Word: collette
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Glenna Collett, Providence 47 42 89 (National Champion...
Unless there are Mexican and Alaskan tournaments, Glenna Collett of Providence is women's golf champion of North America. The little national champion crossed over into Canada with seven other American women, mixed with Britishers and Canadians, whirled through the lot to the Canadian women's open title. In beating Edith Leitch of England, 5 and 4, Miss Collett ticked off the first nine in 37. In the semi-finals she disposed of Alexa Stirling, 3 and 2. Mrs. W. A. Gavin of England, defending titleholder, met her at the last, but Glenna received congratulations on the 34th...
...Buffalo Country Club's annual invitation tournament, to which the finest players among the country's women invariably rush like cats to cream, was won by Miss Glenna Collett. She defeated in the finals Miss Ada Mackenzie, former Canadian champion, who had previously eliminated Miss Alexa Sterling...
...what was probably the greatest golf ever played by a woman, Alexa Stirling took the Metropolitan Championship (New York) from Mrs. G. M. Heckscher, 11 and 9. Miss Stirling went out in 36, even par, and sank her final putt coming home for a 40. The 76 broke Glenna Collett's record for the difficult Westchester-Biltmore course by two strokes. Her brilliance indicates that she is ready to assume again the American championship, which she laid at the feet of Miss Hollins three years...
...Glenna Collett walked into the clubhouse of the Whitemarsh Valley Club, Philadelphia, after the first round of the Eastern Women's Championship with a card of 78−the first woman to break 80 for the course. Two days later she won the tournament with six strokes to spare over Alexa Sterling...