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Friday 20 May 1938AmateurYear in Review

Holm wins the Women's Amateur

Burnham & Berrow Golf Club, Burnham-on-Sea, 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 35 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° 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

Burnham & Berrow Golf Club, Burnham-on-Sea

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Helen Holm

4 & 3 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Elsie Corlett

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1907-03-14, Partick, Scotland; Scotland; age 31 at the win (year page)

Helen Holm’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