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Littlestone and in 1902 she was on the national team for the international golf cup. She had missed the national the year before and a match against Scotland due to illness. The following year she was asked to report on a golf championship by a newspaper. More work followed. She was working as a ladies companion but by 1906 she was making a good living from journalism. At the beginning her reports went to the society pages of a wide range of periodicals but in time women's golf was mentioned in newspaper's sports sections.
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Stringer became an active member of the Ladies' Golf Union and during her time the union developed a handicap system that was much more rigorous than the system developed for men. She competed nearly every year in the national championship but she was rarely a top player. She held the (joint) woman's
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Harriet and Henry Stringer and she was the first of seven. Her father was a solicitor. She was interested in outdoor pursuits including cricket and shooting her catapult. By the time the local Littlestone Ladies' Club was formed in 1891 she had discovered her love for the
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In 1921 Stringer decided that women over fifty might appreciate having their own golf club and she founded the "Veteran Ladies Golf Club". The concept took off and by 1969 there was a VGLA in
Scotland, in the Midlands, in "the North" and in the South of England.
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Gentlewoman Tournament", which was won by Audrey Croft. The competition had been first organised (and cancelled) before the war by Stringer, but now she was the Gentlewoman's Sports editor the competition took off at
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In 1909 Littlestone golf club finally replaced the corrugated iron facilities for women heated by a small oil stove and
Stringer was keen to point out the improving facilities for women at other golf clubs.
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