Mary Gwynne Jestyn Jeffreys, Mrs Emery (8 January 1908 – 19 June 1973) was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the

Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship The Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship is the women's national amateur match play golf championship of Wales. It was first played in 1905 and is currently organised by Wales Golf. The Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship is contested in two phases ...

four times in the 1930s. She was in the British team for the 1934

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Golf career

Jeffrey won the

four times, in 1930, 1931, 1933 and 1937, and was also runner-up three times, in 1932, 1934 and 1938. in 1930 she beat the defending champion, Alison Rieben, by two holes in the 36-hole final. The following year she beat Barbara Pyman, 4&3 in the final. She lost the 1932 final but regained the title in 1933 when she beat Eileen Bridge, 2&1. Her fourth win came in 1937, beating Philomena Whitaker in the final, 10&9, having been 6 up after the morning round. Jeffreys represented Wales in the

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each year from 1928 to 1938 and again in 1947. In 1934, she became the first Welsh woman to play in a British team when she competed in the

match against France at

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. She lost her foursomes match and was left out of the singles. The match was tied.

Personal life

Jeffreys was born in January 1908 in

Neath Neath (; cy, Castell-nedd) is a market town and Community (Wales), community situated in the Neath Port Talbot, Neath Port Talbot County Borough, Wales. The town had a population of 50,658 in 2011. The community of the parish of Neath had a po ...

. the daughter of Albert Jestyn Jeffreys, a Neath solicitor. In October 1935 she married Graham Stuart Emery, a journalist. She died in Kent in June 1973. Graham Emery died the following month.

Team appearances

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1934 (tied) *

(representing Wales): 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935, 1936, 1937, 1938, 1947

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Jeffreys, Mary Jestyn Welsh female golfers Amateur golfers Sportspeople from Neath 1908 births 1973 deaths