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Janet Collingham

England · born , Lancashire, England

2championship wins

Summary

  • Titles 1978 Women's Open and 1987 Women's Amateur

Wins

Other wins

  1. 1978 AIG Women's Open Foxhills Golf Club · 310

Amateur titles

  1. 1987 The Women's Amateur Championship Royal St David's Golf Club · 19 holes

Results by championship

    Best day

    1978 Women's Open

    Foxhills Golf Club · won 310

    Twenty-year-old amateur Janet Melville won on Foxhills' Chertsey Course, two strokes clear of fellow amateur Wilma Aitken.

    Chosen by rule: the first championship title. Year page: 1978.

    Career line, 1978–1987

    Women's Open
    1978 Women's Open: won
    Women's Amateur
    1987 Women's Amateur: won
    19801985

    2 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.

    • Other win

    Janet Collingham was born on March 16, 1958, in Lancashire, England. Collingham won the 1978 Women's Open and the 1987 Women's Amateur.

    See Janet Collingham in our rooms: Every Ground and The Women's Amateur.

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    The record

    Other wins in championships we cover (1)

    1. 1978 AIG Women's Open Foxhills Golf Club · 310

    Amateur titles (1)

    1. 1987 The Women's Amateur Championship Royal St David's Golf Club · 19 holes

    Profile

    Researched for this card in October 2026; each line names the page it comes from.

    Full name

    Other names

    Status

    Beyond our rooms

    • 1979 Vagliano Trophy Great Britain & Ireland team (tied)
    • 1987 Vagliano Trophy Great Britain & Ireland team (winners)

    Source: Wikipedia: Janet Melville

    Known for

    • Janet Kay Melville (later Collingham, also Davies; born 16 March 1958) is an English golfer. Wikipedia

    Sources

    Elsewhere: Wikipedia · Wikidata.

    Every fact on this page comes from Golf Network News data sets compiled in October 2026 (Masters, PGA Championship, The Open, U.S. Women's Open, Ryder Cup, PGA Tour 2024–2026, major host sites, Champions Dinner menus, and the U.S. Open and state rooms). These are the sources those rows cite.

    1. Wikipedia: Janet Melville
    2. Wikipedia: Janet Collingham
    3. Wikidata: Q113627337
    4. Wikipedia: Women's British Open
    5. aigwomensopen.com: records
    6. golfmonthly.com: 9 forgotten aig womens open venues
    7. Wikipedia: Foxhills Golf Club
    8. Wikipedia: Women's Amateur Championship
    9. golfcompendium.com: british womens amateur winners
    10. Wikipedia: 全英女子アマチュア選手権