1905 Women’s Amateur: Bertha Thompson wins at Royal Cromer Golf Club
Bertha Thompson won the 1905 Women’s Amateur at Royal Cromer Golf Club in Cromer, Norfolk, beating Maud Stuart 3 & 2 in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 13th
- Dates
- 2 June 1905
- Course
- Royal Cromer Golf Club, Cromer, Norfolk
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Bertha Thompson · age 28 · England
- Champion's title
- 1st Women’s Amateur title
- Runner-up
- Maud Stuart
- Final
- 3 & 2 (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 137
- Losing semifinalists
- Winifred Brown and Dorothy Campbell Hurd
- Defending champion
- Lottie Dod
- Entries
- 137
What happened at the 1905 Women’s Amateur
Maud Stuart became the fifth Irish finalist in seven years but lost 3 and 2 to Bertha Thompson at Royal Cromer.
Nine Americans, including the US champion, entered at Cromer but none reached the closing stages (Sydney Mail 1905-07-19).
The draw
Every match is recorded through the final.
The final, 1905 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bertha Thompson | def. | Maud Stuart | 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://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship (Glasgow Herald 1905-06-03 'Ladies' championship')
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship (results-table citation of the Glasgow Herald report dated 1905-06-03)
- https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficia14unite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/165000947
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_Thompson
- 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