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1965 European Ladies' Team Championship
The 1965 European Ladies' Team Championship took place 5–10 July at Royal The Hague Golf & Country Club in Wassenaar, 10 kilometres north of the city center of The Hague, Netherlands. It was the fourth women's golf amateur European Ladies' Team Championship. Venue The course was designed in 1938, by Harry Colt and C.H. Alison and is situated in an undulating dune landscape. The championship course was set up with par 73. It was raining and blowing hard winds during the tournament. Format All participating teams played two qualification rounds of stroke play, counting the three best scores out of up to four players for each team. The four best teams formed flight A. The next four teams formed flight B and the last three teams formed flight C. The winner in each flight was determined by a round-robin system. All teams in the flight met each other and the team with most points for team matches in flight A won the tournament, using the scale, win=2 points, halved=1 po ...
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The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a list of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of the Netherlands is Amsterdam, The Hague has been described as the country's de facto capital. The Hague is also the capital of the provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, and the city hosts both the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The Hague is the core municipality of the COROP, Greater The Hague urban area, which comprises the city itself and its suburban municipalities, containing over 800,000 people, making it the third-largest urban area in the Netherlands, again after the urban are ...
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England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic period, but takes its name from the Angles, a Germanic tribe deriving its name from the Anglia peninsula, who settled during the 5th and 6th centuries. England became a unified state in the 10th century and has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century. The English language, the Anglican Church, and Eng ...
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Nancy Wright
Helen Nancy McLean Wright ( Cook, 28 March 1917 – 3 June 1994) was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times between 1953 and 1967. Golf career Wright won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times, in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1965 and 1967, and was runner-up four times, in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1968. Her first and final appearances in the final were both at Royal Porthcawl, losing to Dr. Phyllis Garfield Evans in 1950 and to Sylvia Hales in 1968. In October 1969, she reached the semi-finals of the French championship. In 1938, she made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals. She played again in the first post-war event in 1947 and played most years until 1968, making her final appearance in 1971. She also played for Wales in the 1964 Espirito Santo Trophy, when the four home nations competed separately, and in the European Ladies' Team Championship in 1965 and 1971. Personal life She married Marcus Thurlow Wright (18 ...
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Pat Roberts (golfer)
Margaret Patricia Roberts (20 April 1921 – 21 August 2013) was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship four times between 1956 and 1969. Golf career Roberts won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship four times, in 1956, 1959, 1963 and 1969, and was runner-up six times, in 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1962 and 1966. In 1950, Roberts made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals. She made her final appearance in 1970, playing every year except 1952 and 1954. She also played for Wales in the 1964 Espirito Santo Trophy, when the four home nations competed separately, and in the European Ladies' Team Championship in 1965, 1967 and 1969. Roberts held a number of positions in the Welsh Ladies' Golf Union, including chairman, secretary and president. She was also a vice captain of Curtis Cup and Vagliano Trophy teams. Honours Roberts was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1994 New Year Honours as president of t ...
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Cécilia Perslow
"Cecilia" is a song by American musical duo Simon & Garfunkel. It was released in April 1970 as the third single from the group's fifth studio album, '' Bridge over Troubled Water'' (1970). Written by Paul Simon, the song's origins lie in a late-night party, in which the duo and friends began banging on a piano bench. They recorded the sound with a tape recorder, employing reverb and matching the rhythm created by the machine. Simon later wrote the song's guitar line and lyrics on the subject of an untrustworthy lover. The song was a hit single in the United States, peaking at number four on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. On the ''Cash Box'' Top 100, it reached number one. "Cecilia" also did well in Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, and Spain, where it reached number two, and also in Switzerland and Belgium, where it peaked at number three, although it failed to chart in the United Kingdom, where it was released as a single about six months after the album. It has been the subject ...
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Liv Wollin
Liv Wollin (née Forsell) (born 17 April 1945) is a Swedish professional golfer, who is regarded as having been one of the best Swedish female amateur players ever. Early life Wollin grew up in Lidingö outside Stockholm, Sweden, as the only girl among five siblings. Her parents were Jacob Forsell and Mette, nee Grut, and they were not golfers. She started out golf in 1958 as a caddie at Lidingö Golf Club close to their house. With few girls playing the game in those days, she usually played with boys. Her older brother Joachim (called "Kim") and Swedish elite amateur Gustav Adolf Bielke were both role models for her while learning the game at young age. She always preferred to develop her golfing abilities by playing on the course instead of practicing a lot on the driving range. Her swing technique was characterized by a short and quick backswing, just like the one of G. A. Bielke. Other sports she practiced, was curling, bowling, table tennis and squash. By saving the mon ...
