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1980 Ladies European Tour
The 1980 Ladies European Tour was the second season of golf tournaments organised by the Women's Professional Golfers' Association (WPGA), which later became the Ladies European Tour (LET). The tour was principally sponsored by Carlsberg, who organised ten 36-hole tournaments counting towards their own Order of Merit. There were eleven other tournaments on the schedule including the Women's British Open, organised by the Ladies' Golf Union. The Order of Merit was won by Muriel Thomson, who also topped the Carlsberg Order of Merit. Tournaments The table below shows the 1980 schedule. The numbers in brackets after the winners' names show the number of career wins they had on the Ladies European Tour up to and including that event. This is only shown for members of the tour. Major championship in bold. Order of Merit and money list The Order of Merit was sponsored by Hambro Life and based on a points system. Carlsberg Order of Merit The Carlsberg Order of Merit was based o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muriel Thomson
Muriel Natalie Thomson (born 12 December 1954) is a retired Scottish professional golfer. Thomson was an amateur golfer in Scotland before playing on the Ladies European Tour from 1979 to 1989. During her time on the tour, she won the Order of Merit title in 1980 and 1983 while winning nine tournaments overall. In team events, Thomson was part of the team that won the 1977 Vagliano Trophy and played at the 1978 Curtis Cup. Early life and education On 12 December 1954, Thomson was born in Aberdeen, Scotland. She began golfing at the age of eight years old. Career Thomson worked in banking while she was an amateur golfer. In Scotland, she won the North of Scotland championship from 1973 to 1974 and the Helen Holm championship from 1975 to 1976. She was also runner-up in the 1977 Scottish Women's Amateur Championship. After leaving banking to become a professional golfer in 1979, Thomson joined the Women's Professional Golf Association, now known as the Ladies European Tour. Thom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christine Langford
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The Glasgow Herald
''The Herald'' is a Scottish broadsheet newspaper founded in 1783. ''The Herald'' is the longest running national newspaper in the world and is the eighth oldest daily paper in the world. The title was simplified from ''The Glasgow Herald'' in 1992. Following the closure of the ''Sunday Herald'', the ''Herald on Sunday'' was launched as a Sunday edition on 9 September 2018. History Founding The newspaper was founded by an Edinburgh-born printer called John Mennons in January 1783 as a weekly publication called the ''Glasgow Advertiser''. Mennons' first edition had a global scoop: news of the treaties of Versailles reached Mennons via the Lord Provost of Glasgow just as he was putting the paper together. War had ended with the American colonies, he revealed. ''The Herald'', therefore, is as old as the United States of America, give or take an hour or two. The story was, however, only carried on the back page. Mennons, using the larger of two fonts available to him, put it in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belle Robertson
Isabella Robertson (née McCorkindale) (born 11 April 1936) is a Scottish golfer who won the British Ladies Amateur in 1981. Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup as a player on seven occasions and twice as non-playing captain. She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Career Robertson learned to play golf at Dunaverty Golf Club in Argyll, Scotland. She won the British Ladies Amateur title in 1981 at Conwy Golf Club in Caernarvonshire, Wales, having been runner-up three times: 1959 at Royal Ascot Golf Club, 1965 at St Andrews, and at Gullane Golf Club in 1970. She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship on seven occasions. Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland as a player on seven occasions in the Curtis Cup (1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1982, 1986). She was a non-playing captain in 1974 and 1976. On her ninth appearance in the competition, she experienced victory for the first time, beating the U.S. team 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marta Figueras-Dotti
Marta Figueras-Dotti (born 12 November 1957) is a retired Spanish professional golfer. Early life Figueras-Dotti was born in Madrid and her father was the president of the Spanish Golf Association. She started playing golf at 8 years of age. Amateur career Figueras-Dotti represented Spain seven straight years at the European Lady Junior's Team Championship, for players up to the age of 21, 1973–1979, being on the winning team in 1975 and 1977 and also winning individually in 1977. She won several amateur tournaments in Europe, including the Spanish Closed Amateur and the French and Italian Open Amateur Championships in the same year, 1979. At the 1979 European Ladies' Team Championship, where she was part of the Spanish team, at Hermitage Golf Club, outside Dublin, Ireland, she won the individual stroke-play part of the competition, three strokes ahead of the nearest competitor. She played college golf at the University of Southern California, where she was an All-American ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Massey
