Val Skinner

(1960- ) lived in North Platte. Professional golf player, has six major wins on Ladies Professional Golf Association Tour from 1985 to 1995, played on the 1996 U.S. Solheim Cup team (the ladies’ equivalent of the Ryder Cup), her career money winnings surpass $2 million; serves as fundraiser for charities, and was first woman to be inducted into the Oklahoma State University Hall of Honors. Consult Women’s Sports and Fitness (July 1986) 26 and Omaha World Herald, February 10, 1998, pp. 21, 25 and Lincoln Journal Star, April 20, 2003, p. D-5 and Sunday World Herald, April 17, 2005, p. C-5.

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