British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship

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The British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship was founded in 1893 by the Ladies' Golf Union of Great Britain. Until the dawn of the professional era in 1976, it was the most important golf tournament for women in Great Britain and would eventually begin to draw golfers from continental Europe. Along with the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship, it is considered the highest honor in women's amateur golf.

A match play tournament with 18 holes per match, the first tournament was played at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club in Lytham St Annes in Lancashire, England and was won by Lady Margaret Scott (who also won the following two years). In 1927, Simone de la Chaume of France, who had won the 1924 British Girls Amateur Golf Championship, became the first foreign golfer to win the Ladies championship. The first competitor from the United States to win the title was Babe Zaharias in 1947.

The "Pam Barton Memorial Salver" is awarded to the winner to be held for one year, as the actual Championship Cup is held by the Ladies' Golf Union. The runner-up receives the The Diana Fishwick Cup.

[edit] Winners

Year	Venue	Winner	Country	Score	Runner-up
2009	Royal St David's Golf Club
2008	North Berwick West Links
2007	Alwoodley Golf Club	Carlota Ciganda	Spain	4 & 3	Anna Nordqvist
2006	Royal County Down Golf Club	Belen Mozo	Spain	3 & 1	Anna Nordqvist
2005	Littlestone Golf Club	Louise Stahle	Sweden	3 & 2	Claire Coughlan
2004	Gullane Golf Club	Louise Stahle	Sweden	4 & 2	Anna Highgate
2003	Lindrick Golf Club	Elisa Serramia	Spain	2 up	Pia Odefey
2002	Ashburnham Golf Club	Rebecca Hudson	England	5 & 4	Lindsey Wright
2001	Ladybank Golf Club	Marta Prieto	Spain	4 & 3	Emma Duggleby
2000	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	Rebecca Hudson	England	5 & 4	Emma Duggleby
1999	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	Marine Monnet	France	1 up	Rebecca Hudson
1998	Little Aston Golf Club	Kim Rostron	England	3 & 2	Gwladys Nocera
1997	Cruden Bay Golf Club	Alison Rose	Scotland	4 & 3	Mhairi McKay
1996	Royal Liverpool Golf Club	Kelli Kuehne	United States	5 & 3	Becky Morgan
1995	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Julie Wade Hall	England	3 & 2	Kristel Mourgue D'Algue
1994	Newport Golf Club	Emma Duggleby	England	3 & 1	Cecilia Mourgue D'Algue
1993	Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club	Catriona Lambert	Scotland	3 & 2	Kirsty Speak
1992	Saunton Golf Club	Pernille Pedersen	Denmark	1 up	Joanne Morley
1991	Pannal Golf Club	Valerie Michaud	France	3 & 2	Wendy Doolan
1990	Dunbar Golf Club	Julie Wade Hall	England	3 & 2	Helen Wadsworth
1989	Royal Liverpool Golf Club	Helen Dobson	England	6 & 5	Elaine Farquharson
1988	Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club	Joanne Furby	England	4 & 3	Jule Wade Hall
1987	Royal St David's Golf Club	Janet Collingham	England	19 holes	Susan Shapcott
1986	West Sussex Golf Club	Marnie McGuire	New Zealand	2 & 1	Louise Briers
1985	Ganton Golf Club	Lillian Behan	Ireland	1 up	Claire Waite
1984	Royal Troon Golf Club	Jody Rosenthal	United States	4 & 3	Julie Brown
1983	Silloth on Solway Golf Club	Jill Thornhill	England	4 & 2	Regina Lautens
1982	Walton Heath Golf Club	Kitrina Douglas	England	4 & 2	Gillian Stewart
1981	Conwy Golf Club	Belle Robertson	Scotland	20 holes	Wilma Aitken
1980	Woodhall Spa	Anne Quast	United States	3 & 1	Liv Wollin
1979	Nairn Golf Club	Maureen Madill	Northern Ireland	2 & 1	Jane Lock
1978	Notts Golf Club	Edwina Kennedy	Australia	1 up	Julia Greenhalgh
1977	Hillside Golf Club	Angela Uzielli	England	6 & 5	Vanessa Marvin
1976	Silloth on Solway Golf Club	Cathy Panton	Scotland	1 up	Alison Sheard
1975	St Andrews Links	Nancy Roth Syms	United States	3 & 2	Suzanne Cadden
1974	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	Carol Semple	United States	2 & 1	Angela Bonallack
1973	Carnoustie Golf Links	Ann Irvin	England	3 & 2	Mickey Walker
1972	Hunstanton Golf Club	Mickey Walker	England	2 up	Claudine Clos-Rubin
1971	Alwoodley Golf Club	Mickey Walker	England	3 & 1	Beverly Huke
1970	Gullane Golf Club	Dinah Oxley	England	1 up	Belle Robertson
1969	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Catherine Lacoste	France	1 up	Ann Irvin
1968	Walton Heath Golf Club	Brigitte Varangot	France	20 holes	Claudine Clos-Rubin
1967	Royal St David's Golf Club	Elizabeth Chadwick	Wales	1 up	Mary Everard
1966	Ganton Golf Club	Elizabeth Chadwick	Wales	3 & 2	Vivien Saunders
1965	St Andrews Links	Brigitte Varangot	France	4 & 3	Belle Robertson
1964	Royal St George's Golf Club	Carol Sorenson	United States	37 holes	Bridget Jackson
1963	Royal County Down Golf Club	Brigitte Varangot	France	3 & 1	Philomena Garvey
