1896 Women’s Amateur: Amy Pascoe wins at Royal Liverpool Golf Club
Amy Pascoe won the 1896 Women’s Amateur at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in Hoylake, Merseyside, beating Lena Thomson 3 & 2 in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 4th
- Dates
- 15 May 1896
- Course
- Royal Liverpool Golf Club, Hoylake, Merseyside
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Amy Pascoe · age 30 · England
- Champion's title
- 1st Women’s Amateur title
- Runner-up
- Lena Thomson · age 27
- Final
- 3 & 2 (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 82
- Losing semifinalists
- Katherine Moeller and Issette Pearson
- Defending champion
- Lady Margaret Scott · did not play
- Entries
- 82
What happened at the 1896 Women’s Amateur
Amy Pascoe of Wimbledon beat her clubmate Lena Thomson 3 and 2 at Hoylake to become the first new champion after Lady Margaret Scott's three wins.
Issette Pearson, runner-up in the first two championships and honorary secretary of the LGU, reached the semi-finals again in 1896.
The draw
Every match is recorded through the final.
The final, 1896 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amy Pascoe | def. | Lena Thomson | 3 & 2 |
How this was built
Every value is shown as recorded in GNN's Women’s Amateur data set (research collected through 20 October 2026). "unknown" means no source confirmed it; nothing is estimated. Where sources disagree, the R&A's own record is used.
Data: womens-amateur.json.
Sources
- https://www.randa.org/en/championships/womens-amateur-championship-past-winners
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/52512735
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship (results-table citation of the Glasgow Herald report dated 1896-05-16)
- https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficia14unite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Pascoe
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lena_Thomson
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- https://www.golfcompendium.com/2020/08/british-womens-amateur-winners.html
- https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%85%A8%E8%8B%B1%E5%A5%B3%E5%AD%90%E3%82%A2%E3%83%9E%E3%83%81%E3%83%A5%E3%82%A2%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B%E6%A8%A9