Canadian golfer Dawn Coe-Jones dies after battle with cancer

Canadian golfer Dawn Coe-Jones dies after battle with cancer

Updated Mar. 4, 2020 11:05 a.m. ET

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) Dawn Coe-Jones, the Canadian Golf Hall of Famer who won three times on the LPGA Tour, died Saturday after a battle with cancer. She was 56.

Fellow former Canadian LPGA Tour player Gail Graham, Golf Canada and The Legends Tour said Saturday that Coe-Jones died at a hospice near her home in Tampa. She was diagnosed with bone cancer this year.

From Lake Cowichan, British Columbia, Coe-Jones played on the LPGA Tour from 1984 to 2008. She won more than $3.3 million and had 44 career top-10 finishes.

Coe-Jones won the 1983 Canadian Women's Amateur and starred at Lamar University. She won LPGA Tour's 1992 Women's Kemper Open, 1994 LPGA Palm Beach Classic and 1995 Tournament of Champions.

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She was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 2003.

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