Spectrum, the intersection of sports and faith, where we bring Jesus back into the conversation.
1:20.1	Here's your host, Jason Romano.
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1:23.9	I am Jason Romano.
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1:45.3	Jason at Sportspectrum.com is my email address, Jason at Sportspectrum.com. It's always great when
1:53.1	you can bring a Hall of Fame golfer to the show today. And we got Betsy King as our guest,
1:59.3	LPGA Hall of Fame golfer we're talking about 34 LPGA tour
2:03.4	victories we're talking about six count them six LPGA major championships including the
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