Australian golf legend Jan Stephenson identified with breast most cancers

Australian nice Jan Stephenson — a three-time main champion and World Golf Corridor of Fame member — has been identified with breast most cancers.

Stephenson’s Crossroads Basis – which helps disabled army veterans and first responders — mentioned the most cancers was stage 3.

The 71-year-old will start remedy with chemotherapy and radiation within the subsequent two weeks.

“It means a lot to me for all my family and friends to lend a lot assist,” Stephenson mentioned in an announcement.

“I’ve had some unfavorable challenges in my profession and managed to outlive. That is simply one other robust gap that’s ‘uphill and in opposition to the wind’.

“See you on my subsequent downhill and downwind gap!”

Stephenson gained 16 instances on the LPGA Tour, along with her first victory coming in 1976.

She claimed her majors within the early Eighties, highlighted by her victories within the Ladies’s PGA Championship (1982) and the US Ladies’s Open (1983).

She obtained the Order of Australia Medal in 2018 and was inducted into the World Golf Corridor of Fame the next yr.

AAP