1962	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	Marley Spearman	England	1 up	Angela Bonallack
1961	Carnoustie Golf Links	Marley Spearman	England	7 & 6	Diane J. Robb
1960	Royal St David's Golf Club	Barbara McIntire	United States	4 & 2	Philomena Garvey
1959	Royal Ascot Golf Club	Elizabeth Price	England	37 holes	Belle McCorkindale
1958	Hunstanton Golf Club	Jessie Valentine	Scotland	1 up	Elizabeth Price
1957	Gleneagles	Philomena Garvey	Ireland	4 & 3	Jessie Valentine
1956	Sunningdale Golf Club	Wiffi Smith	United States	8 & 7	Mary Patton Janssen
1955	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Jessie Valentine	Scotland	7 & 6	Barbara Romack
1954	Ganton Golf Club	Frances Stephens	England	4 & 3	Elizabeth Price
1953	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	Marlene Stewart	Canada	7 & 6	Philomena Garvey
1952	Royal Troon Golf Club	Moira Paterson	Scotland	39 holes	Frances Stephens
1951	Broadstone Golf Club	Catherine MacCann	Ireland	4 & 3	Frances Stephens
1950	Royal County Down Golf Club	Vicomtesse de St Sauveur	France	3 & 2	Jessie Valentine
1949	Royal St David's Golf Club	Frances Stephens	England	5 & 4	Valerie Reddan
1948	Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club	Louise Suggs	United States	1 up	Jean Donald
1947	Gullane Golf Club	Babe Zaharias	United States	5 & 4	Jacqueline Gordon
1946	Hunstanton Golf Club	Jean Hetherington	England	1 up	Philomena Garvey
1940-1945: Not played due to World War II
1939	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Pamela Barton	England	2 & 1	Mrs. T Marks
1938	Burnham & Berrow Golf Club	Helen Holm	Scotland	4 & 3	Elsie Corlett
1937	Turnberry	Jessie Anderson	Scotland	6 & 4	Dorothy Park
1936	Southport & Ainsdale Golf Club	Pamela Barton	England	5 & 3	Bridgett Newell
1935	Royal County Down Golf Club	Wanda Morgan	England	3 & 2	Pamela Barton
1934	Royal Porthcawl Golf Club	Helen Holm	Scotland	6 & 5	Pamela Barton
1933	Gleneagles	Enid Wilson	England	5 & 4	Diana Plumpton
1932	Saunton Golf Club	Enid Wilson	England	7 & 6	Clem Purvis-Russell-Montgomery
1931	Portmarnock Golf Club	Enid Wilson	England	7 & 6	Wanda Morgan
1930	Formby Golf Club	Diana Fishwick	England	4 & 3	Glenna Collett-Vare
1929	St Andrews Links	Joyce Wethered	England	3 & 1	Glenna Collett-Vare
1928	Hunstanton Golf Club	Nanette le Blan	France	3 & 2	S. Marshall
1927	Royal County Down Golf Club	Simone de la Chaume	France	5 & 4	Dorothy Pearson
1926	Royal St David's Golf Club	Cecil Leitch	England	8 & 7	Marjorie Ross Garon
1925	Royal Troon Golf Club	Joyce Wethered	England	37 holes	Cecil Leitch
1924	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Joyce Wethered	England	7 & 6	Mrs. F. Cautley
1923	Burnham & Berrow Golf Club	Doris Chambers	England	2 up	Muriel Dodd Macbeth
1922	Royal St George's Golf Club	Joyce Wethered	England	9 & 7	Cecil Leitch
1921	Turnberry	Cecil Leitch	England	4 & 3	Joyce Wethered
1920	Royal County Down Golf Club	Cecil Leitch	England	7 & 6	Molly Griffiths
1915-1919: Not played due to World War I (1915-18) and a rail strike (1919)
1914	Hunstanton Golf Club	Cecil Leitch	England	2 & 1	Gladys Ravenscroft
1913	Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club	Muriel Dodd	England	8 & 6	Evelyn Chubb
1912	Turnberry	Gladys Ravenscroft	England	3 & 2	Stella Temple
1911	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Dorothy Campbell	Scotland	3 & 2	Violet Hezlet
1910	Royal North Devon Golf Club	Elsie Grant Suttie	Scotland	6 & 4	Lily Moore
1909	Royal Birkdale Golf Club	Dorothy Campbell	Scotland	4 & 3	Florence Hezlet
1908	St Andrews Links	Maud Titterton	Scotland	19 holes	Dorothy Campbell
1907	Royal County Down Golf Club	May Hezlet	Ireland	2 & 1	Florence Hezlet
1906	Burnham & Berrow Golf Club	Alice Kennion	England	4 & 3	Bertha Thompson
1905	Royal Cromer Golf Club	Bertha Thompson	England	3 & 2	Maud E. Stuart
1904	Royal Troon Golf Club	Lottie Dod	England	1 up	May Hezlet
1903	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Rhona Adair	Ireland	4 & 3	Florence Walker-Leigh
1902	Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club	May Hezlet	Ireland	19 holes	Elinor C. Neville
1901	Aberdovey Golf Club	Molly Graham	Scotland	3 & 1	Rhona Adair
1900	Royal North Devon Golf Club	Rhona Adair	Ireland	6 & 5	Isabel Neville
1899	Royal County Down Golf Club	May Hezlet	Ireland	2 & 1	Jesse Magill
1898	Great Yarmouth & Caister Golf Club	Lena Thomson	England	7 & 5	Elinor C. Neville
1897	Gullane Golf Club	Edith C. Orr	Scotland	4 & 2	Theodora Orr
1896	Royal Liverpool Golf Club	Amy Pascoe	England	3 & 2	Lena Thomson
1895	Royal Portrush Golf Club	Lady Margaret Scott	England	5 & 4	Emma M. Lythgoe
1894	Littlestone Golf Club	Lady Margaret Scott	England	3 & 2	Issette Pearson
1893	Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club	Lady Margaret Scott	England	7 & 5	Issette Pearson

