Mary Bea Porter-King (pictured in 2014) promotes golf as a past LPGA champion to a new generation of players. USGA, Steven Gibbons
For Mary Bea Porter-King, recovering from replacements to both knees simultaneously is just another remarkable story in her life in golf that weaves its way through the headline names of the game and ends up in America’s Pacific paradise of Hawaii.
“After the first week, I was two weeks ahead of schedule, and after two weeks, my range of motion is close to where they want me to be,” Porter-King, a former LPGA champion, said of her surgery in early February. “I met a nice woman who was freaking out about my progress. She said: ‘How do you put your socks on?’ I guess it’s good to be a tough old lady.”
Mary Bea Porter, a gifted athlete as a youngster in southern California, was introduced to golf at age 7 by Betty Hicks, the 1941 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion. She and the other youngsters received pointers on…
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