Mary Capouch was elected in 2022 as the first female president of the Louisiana Golf Association (LGA).
It has been said, frequently, that golf is a game for a lifetime. Louisiana’s Mary Legg Capouch is a shining personification of that observation.
Capouch grew up in Champaign, Illinois, and was introduced to the game by her parents at age 10. She fell in love with golf, to the exclusion of all other childhood pursuits. She enrolled in the University of Illinois in her hometown, long before Title IX; there was no women’s golf team in the mid-1960s. Most of her golf at that time consisted of local events in central Illinois. The highlight: winning the 1966 Champaign Country Club women’s championship in a 37-hole thriller after her freshman year.
Upon graduating with a degree in communications, she took a job at Mademoiselle magazine, part of the fabled Condé Nast publishing company. She did not play a lot of golf in New York C…
