- Younger sister of Alice Bauer.
- After the divorce from her first husband, Bob Hagge, he married her older sister, Alice Bauer.
- Became the youngest player to win an LPGA event in 1952 when she won the Sarasota Open at age 18. She reached the height of her profession at 22. In 1956, she set a then-LPGA Tour money record of $20,235, won eight tournaments, including beating Patty Berg in a sudden-death playoff to win the LPGA Championship, the lone major of her career, and won the tour's most improved player award. The last of her 26 LPGA Tour victories was the Burdine's Invitational in 1972.
- Turned professional two weeks before her 16th birthday in 1950. Together with her sister, Alice Bauer, and her parents, she traveled around the LPGA Tour in a 22-foot Airstream trailer. The sisters were graceful and petite, the tour's first glamour girls, and their fresh beauty attracted new fans to women's golf.
- First gripped a golf club at age three.
- Late in life, she married professional golfer Ernie Vossler.
- Elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2002.
- A child prodigy and charter member of the Ladies Professional Golf Association along with her older sister, Alice Bauer, is the third LPGA player voted into the World Golf Hall of Fame through the LPGA Tour's veteran's category.
- The first woman named to the South Dakota Sports Hall of Fame.
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