Background
Jameson was born in Norman, Oklahoma and graduated from Dallas" Sunset High School in 1939.
Jameson was born in Norman, Oklahoma and graduated from Dallas" Sunset High School in 1939.
University of Texas at Austin.
She was one of the thirteen founders of the LPGA in 1950. She started playing golf at age 11. Jameson turned professional in 1945.
She was one of the thirteen women who founded the LPGA in 1950.
In 1967, when the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame was created, Jameson was one of the six inaugural inductees. The LPGA recognized her induction year into the Hall of Fame of Women"s Golf, 1951, as her official induction year into the LPGA Tour Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame.
She competed in her final LPGA event, the Burdine"s Invitational, in 1970. Jameson conceived the idea of annually honoring the golfer with the lowest scoring average on the LPGA Tour and, in 1952, donated a trophy for that in the name of Glenna Collett Vare.
She was inducted into the Women"s Sports Foundation"s Hall of Fame in 1999.
Jameson died in Boynton Beach, Florida. LPGA Tour wins (13) 1942 (1) Women"s Western Open (as an amateur) Other wins Wins (3).
She is a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.