Winter wonder

Taffy Brower raves about the Women’s International Four-Ball trophy. It’s a magnificent piece, and one that the 79-year-old is proud to have her name on – right next to partner Alexa Hammer, with whom she won the event in 2011.
Louise Suggs, an LPGA founder, appears first on that list of winners. World Golf Hall of Famers Babe Zaharias, Peggy Kirk Bell and Betsy Rawls all won it, too.
“Just having been able to play in the same tournaments as those marvelous players,” said Brower, who went into the Florida State Golf Association’s Hall of Fame in 2014. “At the time I thought I was such a big shot, but now I look at it and I say, ‘Wow, I got to play in the same tournaments that they played in, and these were big-time players.’”

This is common among the winter tournaments that make up what historically has been known as the Florida Orange Blossom Circuit. The Women’s International Four-Ball, which dates to the 1940s, is the fourth stop on a tour of central and south Florida that also includes the Citrus Golf Trail Ladies Invitational in...