[edit] Multiple winners

Eighteen players have won more than one British Ladies Amateur Championship, through 2006:

• 4 wins: Cecil Leitch, Joyce Wethered
• 3 wins: Lady Margaret Scott, May Hezlet, Enid Wilson, Jessie Valentine, Brigitte Varangot
• 2 wins: Rhona Adair, Dorothy Campbell, Helen Holm, Pamela Barton, Frances Stephens, Marley Spearman, Elizabeth Chadwick, Mickey Walker, Julie Wade Hall, Rebecca Hudson, Louise Stahle

Eleven players have won both the British Ladies and U.S. Women's Amateur Championships, through 2006:

• Dorothy Campbell:^ 1909, 1911 British; 1909, 1910, 1924 U.S.
• Gladys Ravenscroft: 1912 British; 1913 U.S.
• Pamela Barton:^ 1936, 1939 British; 1936 U.S.
• Babe Zaharias: 1947 British; 1946 U.S.
• Louise Suggs: 1948 British; 1947 U.S.
• Marlene Stewart Streit: 1953 British; 1956 U.S.
• Barbara McIntire: 1960 British; 1959, 1964 U.S.
• Catherine Lacoste:^ 1969 British; 1969 U.S.
• Carol Semple Thompson: 1974 British; 1973 U.S.
• Anne Quast: 1980 British; 1958, 1961, 1963 U.S.
• Kelli Kuehne:^ 1996 British; 1996 U.S.

^ Won both in same year.

[edit] External links

• Official site