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Thursday 19 May 1927AmateurYear in Review

Chaume wins the Women's Amateur

Royal County Down Golf Club, Newcastle, Northern Ireland

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 58 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 55° up at noon, and that night a waning 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 County Down Golf Club, Newcastle

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Simone Thion de la Chaume

5 & 4 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Dorothy Pearson

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1908-11-24, 17th arrondissement of Paris; France

Simone Thion de la Chaume’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