Barbara White Boddie

Sport: Golf

Induction Year: 2008

University: Centenary

Induction Year: 2008

A Shreveport product, Barbara Fay White was one of America’s top amateur players in the 1960s – a three-time Curtis Cup selection and a two-time member of the U.S. team in the World Amateur. She never lost a match (3-0-1 in singles, 4-0-0 in foursomes) in two Curtis Cup appearances and had to withdraw from a third because of pregnancy.

She was second in the World Amateur individually in 1966 and helped lead the U.S. team to the Women’s World Amateur Championship. She was the medalist in the State Amateur six times. She was the Western Amateur champion in 1964 and 1966. She was the Broadmoor Amateur medalist and champion in 1964 and the medalist three times in the Southern Amateur, winning the 1967 championship and finishing second in 1963. She played on the LPGA tour in 1973-74 and won $3,500 in 1973 (including one second-place finish) and $4,000 in 1974.

She was Louisiana’s outstanding woman athlete in 1964, her peak year when she won five tournaments in Florida, was medalist in the Southern Amateur, won the Western Amateur and Broadmoor Invitational and made the Curtis Cup team, not losing a match in the U.S. victory. She finished 18th that year in the U.S. Women’s Open. She is one of 10 players in U.S. history to go 4-0 in a single Curtis Cup match, doing it in 1966.

She won her first  tournament when she was seven years old and beat older boys for a city junior title. Twice collegiately, she reached the NCAA Championships, representing both TCU and Centenary. She was 64 when she died Oct. 15, 2004, but was retired from competitive golf since the mid-1970s. She designed and built Crooked Hollow Golf Course outside of Shreveport.