Val Skinner
Val Skinner is a six-time winner on the Ladies Professional Golf Association tour who ranks among the tour’s all-time leading money winners. She also has been a leader in the fundraising efforts within the LPGA to eradicate the breast cancer and was the tour’s Susan G. Komen Award winner in 1999.
Born in Montana and presently residing in Delray Beach, FL., Val was the 1974 and 1978 Nebraska junior girls state champion, the 1976 and 1978 Class A state girls high school champion as a student at North Platte High School and the 1980 Nebraska women’s match-play champion.
At Oklahoma State, she was Big Eight champion in 1980 and 1982 as well as the conference’s outstanding female athlete of the year in 1981-1982. The NCAA and AIAW All-American was Golf Magazine’s college player of the year for 1982.
Her pro career, which started in 1983, has included a pair of three-year streaks in which she won tournaments each year. She was ninth on the LPGA money list in 1995 and 10th in 1996. She has won more than $2.4 million on the tour.
Val is the chairman of LIFE (LPGA Professionals in the Fight to Eradicate breast cancer), a charity that features a pro-am in Jackson, NJ to benefit the New Jersey Cancer Institute and the Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. She also has appeared frequently in her adopted home state for charity golf events and has established the Val Skinner Foundation.
