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 "Great Britain and Ireland". The same two teams originally contested the Ryder Cup, but unlike that competition, the Curtis Cup has not widened the Great Britain and Ireland team to include all Europeans. Many women who have gone on to become stars of women's professional golf have played in the Curtis Cup.
Catriona Isobel Matthew is a Scottish professional golfer who plays mainly on the US-based LPGA Tour and is also a member of the Ladies European Tour.
The Women's Amateur Championship, previously known as the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship, was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union. It is organised by The R&A, which merged with the Ladies' Golf Union in 2017. Until the dawn of the professional era in 1976, it was the most important golf tournament for women in Great Britain, and attracted players from continental Europe, North America, and the rest of the world. Along with the U.S. Women's Amateur, it is considered the highest honour in women's amateur golf.
Margaret Curtis was an American golf and tennis champion and lifelong social worker.
Alexa Stirling Fraser was an American-Canadian amateur golfer. She won the U.S. Women's Amateur golf championship in 1916, 1919, and 1920. She also won the Canadian Women's Amateur title in 1920 and 1934.
Mary Elizabeth Linzee "May" Hezlet was a British amateur golfer and sports writer. She has been called "probably Ireland's greatest woman golfer".
Florence Eugenia Hezlet was an Irish amateur golfer who played in the early 20th century.
Elsie Grant Suttie was a Scottish amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. In 1910, Suttie won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship at Westward Ho! – played on the Royal North Devon Golf Club course – defeating 18-year-old Lily Moore from Olton Golf Club in the West Midlands 6 and 4 in the final.
Sybil Whigham, also seen as Sibyl Whigham and later as Sybil Nicholson, was a Scottish golfer.
Florence Lyle Harvey was a Canadian golfer, and an ambulance driver in Serbia during World War I. She was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1972.
Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship was founded in 1969 by the Ladies' Golf Union of Great Britain.
Linn Maria Grant is a Swedish professional golfer who plays on the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour. As an amateur, she won the 2017 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship and was in contention at the 2018 and 2020 U.S. Women's Open.
Jean Macalister Donald was a Scottish golfer. She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship three times and played in the Curtis Cup in 1948, 1950 and 1952. She turned professional at the start of 1954 following a change in the rules regarding amateur status.
Mary Allan Graham was an amateur golfer. She won the Womens Amateur Championship at Aberdovey in 1901 and the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship in 1904. Born in England to Scottish parents, she represented Scotland in international competitions.
Alexandra Malcolm Glover was an amateur golfer. She won the inaugural Scottish Women's Amateur Championship, played on the Old Course at St Andrews in June 1903.
Emily Maud Titterton was an amateur golfer. She won the Womens Amateur Championship on the Old Course at St Andrews in 1908.
Alice Marion Kennion was an English amateur golfer. She was a surprise winner of the 1906 Womens Amateur Championship at Burnham & Berrow Golf Club. She was the first married woman to win the championship.
Bertha Mildred Thompson was an English amateur golfer. She won the 1905 Womens Amateur Championship at Royal Cromer and reached the final the following year. She reached the quarter-finals in 1900, 1909 and 1911. She was a regular player for England in international matches between 1899 and 1911, only missing the 1910 Women's Home Internationals, when she withdrew. The official Home Internationals started in 1905 and although she played in the event six times, she was only in the winning team once, in her final appearance in 1911.
Doris Elaine Chambers was an English amateur golfer. She won the Womens Amateur Championship in 1923, having been a semi-finalist in 1909. She also reached the semi-finals of the English Women's Amateur Championship in 1926. She represented England in the Women's Home Internationals nine times between 1906 and 1925. She was the British Curtis Cup captain in 1934, 1936 and 1948.
Elaine Farquharson-Black is a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship in 1987, the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship in 1990 and reached the final of the 1989 Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship. She played in the Curtis Cup in 1990 and 1992 and was the non-playing captain in 2016 and 2018.
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