Susie Maxwell Berning drove a car with a memorable and hard-earned license plate that read “3USOPEN.” It commemorated the three times she won the biggest championship in women’s golf, among the four major titles and 11 career LPGA victories that helped her be inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022.

Hall of Fame golfer Susie Maxwell Berning has died at age 83 after a battle with lung cancer. The LPGA says it lost a great ambassador and a pioneer for women raising children on tour.

Ron Sirak is recipient of the PGA of America Lifetime Achievement in Journalism Award and the LPGA Media Excellence Award. He's covered more than 150 major championships for The Associated Press and Golf World magazine and co-authored three Vision54 books with renown teachers Lynn Marriott and Pia Nilsson.

Susie Maxwell Berning, the three-time U.S. Women's Open winner who was a pioneer as a mother while competing on the LPGA Tour, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. She was 83.

Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time U.S. Women's Open champion and World Golf Hall of Fame member, died Wednesday. She was 83. The USGA confirmed Maxwell Berning's death in a release. "Susie was a true trailblazer from the moment she picked up a golf club,

Susie Maxwell holds the silver trophy after winning the 36th annual Women's Western golf tournament on June 14, 1965, in Chicago.

She was part of the fabric of The Reserve,” said Kelly, the general manager at The Reserve Club in Indian Wells. That’s where Berning, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion and inductee into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2022,