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Janette Wright
Janette Sneddon Wright ( Robertson, born 7 January 1935) is a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1973. She was in four Curtis Cup teams, in 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1960. Golf career Wright won the Girls Amateur Championship in 1950 beating Ann Phillips 5&4 in the final. She was a finalist again in 1951, losing to Jane Redgate at the 19th hole. She played in the England–Scotland girls match each year from 1950 to 1953. In 1952 she made her senior debut in the Women's Home Internationals. She won her three matches with Scotland retaining the title. Wright was part of the British juniors team that played in the Commonwealth tournament at Formby in early July 1953. The other teams were Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Wright was one of the last two women selected for the 1954 Curtis Cup team at Merion Golf Club. The Americans won by 6 matches to 3. Wright lost her foursomes match but beat Joyce Ziske in the singles. ...
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Belle Robertson
Isabella Robertson (née McCorkindale) (born 11 April 1936) is a Scottish golfer who won the British Ladies Amateur in 1981. Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Curtis Cup as a player on seven occasions and twice as non-playing captain. She was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2002. Career Robertson learned to play golf at Dunaverty Golf Club in Argyll, Scotland. She won the British Ladies Amateur title in 1981 at Conwy Golf Club in Caernarvonshire, Wales, having been runner-up three times: 1959 at Royal Ascot Golf Club, 1965 at St Andrews, and at Gullane Golf Club in 1970. She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship on seven occasions. Robertson represented Great Britain and Ireland as a player on seven occasions in the Curtis Cup (1960, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972, 1982, 1986). She was a non-playing captain in 1974 and 1976. On her ninth appearance in the competition, she experienced victory for the first time, beating the U.S. team ...
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Brigitte Varangot
Brigitte Varangot (1 May 1940 – 12 October 2007) was a French amateur golfer. Early life Varangot was born in Biarritz in the French Basque Country and was a self-taught golfer, who did not take many lessons and did not practice a lot. Lally Segard (also known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur) (1921–2018) became her mentor. Varangot and Segard came to win several foursomes tournaments in the 1960s. Varangot came to represent Golf de Saint Germain, situated 20 kilometers west of Paris, France. Varangot, age 17, won the 1957 Girls Amateur Championship at North Berwick Golf Club, Scotland, the most prestigious youth golf tournament in Europe. She came close to defending her title, when she reached the final the following year. Dominating junior golf in France, she won both the French Junior Championship and the French Junior Open Championship for the Trophée Esmond three years in a row 1959–1961. Amateur career Varangot's greatest individual victories came at the Britis ...
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Lally Segard
Dorothée Sonia "Lally" Segard (née Vagliano) (4 April 1921 – 3 March 2018), also known as Vicomtesse de Saint Sauveur, was a French amateur golfer. Early life Segard was born in Paris and the oldest of three siblings of a Greek (born in Marseilles, France) father, André Marino Vagliano (1896–1971) and an American mother, Barbara Frances Gallatin Allen (1897–1951), married 1920 in New York. Her brother Alexander (1927–2003) emigrated to the United States in 1940 and later reached a position as executive vice president at JP Morgan & Co. Her father won the French Open Amateur Championship in 1925 and the French Close Amateur in 1930 and 1931. He was also captain of the French National team and on the board of the French Golf Federation where he became the initiator of the PGA of France. In 1959, he donated the trophy for the biennial match, named the Vagliano Trophy, between female amateur teams; Great Britain and Ireland playing against the Continent of Europe. Seg ...
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Odile Garaialde
Odile is a feminine given name of French origin, and may refer to: Characters * Odile, the evil black swan of ''Swan Lake'' * Odile de Caray, in the 1966 film ''Eye of the Devil'' * Odile, a principal character in the 1964 Jean-Luc Godard film '' Bande à part'' People *Odile of Cologne (c. 4th century), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church *Odile of Alsace (c. 662–c. 720), a saint of the Roman Catholic Church *Odile Bain (1939-2012), French parasitologist *Odile Baron Supervielle (1915-2016), Uruguayan-born Argentine writer and journalist *Odile Crick (1920–2007), British artist best known for her drawing of the DNA double helix *Odile Defraye (1888–1965), Belgian road-racing bicyclist * Odile Fanton d’Andon, French environmental researcher, CEO of the company ACRI-ST *Odile Gilbert (contemporary), French hairstylist *Odile Harington (born 1961), South African intelligence agent *Odile Jacob (contemporary), French scientist who studies the workings of the brain *Odile Le ...
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Claudine Cros
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