Jean Donald
Summary
- Amateur runner-up 1948 Women's Amateur
Near misses
- 1948 The Women's Amateur Championship Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club · runner-up to Louise Suggs · 1 up
Moments
Records and firsts
- — PGA Championship largest margin in any 36-hole match · 12 & 11 (seven times: Barnes over Denback and Cowan, Ogg over Anderson, Hagen over McLean (all 1923); Mortie Dutra over Alcroft (1927); Revolta over Gerlak (1933); Laffoon over Bass (1942))
Results by championship
Best day
1948 Women's Amateur
Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club · runner-up to Louise Suggs · 1 up
Chosen by rule: the most recent near miss. Year page: 1948.
Career line, 1948–1948
1 results. Hover or tap a mark; click it for the year.
- Runner-up
Jean Donald was born on May 2, 1921, in North Berwick, Scotland. Donald was runner-up at the 1948 Women's Amateur.
See Jean Donald in our rooms: U.S. Open, The Open, Greatest Golfer by State, Every Ground and The Women's Amateur.
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The record
Near misses
- 1948 The Women's Amateur Championship Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club · runner-up to Louise Suggs · 1 up
Records and firsts
Rows from our record tables that name this player, worded as the tables word them.
- — PGA Championship largest margin in any 36-hole match · 12 & 11 (seven times: Barnes over Denback and Cowan, Ogg over Anderson, Hagen over McLean (all 1923); Mortie Dutra over Alcroft (1927); Revolta over Gerlak (1933); Laffoon over Bass (1942))
Profile
Researched for this card in October 2026; each line names the page it comes from.
Born
- May 2, 1921 Wikipedia
Birthplace
- North Berwick, Scotland Wikipedia
Nationality
- Scotland Wikipedia
Died
- May 16, 1984 Wikipedia
Full name
- Jean Macalister Donald Wikipedia
Other names
- Anderson (married surname, 1958) Wikipedia
Status
- professional, turned professional in 1954 Wikipedia
Died in
- Gullane, Scotland Wikipedia
Beyond our rooms
- 1947 Scottish Women's Amateur Championship won
- 1949 Scottish Women's Amateur Championship won
- 1952 Scottish Women's Amateur Championship won
- 1948 Curtis Cup GB&I team
- 1950 Curtis Cup GB&I team
- 1952 Curtis Cup GB&I team (winners)
- 1954 Spalding Women's Open Stroke Play won
Source: Wikipedia: Jean Donald
Known for
- Scottish golfer who won the Scottish Women's Amateur three times, played in three Curtis Cups and turned professional in 1954 after a change to the amateur-status rules. 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.