Barbara Joy McIntire (born January 12, 1935)
is an American amateur
golf
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er.
McIntire was born in
Toledo, Ohio
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.
[ Living in ]Florida
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, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S. Women's Amateur by eliminating six-time Champion Glenna Collett Vare
Glenna Collett Vare (June 20, 1903 – February 3, 1989) was an American Hall of Fame golfing champion whom the Hall calls the greatest female golfer of her day, and who dominated American women's golf in the 1920s.
Biography
Born in New Haven, ...
in the opening round. She finished runner-up at the 1951 and 1952 U.S. Girls' Junior The United States Girls' Junior Championship is one of the thirteen United States, U.S. national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association. It is open to amateur girls who are under 19 on the last day of the competition and ...
.[
A student at Rollins College in ]Winter Park, Florida
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Winter Park was f ...
in 1956, McIntire came close to becoming the first amateur to win the U.S. Women's Open
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when she was tied with professional Kathy Cornelius
Kathy Cornelius (née McKinnon, born October 27, 1932) is an American professional golfer.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Cornelius attended Florida Southern College, where she played on the men's golf team, as the school did not have a women's ...
at the end of regulation play but lost in the ensuing playoff. In 1957, she won the first of her six North and South Women's Amateur The North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament held since 1903 at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. An invitational tournament, participants are chosen based upon their performance in national am ...
s then in 1959 at the U.S. Women's Amateur she defeated the reigning champion Anne Quast in the quarter-finals and went on to win the tournament.[ The following year, she won the 1960 ]British Ladies Amateur
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, becoming one of eight women to simultaneously hold the American and British titles and earning her the cover of ''Sports Illustrated
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'' magazine. She also won the Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
in 1958 and 1963.
A member of the U.S. Curtis Cup
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team in 1958, 1960, 1962, 1964, 1966 and 1972,[ McIntire won her second U.S. Women's Amateur in 1964][ and went on to dedicate herself to the game of golf, serving on the ]United States Golf Association
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Women's Committee from 1985-1996 and its chairperson for 1995 and 1996.
McIntire was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 1964, the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame in 1995 and the Colorado Sports Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2000, she was voted the Bob Jones Award, the highest honor given by the United States Golf Association in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf.
U. S. national Team appearances
Amateur
*Curtis Cup
The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match. It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and The R&A and is contested by teams representing the United States and ...
: 1958 (tie), 1960 (winners), 1962 (winners), 1964 (winners), 1966 (winners), 1972 (winners), 1976 (non-playing captain, winners), 1998 (non-playing captain, winners)
*Espirito Santo Trophy
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The inaugural event was held in 1964. It was instituted by the Fre ...
: 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
References
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American female golfers
Amateur golfers
Rollins Tars women's golfers
Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships
Golfers from Ohio
Golfers from Florida
Sportspeople from Toledo, Ohio
1935 births
Living people