Susie Maxwell Berning, the three-time U.S. Women's Open winner who was a pioneer as a mother while competing on the LPGA Tour, died Wednesday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. She was 83.

Susie Maxwell Berning, a three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion and World Golf Hall of Fame inductee who registered 11 LPGA Tour victories during a 33-year professional career, died on Oct. 2 at the ...

Maxwell Berning won 11 LPGA titles including four majors. She captured the U.S. Women's Open in 1968, 1972 and 1973. She also won the 1965 Women's Western Open, then considered a major.