Elaine Virginia Rosenthal Reinhart (July 3, 1896 — May 12, 1993) won the
Women's Western Amateur golf championship in 1915, 1918, and 1925.
[ Her home course was the Ravisloe Country Club in Homewood, Illinois.][
]
Biography
She was born as Elaine Virginia Rosenthal on July 3, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois to Benjamin Jefferson Rosenthal and Hannah W. Stumer. She won the Women's Western Amateur championship in 1915 and 1918. She married Sylvain Louis Reinhardt of Dallas, Texas on December 10, 1921, in Chicago, Illinois. Her husband was on the Yale Bulldogs football team at Yale University. She won the Women's Western Amateur championship a third time in 1925 at the Glen View Country Club
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.[ Her combined three-day score was a 256, beating her closest rival, ]Virginia Wilson
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, who scored a 264. She also defeated the previous champion, Lucia Mida
Lucia Gueth Mida (August 4, 1887 – April 1952), also known as Mrs. Lee Mida and Louise Mida, was a golfer from Chicago, Illinois. She won the 1930 Women's Western Open, which was later designated by the LPGA as the first women's major. Mida was ...
, who scored a 274.
Rosenthal also won the 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 ...
in 1917 and finished runner-up to Katherine Harley
Katherine Harley, also known as Katharine Harley and Kate C. Harley, (November 13, 1881 – May 2, 1961) was an American amateur golfer.
Harley won the U.S. Women's Amateur of the United States Golf Association
The United States Golf Associ ...
in the 1914 U.S. Women's Amateur
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.
Legacy
She was inducted into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.
Tournament wins
*1915 Women's Western Amateur
*1917 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 ...
*1918 Women's Western Amateur
*1925 Women's Western Amateur
References
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American female golfers
Jewish American golfers
Golfers from Chicago
People from Homewood, Illinois
Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
1896 births
1993 deaths