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{{short description|American professional golfer}}
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{{Infobox golfer
| name              = Patty Berg
| image             = Patty Berg 1942 (cropped).jpg
| imagesize         = 190px
| caption           = Berg, circa 1942
| fullname          = Patricia Jane Berg
| nickname          = 
| birth_date        = {{Birth date|1918|2|13}}
| birth_place       = [[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]], U.S.
| death_date        = {{Death date and age|2006|9|10|1918|2|13}}
| death_place       = [[Fort Myers, Florida]], U.S.
| height            = <!--- {{height|ft=|in=}} ---> 
| weight            = 
| nationality       = {{USA}} 
| spouse            = 
| partner           = 
| children          = 
| college           = [[University of Minnesota]]
| yearpro           = 1940
| retired           = 
| extour            = [[LPGA Tour]] 
| prowins           = 63
| lpgawins          = 60 ([[List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins|4th all time]])
| otherwins         = 3
| majorwins         = 15
| western           = '''Won''': [[1941 Women's Western Open|1941]], [[1943 Women's Western Open|1943]], [[1948 Women's Western Open|1948]], [[1951 Women's Western Open|1951]], [[1955 Women's Western Open|1955]], [[1957 Women's Western Open|1957]], [[1958 Women's Western Open|1958]]
| titleholders      = '''Won''': [[1937 Titleholders Championship|1937]], [[1938 Titleholders Championship|1938]], [[1939 Titleholders Championship|1939]], [[1948 Titleholders Championship|1948]], [[1953 Titleholders Championship|1953]], [[1955 Titleholders Championship|1955]], [[1957 Titleholders Championship|1957]] 
| lpga              = 2nd: [[1956 LPGA Championship|1956]], [[1959 LPGA Championship|1959]]
| wusopen           = '''Won''': [[1946 U.S. Women's Open|1946]]
| wghofid           = patty-berg
| wghofyear         = 1951
| award1            = [[LPGA Tour#Leading money winners by year|LPGA Tour<br />Money Winner]]
| year1             = 1954, 1955, 1957
| award2            = [[LPGA]] [[LPGA Tour#LPGA Tour awards|Vare Trophy]]
| year2             = 1953, 1955, 1956
| award3            = [[Associated Press Athlete of the Year|Associated Press<br />Female Athlete of the Year]]
| year3             = 1938, 1943, 1955
| award4            = [[Bob Jones Award]]
| year4             = 1963
| award5            = [[Patty Berg Award]]
| year5             = 1990
| awardssection     = <!-- location of awards page or section -->
}}

'''Patricia Jane Berg''' (February 13, 1918 – September 10, 2006)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.pgatour.com/story/9650624/ |title=Golf pioneer Patty Berg passes away at 88 |publisher=PGA Tour |date=September 10, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828022430/http://www.pgatour.com/story/9650624/ |archive-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref> was an American [[professional golfer]]. She was a founding member and the first president of the [[LPGA]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.lpga.com/careers-about/about-our-founders |title=About the LPGA - Our Founders |publisher=LPGA |access-date=August 29, 2020 |archive-date=February 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180207182907/https://www.lpga.com/careers-about/about-our-founders |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="obit">{{cite news |last=Carlson |first=Michael |title=Patty Berg |work=The Guardian |date=September 12, 2006 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/12/guardianobituaries.gender |access-date=March 16, 2016}}</ref> Her 15 major title wins remains the all-time record for most major wins by a female golfer. She is a member of the [[World Golf Hall of Fame]].

