5'7"...Started playing at the age of 12...Formerly on the LPGA Board...Credits her father, Lynn Smith and her first golf instructor Mike Murra as the individuals most influencing her career...Organizer of the Marilynn Smith Founders Classic, the first-ever senior women's professional golf tournament, which was held in Dallas from 1987-89...Helps organize the all-women's Marilynn Smith Golf Classic, which benefits the LPGA-USGA Girls Golf program and the Marilynn Smith Scholarship...In 1999, established the Marilynn Smith Scholarship within The LPGA Foundation...Has traveled to all 50 U.S. states and 36 different countries and has conducted golf clinics during many of those visits...The first female television commentator for a men's golf tournament (1973 U.S. Open and the Colonial)...Inducted into the Kansas Golf Hall of Fame in 1991 and the Texas Golf Hall of Fame in 1994...Inducted into the Kansas University Sports Hall of Fame in 1999...Inducted into the LPGA T&CP Hall of Fame and the Kansas Sports Hall of Fame in 2000...Inducted into the Wichita Sports Hall of Fame and the Wichita East High School Sports Hall of Fame in 2005...Inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2006...Received the 2006 Pinnacle Award for her outstanding achievements in golf...Recognized during the LPGA's 50th Anniversary in 2000 as one of the LPGA's top-50 players and teachers...Along with fellow LPGA Founder Louise Suggs, raised the U.S. flag at the Opening Ceremony of the 2007 Solheim Cup in Sweden...Hobbies include people, politics, photography, talk shows, dogs, historical travel and music, especially Latin music.
