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1948 Curtis Cup
The 5rd Curtis Cup Match was played on 21 and 22 May 1948 at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, England. The United States won 6 to 2. The United States won two of the three foursomes matches and won four and halved another of the six singles. Format The contest was played over two days, with three foursomes on the first day and six singles matches on the second day, a total of 9 points. Matches were over 18 holes. Each of the 9 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 5 points won the competition. Teams Diana Critchley did not play in any matches. Friday's foursomes matches Saturday's singles matches Diana Critchley was due to play in the final singles match, but withdrew due to illness and was replaced by Zara Bolton. References {{Authority control Curtis Cup Golf tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Royal Birkdale Golf Club is a golf course in the United Kingdom in North West England, located in Southport, Merseyside. It is one of the clubs in the rotation for both the Open Championship and Women's British Open and has hosted the Open Championship ten times from 1954 through 2017. Winners of the Open at the course include Pádraig Harrington, Mark O'Meara, Ian Baker-Finch, Tom Watson, Johnny Miller, Lee Trevino, Arnold Palmer, Peter Thomson (twice) and Jordan Spieth. Royal Birkdale hosted the women's tournament for a sixth time in 2014, and was the site of the Senior Open Championship in 2013. It has also hosted the Ryder Cup (1965, 1969), the Walker Cup (1951), and the Curtis Cup (1948). Other courses in the Open rota near Liverpool are Royal Liverpool Golf Club (Hoylake) and Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club. On 22 July 2017, in the third round of the 2017 Open Championship, Branden Grace became the first man in major championship history to record a score of 62 in a sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maureen Ruttle
Maureen Doris Ruttle Garrett (22 August 1922 – 30 July 2011) was an English amateur golfer. During her playing career, Garrett played at multiple editions of the British Ladies Amateur. Her best performances were semifinal finishes at the 1946 and 1948 editions. In United States tournaments, Garrett was tied for 11th at the 1947 Titleholders Championship. Outside of her playing career, Garrett was the president of the Ladies' Golf Union between 1982 and 1984. Garrett was the recipient of the 1983 Bob Jones Award from the United States Golf Association. Biography Garrett was born on 22 August 1922 and grew up in London, England. As a teenager, Garrett played golf and was coached by Archie Compston. While completing her education, Garrett appeared in over ten golf competitions during wartime. Throughout World War II, Garrett was a secretary at a doctor's office before becoming a farmhand for the Women's Land Army. For her golfing career, Garrett appeared in multiple editions of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1948 In Women's Golf
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Sport In Lancashire
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, through casual or organized participation, improve participants' physical health. Hundreds of sports exist, from those between single contestants, through to those with hundreds of simultaneous participants, either in teams or competing as individuals. In certain sports such as racing, many contestants may compete, simultaneously or consecutively, with one winner; in others, the contest (a ''match'') is between two sides, each attempting to exceed the other. Some sports allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure one winner and one loser. A number of contests may be arranged in a tournament producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
International Sports Competitions Hosted By England
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Golf Tournaments In England
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game. Courses typically have either 18 or 9 ''holes'', regions of terrain that each contain a ''cup'', the hole that receives the ball. Each hole on a course contains a teeing ground to start from, and a putting green containing the cup. There are several standard forms of terrain between the tee and the green, such as the fairway, rough (tall grass), and various ''hazards'' such as water, rocks, or sand-filled ''bunkers''. Each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout. Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual or team, k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louise Suggs
Mae Louise Suggs (September 7, 1923 – August 7, 2015) was an American professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf. Amateur career Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager. She won the Georgia State Amateur in 1940 at age 16 and again in 1942, was the Southern Amateur Champion in 1941 and 1947, and won the North and South Women's Amateur three times (1942, 1946, 1948). She won the 1946 and 1947 Women's Western Amateur and the 1946 and 1947 Women's Western Open, which was designated as a major championship when the LPGA was founded. She also won the 1946 Titleholders Championship which was also subsequently designated as a women's major. She won the 1947 U.S. Women's Amateur and the next year won the British Ladies Amateur. She finished her amateur career representing the United States on the 1948 Curtis Cup Team. Professional career After her successful amateur career, she turned professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polly Riley
Polly Ann Riley (August 27, 1926 – March 13, 2002) was an American amateur golfer. Riley won over 100 tournaments in her career. Although she remained an amateur throughout her career, she won the first LPGA Tour event, the 1950 Tampa Open. Riley was runner-up in the 1953 U.S. Women's Amateur to Mary Lena Faulk. She played on the U.S. Curtis Cup teams six times (1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958) and was the captain in 1962. She mistook golfer Ann Gregory for a maid at the Women's Amateur in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1963. Tournament wins ''this list is incomplete'' *1947 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur *1948 Women's Southern Amateur, Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Women's Texas Open *1950 Women's Southern Amateur, Women's Western Amateur, Tampa Open (LPGA Tour) *1951 Women's Southern Amateur *1952 Women's Western Amateur *1953 Women's Southern Amateur *1954 Women's Southern Amateur *1955 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Women's Texas Open *1961 Women's So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Estelle Page
Estelle Page, née Lawson (March 22, 1907 - May 7, 1983) was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Bob Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She graduated from Chapel Hill High School (Chapel Hill, North Carolina) where she played tennis and basketball. In 1935, Lawson won her first of seven North and South Women's Amateurs at the Pinehurst Resort, a record that still stands. In 1936 she married Julius A. Page Jr. and made their home in Chapel Hill. At that year's U.S. Women's Amateur, Page won the medal for the lowest round during the qualifying matches and won the medal again in 1937 and went on to defeat Patty Berg in the finals to win the most important amateur championship in the U.S. In 1938, at Westmoreland Country Club, the two met again in the finals, this time the victory went to Berg. Page was part of the U.S. team that won the 1938 Curtis Cup and ten years later she wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Lenczyk
Grace Lenczyk Cronin (September 12, 1927 – December 13, 2013) was an American amateur golfer who won the 1947 All American Open (LPGA Tour), All American Open. During her career, Lenczyk was the winner of the Canadian Women's Amateur from 1947 to 1948 and the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1948. In team events, she was a member of the winning American team at the 1948 and 1950 Curtis Cup. Lenczyk was inducted into the Connecticut Golf Hall of Fame in 1969. Early life and education Lenczyk was born on September 12, 1927, in Newington, Connecticut. At the age of eleven, she started playing golf with her siblings at the Indian Hill Country Club in Newington, Connecticut. For her post-secondary education, Lenczyk went to Arnold College to study physical education. Career As an amateur golfer, Lenczyk competed at the U.S. Women's Amateur consecutively between 1946 and 1949 and was the 1948 championship winner. Outside of the United States, Lenczyk won the 1947 and 1948 Canadian Women's Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Kirby
Mary Dorothy Kirby (January 15, 1920 – December 12, 2000) was an American professional golfer and sportscaster. Born in West Point, Georgia, her family moved to Atlanta when she was ten. At the age of 13, Kirby's victory at the 1933 Georgia Women's Amateur Championship made her the youngest female golfer to ever win a state championship. It marked the first of her six Georgia championships, her last coming 20 years later in 1953. As well, she defeated amateurs and professionals in winning back-to-back Titleholders Championship in 1941-42. In 1943 she won the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst. She attended Washington Seminary in Atlanta, Georgia, from 1934-1938. Her senior caption reads: "Dot Kirby was voted 'Most Athletic Senior.' She has played class basketball and volleyball since 1935, and in '36-'37 she was captain of both teams. A member of the "A" thleticClub since her sophomore year, she was elected vice-president in her senior year. In 1935 she held the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dorothy Kielty
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