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Thursday 24 June 1926AmateurYear in Review

Leitch wins the Women's Amateur

Royal St David's Golf Club, Harlech, Wales

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

The weather

16 h 39 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 61° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous 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 St David's Golf Club, Harlech

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Cecil Leitch

8 & 7 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Marjorie Ross Garon

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1891-04-13, Silloth, England; England; age 35 at the win (year page)

Cecil Leitch’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