In winter times she was also a [[speed skater]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://minneapolisparkhistory.com/2019/03/26/ice-queens-the-first-female-speedskaters-in-minnesota/|title = Ice Queens: The First Female Speed Skaters in Minnesota|date = March 26, 2019}}</ref>

==Amateur career==
Berg was born in [[Minneapolis|Minneapolis, Minnesota]], and expressed an interest in football at an early age. At one point, she played quarterback on a local team that included future [[Oklahoma Sooners football|Oklahoma Sooners]] head football coach [[Bud Wilkinson]]. At the age of 13, Berg took up golf in 1931 at the suggestion of her parents; by 1934, she began her [[amateur sports|amateur]] career and won the Minneapolis City Championship.<ref name="obit"/> The following year, Berg claimed a state amateur title.<ref name="Hickok">{{cite book|last=Hickok|first=Ralph|title=A Who's Who of Sports Champions: Their Stories and Records|publisher=Houghton Mifflin|year=1995|pages=[https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofsportsc00hick_0/page/63 63]–64|isbn=9780395733127|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoofsportsc00hick_0}}</ref> She attended the [[University of Minnesota]] where she was a member of [[Kappa Kappa Gamma]] sorority. She came to national attention by reaching the final of the 1935 [[U.S. Women's Amateur]], losing to [[Glenna Collett-Vare]] in Vare's final Amateur victory. Berg won the [[Titleholders Championship|Titleholders]] in 1937. In 1938, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur at Westmoreland<ref name="winsnattitle">{{cite news |url=http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/115 |title=Yesterday's News: Patty Berg, 20, wins first national title |date=September 26, 1938 |newspaper=Star Tribune |access-date=November 18, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081025084451/http://blogs2.startribune.com/blogs/oldnews/archives/115 |archive-date=October 25, 2008 }}</ref> and the [[Women's Western Amateur]]. With a victory in the [[1938 Titleholders Championship]] and a spot on the winning Curtis Cup team as well, Berg was selected as the [[Associated Press Athlete of the Year|Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year]], the first of three times she earned the honor.<ref name="obit"/> In 1939, Berg won her third consecutive Titleholders, although she was unable to compete in the U.S. Women's Amateur due to an operation on her appendix.<ref name="Kalb">{{cite book|last=Kalb|first=Elliott|title=Who's Better, Who's Best in Golf?|publisher=McGraw-Hill|year=2006|pages=237–240|isbn=9780071469777}}</ref>

==Professional career==
After winning 29 amateur titles, she turned [[professional sports|professional]] in 1940.<ref name="obit"/> Berg's career had been interrupted by an automobile accident in December 1941; while traveling to a fund-raising event with [[Helen Dettweiler]], a head-on accident shattered Berg's knee.

[[File:Patty Berg US Marines 1943.jpg|thumb|left|Berg being sworn into the [[United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve]] during [[World War II]].]]
Subsequently, she recovered and volunteered for the [[United States Marine Corps]] and was commissioned a second lieutenant in 1942.  She served in the [[United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve|Marine Reserves]] from 1942 to 1945.<ref name="LPGAbio">{{cite web |url=http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?pid=8002&mid=2 |title=Official LPGA Biography |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061017000903/http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?pid=8002&mid=2 |archive-date=October 17, 2006}}</ref><ref name="obit"/>

Despite concerns that her golfing career would end, Berg returned to the game in 1943, helped by a locker room fall that broke [[adhesions]] which had developed in her leg. Upon her comeback, she won the [[1943 Women's Western Open|Women's Western Open]].<ref name="Kalb"/> She won the inaugural [[U.S. Women's Open]] in 1946. In 1948, she helped establish the forerunner of the LPGA, the Women's Professional Golf Association (WPGA), winning three tournaments that season and in 1949.<ref name="Kalb"/> When the LPGA was officially started in 1950, Berg was one of the 13 founding members and held a leadership position as the association's first president.<ref name="obit"/> Berg won a total of 57 events on the LPGA and WPGA circuit, and was runner-up in the 1957 Open at [[Winged Foot Golf Club|Winged Foot]]. She was runner-up in the 1956 and 1959 [[LPGA Championship]]s.<ref name="obit"/> In addition, Berg won the 1953, 1957, and 1958 [[Women's Western Open]]s, the 1955 and 1957 Titleholders, both considered majors at the time. Her last victory came in 1962. She was voted the [[Associated Press Athlete of the Year|Associated Press Woman Athlete of the Year]] in 1942 and 1955, in addition to her 1938 award. During a four-year stretch from 1953 to 1956, Berg won the Vare Trophy three times for having the lowest scoring average on the LPGA.<ref name="Hickok"/> She was the LPGA Tour's top money winner twice, in 1954 and 1957, and her seven Titleholders wins is an all-time record.<ref name="obit"/> Berg won 15 [[women's major golf championships]] in her career, including the seven Titleholders victories, seven wins in the Women's Western Open, and the 1946 U.S. Women's Open championship.<ref name="Kalb"/>

