Passages: Notable golf deaths in 2019

In 2019, the golf world mourned the loss of architect Alice Dye, Gordon Brand Jr., Dan Jenkins and several others.

Marilynn Smith. (File photo)

Marilynn Smith

LPGA founder Marilynn Smith, one of 13 women who founded the LPGA in 1950, died in April at age 89. Smith was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2006.