1909 Women’s Amateur: Dorothy Campbell Hurd wins at Royal Birkdale Golf Club
Dorothy Campbell Hurd won the 1909 Women’s Amateur at Royal Birkdale Golf Club in Southport, Merseyside, beating Florence Hezlet 4 & 3 in the final.
Updated 23 October 2026
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- Edition
- 17th
- Dates
- 21 May 1909
- Course
- Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, Merseyside
- Format
- match play
- Champion
- Dorothy Campbell Hurd · age 26 · Scotland
- Champion's title
- 1st Women’s Amateur title
- Runner-up
- Florence Hezlet
- Final
- 4 & 3 (18-hole final)
- Match-play field
- 143
- Losing semifinalists
- Doris Chambers and Katharine Stuart
- Defending champion
- Maud Titterton
- Entries
- 143
What happened at the 1909 Women’s Amateur
Dorothy Campbell nearly forfeited her third-round match at Birkdale, which she won on the 11th green, by forgetting to report the result to the LGU officials (Wikipedia, Dorothy Campbell).
Campbell then beat Florence Hezlet 4 and 3 in the final and went on to win the US Women's Amateur the same year.
Final, Dorothy Campbell v. Florence Hezlet. Dorothy Campbell beat Florence Hezlet 4 and 3 at Birkdale, the first of her two British titles.
The draw
Every match is recorded through the final.
The final, 1909 Women’s Amateur
| Winner | Beaten | Result | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dorothy Campbell Hurd | def. | Florence Hezlet | 4 & 3 |
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 1909-05-22 'The ladies' championship')
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship (results-table citation of the Glasgow Herald report dated 1909-05-22)
- https://archive.org/details/spaldingsofficia14unite
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Women%27s_Amateur_Championship
- 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://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