In 1959, Berg became the first woman to hit a [[Hole in one|hole-in-one]] during a [[United States Golf Association|USGA]] competition, which happened at the [[U.S. Women's Open]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.lpga.com/players/patty-berg/82714/bio |title=Patty Berg |publisher=LPGA}}</ref>

In 1963, Berg was voted the recipient of the [[Bob Jones Award]], the highest honor given by the [[United States Golf Association]] in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. Berg received the 1986 [[Old Tom Morris Award]] from the [[Golf Course Superintendents Association of America]], GCSAA's highest honor. The LPGA established the [[Patty Berg Award]] in 1978. In her later years, Berg teamed-up with [[PGA Tour]] player and fellow [[Fort Myers, Florida]] resident [[Nolan Henke]] to establish the ''Nolan Henke/Patty Berg Junior Masters'' to promote the development of young players.

Berg was sponsored on the LPGA Tour her entire career by public golf patriarch [[Joe Jemsek]], owner of the famous [[Cog Hill Golf & Country Club]] in [[Lemont, Illinois]], site of the PGA Tour's [[Western Open]] from 1991 to 2006. Berg represented another of Jemsek's public facilities, [[St. Andrews Golf & Country Club]] in [[West Chicago, Illinois]], on the women's circuit for over 60 years.

Berg told ''[[Chicagoland Golf]]'' magazine she taught over 16,000 clinics in her lifetime – many of which were sponsored by [[Chicago]]-based [[Wilson Sporting Goods]] and were called "The Patty Berg Hit Parade." In that interview, Berg figured she personally indoctrinated to the game of golf over a half-million new players. She was a member of Wilson's Advisory Staff for 66 years, until her death.

She announced in December 2004 that she had been diagnosed with [[Alzheimer's disease]]. She died in Fort Myers from complications of the disease 21 months later at the age of 88.

==Professional wins (63)==

===LPGA Tour wins (60)===
*1937 (1) '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''' (as an amateur)
*1938 (1) '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''' (as an amateur)
*1939 (1) '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''' (as an amateur)
*1941 (3) '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', North Carolina Open, New York Invitational
*1943 (2) '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', [[All American Open (LPGA Tour)|All American Open]]
*1945 (1) [[All American Open (LPGA Tour)|All American Open]]
*1946 (4) Northern California Open, Northern California Medal Tournament, Pebble Beach Open, '''[[U.S. Women's Open]]'''
*1947 (3) Northern California Open, Pebble Beach Open, Northern California Medal Tournament
*1948 (3) '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''', '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', [[Hardscrabble Open]]
*1949 (3) [[Tampa Women's Open|Tampa Open]], Texas PGA Championship, [[Hardscrabble Open]]
*[[1950 LPGA Tour|1950]] (3) [[Eastern Women's Open|Eastern Open]], [[Sunset Hills Open]], [[Hardscrabble Women's Invitational]]
*[[1951 LPGA Tour|1951]] (5) [[Sandhills Women's Open]], [[Pebble Beach Weathervane]], [[New York Weathervane]], [[144 Hole Weathervane]], '''[[Women's Western Open]]'''
*[[1952 LPGA Tour|1952]] (3) [[New Orleans Women's Open]], [[Richmond Open (LPGA Tour)|Richmond Open]], [[New York Weathervane]]
*[[1953 LPGA Tour|1953]] (7) [[Jacksonville Ladies Open|Jacksonville Open]], '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''', [[New Orleans Women's Open]], [[Phoenix Weathervane]] (tied with [[Louise Suggs]]), [[Reno Open (LPGA Tour)|Reno Open]], [[All American Open (LPGA Tour)|All American Open]], [[World Championship (LPGA Tour)|World Championship]]
*[[1954 LPGA Tour|1954]] (3) [[Triangle Round Robin]], [[World Championship (LPGA Tour)|World Championship]], [[Ardmore Open (LPGA Tour)|Ardmore Open]]
*[[1955 LPGA Tour|1955]] (6) [[St. Petersburg Women's Open|St. Petersburg Open]], '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''', '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', [[All American Open (LPGA Tour)|All American Open]], [[World Championship (LPGA Tour)|World Championship]], [[Clock Open]]
*[[1956 LPGA Tour|1956]] (2) [[Mary Kay Classic|Dallas Open]], [[Arkansas Open]]
*[[1957 LPGA Tour|1957]] (5) [[Havana Open]], '''[[Titleholders Championship]]''', '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', [[All American Open (LPGA Tour)|All American Open]], [[World Championship (LPGA Tour)|World Championship]]
*[[1958 LPGA Tour|1958]] (2) '''[[Women's Western Open]]''', [[American Women's Open]]
*[[1960 LPGA Tour|1960]] (1) [[American Women's Open]]
*[[1962 LPGA Tour|1962]] (1) [[Muskogee Civitan Open]]

