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Women in Golf

By yeow.2
  • Feb 9, 1567

    Mary Queen of Scots

    Mary Queen of Scots
    Mary Queen of Scots was an early advocate of the game. A few days after her husband (Lord Darnley) death (murder), she was out playing golf on the links. She is no doubt the first "golf widow". She was ventually convicted of treason and beheaded.

  • First Women's Golf Tournament

    First Women's Golf Tournament
    The first women's golf tournament was believe to be played at Musselburgh Golf Club in Scotland.

  • First Women Golf Club Maker

    First Women Golf Club Maker
    It appears that Isobel Denholm carried on her husbands golf club maker business after his death. It appears she did it for 3 years. No ther information is available.

  • First Women's Golf Club

    First Women's Golf Club
    St Andrews Ladies golf Club formed. It was really a putting club because dresses were to restrictive at the time to swing. They would play the "Himalayas" 18-hole putting green.

  • First Women Professional

    First Women Professional
    Helen Hicks becomes the first women golfer to turn professional. There are no professional women tournaments, she makes money from promoting Wilson-Western Sporting Goods Company

  • First American to Win British Ladies' Open

    First American to Win British Ladies' Open
    Babe Didrikson Zaharias is the first American to win the British Ladies' Open Amateur. She turns pro later that year.As an amateur golfer, Babe won an amazing 13 consecutive tournaments during 1946. The next year, she was the first American to win the British Amateur. Among her 55 tournament victories were three U.S. Women's Opens. With Zaharias, Patty Berg and Fred Corcoran, she founded the Ladies Professional Golf Association in 1949.

  • NCAA Champion

    NCAA Champion
    Marilyn Smith wins the National Intercollegial Tournament for the University of Kansas. She pays her own travel expenses because the Univeristy had no women's golf team.

  • LPGA Founded

    LPGA Founded
    The LPGA - Ladies Professional Golf Association was founded by 13 women. Those women were the sisters Alice and Marlene Bauer, Patty Berg (first president), Bettye Danoff, Helen Dettweiler, Helen Hicks, Opal Hill, Betty Mameson, Sally Sessions, Marilynn Smith, Shirley Spork, Louise Suggs, and Babe Didrikson Zaharias.