Jan Stephenson, a three-time main champion and World Golf Corridor of Fame member, has been identified with breast most cancers.
Her “Crossroads Basis” stated the most cancers was stage three and the 71-year-old Australian will start a remedy of chemotherapy and radiation within the subsequent two weeks.
“It means a lot to me for all my family and friends to lend a lot assist,” Stephenson stated in a press release on Thursday.
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“I’ve had some adverse challenges in my profession and managed to outlive. That is simply one other powerful gap that’s ‘uphill and in opposition to the wind.’ See you on my subsequent downhill and downwind gap!”
Stephenson was among the many first to deliver intercourse attraction to girls’s golf, a part of which was the design of former LPGA Tour Commissioner Ray Volpe.
Stephenson’s most well-known second exterior the ropes was posing in a bath, her physique lined solely by golf balls.
She backed up her movie star by successful 16 instances on the LPGA Tour, together with three majors. She was missing solely the Kraft Nabisco Championship to finish the profession grand slam.
She was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame in 2019 and likewise acquired the Order of Australia Medal.
Her basis helps disabled navy veterans and first responders.
– AAP
