TORONTO—Jocelyne Bourassa, a star Canadian golfer and the LPGA Tour’s Rookie of the Year in 1972, has died. She was 74. Her death was announced Thursday by Golf Canada, which did not give details. After her star rookie season on the LPGA Tour she was honored as the year’s best female athlete by The Canadian Press. She was also named to the Order of Canada in 1972. Bourassa’s eight-year LPGA Tour career was cut short by injuries. She began a second career immediately by becoming the du Maurier Classic’s executive director. “She’s an icon and a legend in Canadian women’s golf so she’s going to be missed by a lot of us,” Canadian Olympic golfer Alena Sharp said from Japan. “I hope her legend lives on with the younger generations.” Her biggest professional victory came in 1973 when she captured the inaugural La Canadienne in Montreal. No other Canadian won …
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