This Day in Golf History: October 26

On this date in 1975, Mary Bea Porter completed a wire-to-wire victory with a final-round, three-over-par 76 and a 72-hole total of 287 in the LPGA Golf Inns of America tournament at the Whispering Palms course in Rancho Santa Fe. She finished five under par for four rounds and three strokes ahead of runner-up Donna Young. Porter's first-place money of $5,700 more than doubled the $4,935 she had won In 22 events in 1975 to that point.