"LPGA Champion" Colleen Walker Hand Signed 3X5 Card Todd Mueller COA

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"LPGA Champion" Colleen Walker Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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Colleen Walker
(August 16, 1956 – December 11, 2012) was an American professional golfer who played on the
LPGA Tour
. Walker was born in
Jacksonville, Florida
. She started playing golf at the age of 14. At the age of 18, she was named the 1974 Palm Beach Post Athlete and Player of the Year. She won the Florida All-State Golf Award in 1976. She attended
Florida State University
where she won most valuable player honors from 1977–1978. Walker turned professional in September 1981 and played on the Tampa Bay Mini-Tour. She joined the
LPGA Tour
in 1982 after winning the
LPGA Final Qualifying Tournament
. She won nine tour titles, the first of them in 1987 and the last in 1997, including one
major championship
, the 1997
du Maurier Ltd. Classic
. In 1988, she won the
LPGA Vare Trophy
for lowest scoring average, was named Most Improved Player by
Golf Digest
, and finished a career high fifth on the money list, one of four times she finished in the top ten. She was inducted into the Florida State University Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Palm Beach County Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. Walker joined the Legends Tour in 2001, winning her first tournament that year. After being diagnosed with
breast cancer
in January 2003, she underwent chemotherapy and radiation. She would rejoin the tour in September. She finished in a tie for 10th at a senior event, essentially an attempt to see if she could still play. She retired from the LPGA Tour in 2004. Walker died on December 11, 2012, in
Valrico, Florida
, of a cancer recurrence that was diagnosed in late 2011. She was 56.