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Friday 21 May 1909AmateurYear in Review

Hurd wins the Women's Amateur

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport, England

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

15 h 59 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a waxing crescent moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. The Women's Amateur

1893–2026 in our record, 123 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Nothing else in our record that week.

Women's amateur championship

The Women's Amateur

Royal Birkdale Golf Club, Southport

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Dorothy Campbell Hurd

4 & 3 (18-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Florence Hezlet

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1883-03-24, North Berwick, Scotland; age 26 at the win (year page)

Dorothy Campbell Hurd’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet