Golfer Jocelyne Bourassa dies at 74

Quebec golfer Jocelyne Bourassa has died at the age of 74, according to what the website has learned In the 19th.

A pioneer of Quebec and Canadian golf, Ms. Bourassa has won the Quebec Junior Championship three times and the Canadian Amateur Championship four times.

During the 1960s and 1970s, she won three Quebec Junior Championships (1963, 1964 and 1965), four Amateur Championships (1963, 1969, 1970 and 1971) and represented Quebec eight times, including four as a junior. (1962, 1963, 1964 and 1965) and four more as an amateur (1968, 1969, 1970 and 1971).

New to the women’s professional circuit in 1972, she surprised everyone with her performances which earned her the titles of Outstanding LPGA Rookie, Female Athlete of the Year in Canada and the Order of Canada.

The best moment of her professional career remains unquestionably her victory at the first edition of the La Canadienne tournament, played at the Montreal Municipal golf club on June 18, 1973. Jocelyne Bourassa became the first Quebecer to win an LPGA tournament and remains the only one to have achieved this feat. It was not until the arrival of the very popular Brooke Henderson that a Canadian player again won the top honors of the Canadian Women’s Open.

During a brilliant eight-year career on the LPGA Tour, Jocelyne Bourrasa was to be among the top 20 scholarship recipients in 1972 and 1975. Due to injuries, but still far from retirement, she devoted herself to the Classique du Maurier as Executive Director in 1979 and created the Series du Maurier, a Canadian development program for amateur and professional golfers.

Inducted into the Quebec Sports Hall of Fame in 1992, the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and the Quebec Golf Hall of Fame in 1996, Jocelyne Bourassa could have taken a step back and enjoyed a well-deserved retirement.

Golf Québec paid tribute to him in 2010 by creating the Jocelyne Bourassa Series which was, in a way, the equivalent of the men’s Triple Crown for women. It is with enthusiasm and good humor that she made it a point of honor to greet the participating players when her schedule permitted.

In 2013, she received the Pierre-Nadon Prize awarded annually by the grouping of golf chroniclers in Quebec in collaboration with Golf Quebec. This tribute aims to recognize the contribution of a person who left his mark by actively working for the development and advancement of Quebec golf and this, very often in the shadows as he will have done in the last years of his career. career.