Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias, born in 1911 and considered the best athlete of her time, excelled in multiple sports before becoming one of golf’s greatest players. A two-time member of the amateur Women’s All-American basketball team, she starred in the 1932 Olympics by setting a world record in the javelin, winning gold in the 80-meter hurdles, and taking silver in the high jump after being penalized for her technique. She began playing serious golf three years later at age 22 and went on to win 17 straight amateur tournaments, including the 1946 U.S. Women’s Amateur All-American Open, as well as three world championships from 1949 to 1951. She also won the Women’s Western Open three times, became the first American to win the British Women’s Open in 1947, set a 72-hole record in the 1951 Tampa Open, cofounded the LPGA with Patty Berg in 1949, entered the LPGA Hall of Fame in 1951, and was named Outstanding Woman Athlete of the year by the Associated Press from 1949 to 1954. In Tampa, the golf course later named for her began in 1925 as the Northside Country Club, soon renamed Forest Hills, and was designed by J. Franklin Meehan as part of an upscale community developed by Burks L. Hamner, with an English Tudor Revival clubhouse built in 1926 as its center among golf, tennis, and stables. Babe Didrikson met George Zaharias at the 1938 Los Angeles Open, where she was the only woman competing in the PGA, and after George learned that Forest Hills Golf Course was for sale, he bought it in 1949. Together they restored the course and renamed it the Tampa Golf and Country Club, and in 1950 Babe became the winter golf professional as Forest Hills prospered during the postwar housing boom. The restored course and Babe herself helped drive the neighborhood’s rebirth. After the couple moved to Texas following Babe’s cancer diagnosis, she died in 1956. The City of Tampa later took over the course, completed a rehabilitation project sensitive to its design, and reopened it in 1974 under her name.