"The Founders" is headed to the big screen.The documentary film telling the story of the 13 pioneers who founded the LPGA is scheduled for limited release in theaters around the country later this month.The movie documents the founding of the LPGA in 1950, detailing the story of how the original members overcame obstacles to building the tour while barnstorming the country in a caravan of automobiles. Its storylines include Babe Zaharias importance to the tours early success and the internal struggles that came with Zaharias larger-than-life personality and her rivalry with fellow founder Louise Suggs.With the support of the LPGA, Mighty Fine Pictures joined with Level 33 Entertainment and GATHR Films in transferring the documentary from the festival film circuit to the big screen.Filmmakers Charlene Fisk and Carrie Schrader interviewed surviving founders of the tour and also uncovered rarely seen films of the founders that had been stored away for years in boxes and basements, footage of founders Alice Bauer, Patty Berg, Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Marlene Bauer Hagge, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Jameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Suggs and Zaharias as they made their way across the country that first year of the tour.LPGA pros Karrie Webb and Stacy Lewis helped fund the film, which overcame a number of financial challenges in its making.For more information on where to find a screening of the film, or to host a screening, go to thefoundersfilm.com/screenings/. The films Facebook page can be found at facebook.com/Thefoundersfilm.
"The Founders" is headed to the big screen. The documentary film telling the story of the 13 pioneers who founded the LPGA is scheduled for limited release in theaters around the country later
"The Founders" film to be released in cinemas this month
Tears and laughter filled the Tiburon I Room of the Ritz Carlton during Wednesday night's special first screening of "The Founders," a film about the 13 founding members of the LPGA.
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Against the odds, the 13 Founding Members established a lasting and global sporting legacy. DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., May 3, 2017 - "The Founders" film, an inspiring story for the ages which documents the creation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in 1950 by 13 remarkable female golfers, is finally set for public release in cinemas nationwide later this month.
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If the LPGA founders are heroes, so too are the people who gave of their time, energy, and dollars to bring this project to fruition. We will let the reader be the judge. We received this release . LPGA Founders Coming to the Big Screen. By Rick Woelfel
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The big screen documentary The Founders chronicles stories of the founding 13 members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association as they fought overcome incredible odds in order to form the longest running women's sports organization in the world in the late 1940's.
The Founders Film. 4,366 likes · 2 talking about this. A film about 13 dynamic women who transformed the game of golf with the creation of the LPGA in 1950.
"The Founders" film to be released in cinemas this month
The LPGA - Ladies Professional Golf Association - was founded in 1950 by 13 women. Those 13 LPGA founders met, set down bylaws, elected officers (Patty Berg was the first president), hired Fred Corcoran (Babe Zaharias' business manager) as tournament director, and set out organizing, running and playing in tournaments.
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla., May 3, 2017 - "The Founders" film, an inspiring story for the ages which documents the creation of the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) in 1950 by 13 remarkable
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LPGA documentary The Founders premieres at Atlanta Film Festival golfers who banded together to create the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1950, issues a warning and a challenge to the
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