1908 Women’s Amateur: Maud Titterton wins at St Andrews Links
Maud Titterton won the 1908 Women’s Amateur at St Andrews Links in St Andrews, Fife, beating Dorothy Campbell Hurd won on 19th hole in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 16th
- Dates
- 22 May 1908
- Course
- St Andrews Links, St Andrews, Fife
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Maud Titterton · England
- Champion's title
- 1st Women’s Amateur title
- Runner-up
- Dorothy Campbell Hurd · age 25
- Final
- won on 19th hole (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 148
- Losing semifinalists
- Cecil Leitch and Hilda Mather
- Defending champion
- May Hezlet
- Entries
- 148
What happened at the 1908 Women’s Amateur
Maud Titterton beat Dorothy Campbell at the 19th hole of the first final on the Old Course at St Andrews (Spalding: 'winner - after a tie').
The final started late because Campbell's semi-final went to the 22nd hole (Wikipedia), and a 17-year-old Cecil Leitch reached the semi-finals on her debut.
The draw
Every match is recorded through the final.
The final, 1908 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maud Titterton | def. | Dorothy Campbell Hurd | won on 19th hole |
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 1908-05-23 'Ladies' open championship')
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship (results-table citation of the Glasgow Herald report dated 1908-05-23)
- https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficia14unite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/210559209
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Campbell
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- https://www.golfcompendium.com/2020/08/british-womens-amateur-winners.html
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maud_Titterton