LPGA [[Women's major golf championships|majors]] are shown in '''bold.'''

===Other wins (3)===
*1944 Pro-Lady Victory National (with [[Johnny Revolta]])
*1950 Orlando Two-Ball (with [[Earl Stewart]])
*1954 Orlando Two-Ball (with [[Pete Cooper (golfer)|Pete Cooper]])

==Major championships==

===Wins (15)===
{|class="sortable wikitable"
!Year!!Championship!!Winning score!!Margin!!Runner(s)-up
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1937 Titleholders Championship|1937]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]]  ||+3 (80-87-73=240)||3 strokes ||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Dorothy Kirby]] (a)
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1938 Titleholders Championship|1938]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]] ||−5 (78-79-77-77=311)||14 strokes ||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Jane Cothran]] (a)
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1939 Titleholders Championship|1939]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]]  ||+19 (78-78-83-80=319)||2 strokes ||{{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy Kirby (a)
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1941 Women's Western Open|1941]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||colspan=2 align=center|7 & 6 ||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Mrs. Burt Weil]]
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1943 Women's Western Open|1943]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||colspan=2 align=center|1 up ||{{flagicon|USA}} Dorothy Kirby (a)
|-style="background:#FBCEB1;"
| [[1946 U.S. Women's Open|1946]] ||[[U.S. Women's Open]] ||colspan=2 align=center|4 & 3 || {{flagicon|USA}} [[Betty Jameson]]
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1948 Titleholders Championship|1948]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]] ||+8 (80-74-78-76=308)||1 stroke ||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Peggy Kirk]], {{flagicon|USA}} [[Babe Zaharias]]
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1948 Women's Western Open|1948]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||colspan=2 align=center|37 holes ||{{flagicon|USA}} Babe Zaharias
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1951 Women's Western Open|1951]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||colspan=2 align=center|2 up||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Pat O'Sullivan]] (a)
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1953 Titleholders Championship|1953]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]] ||+6 (72-74-73-75=294)||9 strokes||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Betsy Rawls]]
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1955 Titleholders Championship|1955]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]] ||+3 (76-68-74-73=291)||2 strokes||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Mary Lena Faulk]]
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1955 Women's Western Open|1955]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||E (73-75-71-73=292)||2 strokes||{{flagicon|URY}} [[Fay Crocker]], {{flagicon|USA}} [[Louise Suggs]]
|-style="background:#FFFF99;"
| [[1957 Titleholders Championship|1957]] ||[[Titleholders Championship]] ||+8 (78-71-78-69=296)||3 strokes||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Anne Quast]] (a)
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1957 Women's Western Open|1957]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||−1 (72-70-75-74=291)||1 stroke||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Wiffi Smith]]
|-style="background:#FFCC99;"
| [[1958 Women's Western Open|1958]] ||[[Women's Western Open]] ||+1 (75-72-71-75=293)||4 strokes||{{flagicon|USA}} [[Beverly Hanson]]
|}

