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gloria armstrong, an original member of the lgpa tour in 1975. she start golfing as an 11-year-old in 1941 and the next event in the same area didn't go so well. >> they didn't let me play because i didn't belong to the country club. >> the ladies pulled together a $2,400 entry fee and got her into a uslpga event. >> i beat some girl i had never heard of named mickey wright. >> oh, wow. >> wright became one of the best ever. gloria then tried the florida tour and was down to her last $3, calling her dad who could not help. >> i won $162.50. and that was what really kept me out there. >> reporter: she then joined the 15 original members on the lpga tour in 1955, they put on their open events and traveled together and gloria traveled with a trailer hitch to her car as she couldn't afford hotels, playing her first pro event in oklahoma city. >> sponsors could never pay for the tournament, so nobody got paid. >> carson solheim gave her one of her first clubs and became the first one to win an event with a ping putter. she played throughout the 1976 s

gloria armstrong, an original member of the lgpa tour in 1975. she start golfing as an 11-year-old in 1941 and the next event in the same area didn't go so well. >> they didn't let me play because i didn't belong to the country club. >> the ladies pulled together a $2,400 entry fee and got her into a uslpga event. >> i beat some girl i had never heard of named mickey wright. >> oh, wow. >> wright became one of the best ever. gloria then tried the florida tour and was down to her last $3, calling her dad who could not help. >> i won $162.50. and that was what really kept me out there. >> reporter: she then joined the 15 original members on the lpga tour in 1955, they put on their open events and traveled together and gloria traveled with a trailer hitch to her car as she couldn't afford hotels, playing her first pro event in oklahoma city. >> sponsors could never pay for the tournament, so nobody got paid. >> carson solheim gave her one of her first clubs and became the first one to win an event with a ping putter. she played throughout the 1976 s

. >> oakland native gloria armstrong has so many lasers from player to teacher to mentor. i sat down with her to share this amazing story 87 years in the making. >> reporter: gloria armstrong was an original member of the lgpa -- lpga tour. >> i went to play in the state amateur and they wouldn't let me play because i didn't belong to a country club. >> reporter: the ladies club at the alameda course pulled together a $25 entry fee and got her in a national usga event. >> it was match play and i beat some girl i never heard of named mickey wright. >> oh, wow. >> reporter: wright became one of the best ever. gloria then tried to the florida tour and down to her last $3, calling her dad who could not help. >> yrb 1n are 162.50 and that's what really kept me out there. >> reporter: she then joined the original 15 members in 1955. they put on their own events and held clin,s to get more women involved in golf. she travelled with a trailer hitched to her car as she couldn't afford hotels. >> sponsors that never pay the prize money for the tournament. so nobody got paid. >> repo