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Thursday 27 June 1957AmateurYear in Review

Garvey wins the Women's Amateur

Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder, Scotland

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

The weather

17 h 22 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 57° up at noon, and that night a new 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

Women's amateur championship

The Women's Amateur

Gleneagles, Auchterarder

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Philomena Garvey

4 & 3 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Jessie Valentine

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1926-04-26; Ireland

Philomena Garvey’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