Marjorie "Marge" Burns (July 13, 1925 – June 3, 2009) was an American and former collegiate and professional
golf
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 wi ...
er. A graduate of
Woman's College UNC in 1948,
UNCG Oral History Margorie Burns
/ref> Burns went on to win the North Carolina Amateur Championship an unprecedented ten times and won the Teague Award
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as the outstanding amateur athlete in the Carolinas five times.
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American female golfers
Golfers from North Carolina
Sportspeople from Greensboro, North Carolina
1925 births
2009 deaths
University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni
20th-century American women
21st-century American women
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