Debbie Massey (born November 5, 1950) is an American professional golfer. Before joining the LPGA Tour, Massey worked as a skiing instructor. She was LPGA rookie of the year in 1977. Massey won three events on the LPGA Tour, not including back-to-back victories in the Women's British Open, which is now one of the LPGA's major championships. Amateur wins *1972 Women's Western Amateur *1974 Canadian Women's Amateur *1975 Canadian Women's Amateur, South Atlantic Amateur, Eastern Amateur, Women's Western Amateur *1976 Canadian Women's Amateur Professional wins LPGA Tour wins (3) LPGA Tour playoff record (1–3) Ladies European Tour wins (2) * 1980 Women's British Open *1981 Women's British Open U.S. national team appearances Amateur *Curtis Cup: 1974 (winners), 1976 (winners) *Espirito Santo Trophy: 1974 (winners), 1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxine Burton
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Cathy Panton
Catherine Rita Panton-Lewis (born 14 June 1955) is a Scottish professional golfer who was a founding member of the Ladies European Tour and won its first Order of Merit. Her father was John Panton, MBE, a professional golfer who played on three Ryder Cup teams. Panton was born in Bridge of Allan, Scotland. As an amateur, she won the British Ladies Amateur in 1976, winning 1-up over Alison Sheard. Later that year, she was a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Espirito Santo Trophy team. She was captain of the University of Edinburgh golf team in 1976 and 1977, and was Scottish Universities Champion in 1977. She was named Scottish Sportswoman of the Year in 1976. Panton turned professional in 1978, the same year that the Women's Professional Golf Association was founded as a division of the PGA of Great Britain and Ireland. In 1979 she participated in the first season of the Women's Professional Golf Association's tour (later the Ladies European Tour) and topped the tour's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dale Reid
Dale Reid (born 20 March 1959) is a Scottish professional golfer from Ladybank, Fife. She is one of the most successful players in the history of the Ladies European Tour, with 21 tournament victories. She topped the Order of Merit in 1984 and 1987 and was made a life member of the tour after collecting her 20th title at the 1991 Ford Classic. She played for Europe in the first four Solheim Cups (1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996) and was Europe's non-playing captain in 2000 and 2002. She worked full-time in a care home in Cupar, Fife for a short time as a social care worker, shortly after leaving this job she moved to Australia where she now resides. Reid was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire on the 2001 Queen's New Year's Honours List, following the 2000 Solheim Cup win. Crash In 2010 while driving with her partner in Gladstone, Queensland, she was a victim of a fatal crash with a truck. She survived with minor cuts and bruises, but the driver of the other truck, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mickey Walker (golfer)
Carol Michelle Walker (born 17 December 1952) is an English professional golfer. Life Walker was born in Leeds, Yorkshire, England. She won the Hovis International in 1972. She turned professional in 1973 and played on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour from 1974 to 1981. Her best finish was a T-2 at the 1976 Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Classic where she lost a four-player playoff to Sandra Palmer. Walker was a founding member of the Ladies European Tour and won six times on the tour between 1979 and 1984. Walker was Europe's Solheim Cup captain the first four times the Cup was held (1990, 1992, 1994 and 1996), captaining Europe to its first victory in the competition in 1992. She coached the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team in 1994, 1996 and 1998. She has been appointed captain of the 2019 European team for the Junior Solheim Cup at Gleneagles. Walker was head professional at the Warren Golf Club in Essex from 1986 to 2001. In the 1993 Birthday Honours list she was appoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Lee Smith
Jennifer Constance Lee Smith (born 2 December 1948) is an English golfer, known for winning the inaugural Women's British Open in 1976 at Fulford Golf Club, York, England and later winning the Order of Merit on the Women's Professional Golf Association tour (now Ladies European Tour) in 1981 and 1982. Lee-Smith was born and raised in Newcastle upon Tyne and started playing golf at a relatively young age. After some success in regional tournaments in the late 1960s and early 1970s, she began to play in international tournaments. She was a member of the Great Britain Curtis Cup team in both 1974 and 1976, represented England in the 1975 European Team Championships, and played for Great Britain & Ireland in the 1976 Espirito Santo Trophy. In 1976, while still an amateur, Lee-Smith won the inaugural Ladies' British Open (now the Women's British Open). There were only a handful of professional women golfers in the United Kingdom at the time, and the field was mostly made up of amate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volvo International Tournament
The Volvo Ladies Invitational was a women's professional golf tournament on the Ladies European Tour held in Sweden. It was played in 1980 and 1981 at Albatross Golf Club near Gothenburg. The tournament was the first LET event held in Sweden and only the second LET event outside the United Kingdom, after the WPGA European Championship held in France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans. Its metropolitan area .... Format The event was a limited field invitational with a field consisting of the top 24 players from the LET Order of Merit. The tournament was played over three rounds with the score based on the best of the two first rounds along with the final round. Winners Source: References {{reflist External linksLadies European Tour Former Ladies European Tour events Golf tournaments ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
