Canadian golf legend Jocelyne Bourassa has died at the age of 74.
The native of Shawinigan, Que., first distinguished herself as an amateur, winning three Quebec Junior Championships and four Quebec Amateur Championships .
Bourassa also won the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1965 and again in 1971 and then turned pro the following year.That helped her garner the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award that year as The Canadian Press's best female athlete.Her biggest professional victory came the following year when she captured the inaugural La Canadienne at the Municipal Golf Club in Montreal.
No other Canadian was able to win the Canadian Women's Open until Brooke Henderson's victory 45 years later in Regina. Bourassa's eight-year LPGA Tour career was cut short by injuries but she began a second career immediately by becoming the du Maurier Classic's executive director.
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