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Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes
The Worplesdon Open Scratch Mixed Foursomes is an open mixed foursomes golf tournament contested annually at the Worplesdon Golf Club in Surrey since 1921. From its inception until the 1960s the event attracted many of the leading amateur golfers. The event was open to professionals and attracted some British women golfers who had lost their amateur status by taking up paid positions with golf equipment makers. Joyce Wethered, a member at Worplesdon, won the event eight times with seven different partners. She also lost two finals, in 1921 when partnered by her brother Roger Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ( ... and in 1948 when partnered by her husband John Heathcoat-Amory. The event is still played. It currently consists of a 36-hole stableford stage on a Saturda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worplesdon Golf Club
Worplesdon is a village NNW of Guildford in Surrey, England and a large dispersed civil parish that includes the settlements of: Worplesdon itself (including its central church area, Perry Hill), Fairlands, Jacobs Well, Rydeshill and Wood Street Village, all various-sized smaller settlements, well-connected by footpaths and local roads. Its area includes Whitmoor Common, which can be a collective term for all of its commons. History Early history South of Broad Street, east of Wood Street Village on a farm in Broad Street Common are ruins of a Roman Villa – for further details see the Guildford article, as it is directly by the major town's western edge however in this parish. Worplesdon has a Grade I C of E church, St Mary's with a 13th-century chancel and later additions. Worplesdon's single manor appears in Domesday Book of 1086 as ''Werpesdune'' held by Turald (Thorold) from Roger de Montgomery. Its domesday assets were: 6½ hides; a church, 9 ploughs, a mill worth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Darwin
Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin CBE JP (7 September 1876 − 18 October 1961) a grandson of the British naturalist Charles Darwin, was a golf writer and high-standard amateur golfer. He was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. Biography Born in Downe, Kent, Darwin was the son of Francis Darwin and Amy Ruck, his mother dying from a fever on 11 September, four days after his birth. He was the first grandson of Charles and Emma Darwin (see Darwin–Wedgwood family), and was brought up by them at their home, Down House. His younger half-sister from his father's second marriage to Ellen Wordswotth Crofts was the poet Frances Cornford. Darwin was educated at Eton College, and graduated in law from Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a Cambridge Blue in golf 1895-1897, and team captain in his final year. Darwin married the engraver Elinor Monsell in 1906. They had one son, Sir Robert Vere Darwin, and two daughters; the potter Ursula Mommens, and Nicola Mary Elizabeth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Oppenheimer
Raymond Harry Oppenheimer CBE (13 November 1905 – 12 August 1984) was an English businessman, golfer and Bull Terrier enthusiast. His family was wealthy from its interests in South African diamond mining. During World War II he became a wing commander in the Royal Air Force. In 1951 he was captain of the British team in the Walker Cup. Life Raymond Harry Oppenheimer was born in England on 13 November 1905, son of Louis Oppenheimer and Charlotte Emily Oppenheimer. Oppenheimer's family operated the De Beers diamond mines in South Africa. His uncle was Sir Ernest Oppenheimer, co-founder of the Anglo American Corporation. He attended Harrow, an independent boys' school, then went on to the University of Oxford. He graduated in 1928 and joined the London office of his family's business. He became an executive just before World War II (1939–1945). During the war Oppenheimer served in the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer, rising to the rank of wing commander. In 1957 he was still ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Doris Park
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Michael Scott (golfer)
The Hon. Michael Scott OBE (31 August 1878 – 9 January 1959) was an English amateur golfer, most famous for being the oldest winner of The Amateur Championship. Michael Scott was the son of John Scott, 3rd Earl of Eldon, and the youngest of seven children. He attended Winchester College. He emigrated to Australia in about 1900 but returned to the United Kingdom between July 1906 and early 1907, missing the main Australian golf events of 1906. Scott won a number of important amateur tournaments in Australia, including four Australian Amateur titles (1905, 1907, 1909, and 1910), six Victorian Amateur Championship titles (all between 1904 and 1910), and several others. He won the inaugural Australian Open in 1904, and again in 1907. He returned to England in 1911. Scott fought in World War I, and was decorated with the Order of Aviz of Portugal and the Order of the Black Star of France. In 1918, he was invested as an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. While h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Esmond
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Nancye Gold
