Career

She was the first full-time national television network female sportscaster when she began broadcasting at Entertainment and Sports Programming Network on February 6, 1981. Glenn was a golf commentator for American Broadcasting Company from 1978 to 1994. As an amateur golfer, she played in five United States. Women"s Amateur Championships and two United States. Women"s Open.

She was also a correspondent for Golf World Magazine and a regular contributor to Golf Journal.

Early in her broadcast career, Glenn was a talk show host and presented the weather and news at WAVY-television in Portsmouth/Norfolk/Newport News in the 1970s. She was so popular at WAVY that the city of Portsmouth renamed the street where the station was located in her honor.

Glenn lived in Roanoke, Texas. She died of cancer on February 12, 2015, in Gainesville, Florida, aged 68.

Achievements

• The next year, she won the Golf Writers Association of America"s William D. Richardson Award. Glenn began playing golf at age six, and won the Florida High School Athletic Association golf title twice. Glenn won the Florida East Coast Golf Tournament in 1965. She is the author or co-author of several books on golf, including The Illustrated History of Women"s Golf (1992 winner of the United States Golf Association International Book Award), Golf for Women, The Beginner"s Guide to Great Golf for Women, The Rules of Golf Simplified, The Junior Golf Book and Breaking the Mold: The Journey of the Only Woman President of the United States Golf Association.