===Results timeline===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1937
!1938
!1939
|-
|align=left|[[Women's Western Open]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|QF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|-
|align=left|[[Titleholders Championship]]
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1940
!1941
!1942
!1943
!1944
!1945
!1946
!1947
!1948
!1949
|-
|align=left|[[Women's Western Open]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|QF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
|-
|align=left|[[Titleholders Championship]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|4
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|T2
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Women's Open]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|9
|style="background:yellow;"|T4
|style="background:yellow;"|T4
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1950
!1951
!1952
!1953
!1954
!1955
!1956
!1957
!1958
!1959
|-
|align=left|[[Women's Western Open]]
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|QF
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|SF
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|T4
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|T2
|-
|align=left|[[Titleholders Championship]]
|style="background:yellow;"|T8
|style="background:yellow;"|T3
|style="background:yellow;"|T3
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:lime;"|'''1'''
|style="background:yellow;"|3
|style="background:yellow;"|T8
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Women's Open]]
|style="background:yellow;"|5
|style="background:yellow;"|8
|style="background:yellow;"|9
|style="background:yellow;"|3
|12
|style="background:yellow;"|5
|style="background:yellow;"|T3
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|T9
|style="background:yellow;"|6
|-
|align=left|[[LPGA Championship]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NYF
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|style="background:yellow;"|7
|12
|style="background:yellow;"|2
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1960
!1961
!1962
!1963
!1964
!1965
!1966
!1967
!1968
!1969
|-
|align=left|[[Women's Western Open]]
|T13
|T15
|style="background:yellow;"|T3
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|14
|style="background:yellow;"|9
|WD
|T11
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|-
|align=left|[[Titleholders Championship]]
|style="background:yellow;"|T4
|style="background:yellow;"|T2
|style="background:yellow;"|4
|22
|T15
|23
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Women's Open]]
|17
|18
|T13
|T29
|style="background:yellow;"|10
|T22
|T18
|39
|T29
|CUT
|-
|align=left|[[LPGA Championship]]
|style="background:yellow;"|4
|20
|T13
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|12
|T11
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|T22
|T22
|T17
|}
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;text-align:center;"
!Tournament
!1970
!1971
!1972
!1973
!1974
!1975
!1976
!1977
!1978
!1979
|-
|align=left|[[Titleholders Championship]]
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|T36
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|NT
|-
|align=left|[[U.S. Women's Open]]
|31
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|CUT
|CUT
|CUT
|CUT
|-
|align=left|[[LPGA Championship]]
|T17
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|T51
|CUT
|CUT
|CUT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|CUT
|style="background:#eeeeee;"|
|}
{{legend|lime|Win}}
{{legend|yellow|Top 10}}
{{legend|#eeeeee|Did not play}}
NYF = tournament not yet founded<br />
NT = no tournament<br />
CUT = missed the half-way cut<br />
R16, QF, SF = round in which player lost in match play<br />
"T" indicates a tie for a place

===Summary===
*Starts – 97
*Wins – 15
*2nd-place finishes – 10
*3rd-place finishes – 10
*Top 3 finishes – 35
*Top 5 finishes – 47
*Top 10 finishes – 57
*Top 25 finishes – 78
*Missed cuts – 12
*Most consecutive cuts made – 79
*Longest streak of top-10s – 32

==Team appearances==
'''Amateur'''
*[[Curtis Cup]] (representing the United States): [[1936 Curtis Cup|1936]] (tie, Cup retained), [[1938 Curtis Cup|1938]] (winners)

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}
*[[List of golfers with most LPGA Tour wins]]
*[[List of golfers with most LPGA major championship wins]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
*{{LPGA player|patty-berg/82714}}
*[http://www.lpga.com/content_1.aspx?mid=2&pid=2502 Patty Berg Award]
*{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080216205518/http://golf.about.com/od/golferswomen/p/patty_berg.htm |title=Patty Berg at golf.about.com |date=2008-02-16 }}

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{{Women's Western Open Champions}}
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