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Rhona Adair

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where they were playing. Morris was quoted as having said "I'll no' be licked by a lassie", but only won on the final green. Adair went on to win the British Ladies Amateur in 1900 and again in 1903. She also won four straight
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and gave up her career in competitive golf to raise two children in Aldershot. Cuthell was killed in action in the Dardanelles during
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She played several golfing exhibition matches on a 1903 tour of the United States. While there she befriended
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champion. Hecker asked her to contribute a chapter on British golf for her book published in 1904 titled
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In October 1906, Adair married Algernon Cuthell, an army Captain from
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to say that she was "the foremost lady golfer in the world".
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republished in 2001 as part of the Legacy Golf series (
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Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships
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Index


Cookstown
Coleraine
Northern Ireland
Irish
golfer
British Ladies Amateur
Irish Ladies' Close Championships
Cookstown
County Tyrone
Ireland
May Hezlet
British Ladies Amateur
Old Tom Morris
St Andrews Links
Irish Ladies' Close Championships
Genevieve Hecker
U.S. Women's Amateur
Margaret Curtis
Merion, Philadelphia
West Yorkshire
World War I
Irish Ladies Golf Union
Portrush
County Antrim



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