1902 Women’s Amateur: May Hezlet wins at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club
May Hezlet won the 1902 Women’s Amateur at Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club in Deal, Kent, beating Elinor Nevile won on 20th hole in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 10th
- Dates
- 30 May 1902
- Course
- Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club, Deal, Kent
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- May Hezlet · age 20 · Ireland
- Champion's title
- 2nd Women’s Amateur title
- Runner-up
- Elinor Nevile
- Final
- won on 20th hole (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 110
- Losing semifinalists
- Mrs. Mungo Park and Sybil Whigham
- Defending champion
- Molly Graham · lost in the round of 16
- Entries
- 110
What happened at the 1902 Women’s Amateur
May Hezlet beat Elinor Nevile at the 20th hole, 'after one of the finest matches ever seen in the championship', Nevile losing it by failing to hole a short putt (Sydney Mail 1902-07-19).
Both 1902 semi-final winners, Hezlet and Nevile, played the new rubber-cored Haskell ball (Sydney Mail 1902-07-19).
The draw
Every match is recorded through the final.
The final, 1902 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| May Hezlet | def. | Elinor Nevile | won on 20th hole |
Semifinals, 1902 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elinor Nevile | def. | Sybil Whigham | unknown |
| May Hezlet | def. | Mrs. Mungo Park | unknown |
Round of 16, 1902 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elinor Nevile | def. | Molly Graham | unknown |
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/165381679
- 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 1902-05-31)
- https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficia14unite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_Hezlet
- 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