Nancy is a common English language given name for women. The name Nancy was originally a diminutive form of Anne or Ann. It began to be used as a proper name from the 18th century onwards. Similar names include Nan, Nance, Nanette, and Nannie. Nancy may refer to: People * Nancy Ajram (born 1983), Lebanese singer * Nancy Alexiadi, Greek singer * Nancy Allen (actress) (born 1950), American actress * Nancy Allen (harpist) (born 1954), American harpist * Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor (1879–1954), first woman to sit in British Parliament * Nancy Balfour (1911–1997), English arts administrator and journalist * Nancy Lee Bass (1917–2013), American philanthropist * Nancy Benoit (1964–2007), American professional wrestling manager * Nancy Binay (born 1973), Filipina politician * Nancy Boyd-Franklin (born 1950), American psychologist and writer * Nancy Carell (born 1966), American comedian and actress * Nancy Carrillo (born 1986), Cuban volleyball player * Nancy Carroll ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Stanton Fleming Morrison
John Stanton Fleming Morrison DFC (17 April 1892 – 28 January 1961) was a British golf course architect born in Newcastle-on-Tyne, UK. He worked predominantly with Charles Alison, Harry Colt, and Alister MacKenzie, in 1928 forming Colt, Alison & Morrison Ltd. John Morrison was educated at Charterhouse School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where his studies in history and law extended from 1912 to 1919, interrupted by his war service. He was a bomber pilot during World War I and a Group Captain in the RAF during World War II. He was among the first pilots to land an airplane on an aircraft carrier. He was awarded the DFC and bar. In his younger years he was a talented all-round sportsman, representing England at football as an amateur and playing first-class cricket First-class cricket, along with List A cricket and Twenty20 cricket, is one of the highest-standard forms of cricket. A first-class match is one of three or more days' scheduled duration between two sid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hezlet
Charles Owen Hezlet, DSO (16 May 1891 – 22 November 1965) was an Irish amateur golfer and part-time soldier. He was runner-up in the 1914 Amateur Championship and was in the British Walker Cup team in 1924, 1926 and 1928. Military career Hezlet was commissioned into the part-time Antrim Royal Garrison Artillery (Special Reserve) in 1911, served during World War I and won a DSO while commanding a siege battery in 1918. He ended the war with the rank of Major. He was re-commissioned on the outbreak of World War II and on 1 December 1940 he took command of the newly-formed 66th Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery, at Belfast. Shortly afterwards he was promoted to Lieutenant-Colonel and commanded the regiment during the Belfast Blitz, He remained in command until May 1942, after the regiment had crossed to Kent to train for active service overseas. Golf career In 1914 he was runner-up in the Amateur Championship, losing 3&2 to James Jenkins. He was also runner-up in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Molly Gourlay
Mary Perceval Gourlay ODE (14 May 1898 – 1 October 1990), better known as Molly Gourlay, was a British golfer who won several international championships. She was the first female golf course architect in Britain, and after World War II was active in national ladies' golf associations. Early years (1898–1939) Mary (Molly) Perceval Gourlay was born on the 14 May 1898 in Winslade, Hampshire. She was the eldest daughter of Henry Gourlay and Mary Henrietta Gourlay. Her mother, born Mary Henrietta Perceval, came from New Zealand. She already had two children by her first husband, Rev. Gilbert Vyvyan Heathcote. Her father, Henry Gourlay, was a ship builder from Dundee. Before World War I, the family lived at Kempshott House in the civil parish of Dummer, Hampshire. Her father died in 1915 at their family estate in Scotland. The War Office requisitioned Kempshott house and park later in the war to house German prisoners of war. Molly Gourlay was a member of the Sunningdale Ladies G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Simone De La Chaume
Simone Thion de la Chaume (24 November 1908 – 4 September 2001) was a French amateur golfer. In 1924, she became the first foreign player to win the Girls Amateur Championship and in 1927 the first to win the British Ladies Amateur, then the most prestigious tournament in British and European ladies' golf and an event her daughter, Catherine Lacoste, would also win 42 years later. At the 1927 U.S. Women's Amateur, she lost in the third round to former three-time champion, Alexa Stirling. While attending a Davis Cup match, Simone de la Chaume met the French tennis star René Lacoste. They married in 1929 and had three sons and a daughter. The Lacostes would go on to form the Lacoste company and build a sportswear empire. They also founded the Golf de Chantaco club in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département of France near Biarritz. Simone Lacoste died in Saint-Jean-de-Luz in 2001. Principal victories * 1924: Girls Amateur Championship * 1927: British Ladie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Gow
Joan may refer to: People and fictional characters *Joan (given name), including a list of women, men and fictional characters *:Joan of Arc, a French military heroine *Joan (surname) Weather events *Tropical Storm Joan (other), multiple tropical cyclones are named Joan Music * ''Joan'' (album), a 1967 album by Joan Baez *"Joan", a song by The Art Bears from their 1978 album '' Hopes and Fears'' *"Joan", a song by Lene Lovich from her 1980 album ''Flex'' *"Joan", a song by Erasure from their 1991 album ''Chorus'' *"Joan", a song by The Innocence Mission from their 1991 album '' Umbrella'' *"Joan", a song by God Is My Co-Pilot from their 1992 album ''I Am Not This Body'' Other uses *Jōan (era), a Japanese era name * ''Joan'' (play), 2015 one-woman play written by Lucy J. Skillbeck *Joan Township, Ontario, a geographic township See also *''Jo-an'' tea house, National Treasure in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan * *Jane (other) * Jean (other) *Jeanne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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