Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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>Svelte, 22-year-old Beatrice Barrett, Patty Berg's neighbor in Minneapolis, who set a new record for the Women's National when she posted 74 in the opening-day qualifying round, only two strokes above men's par for the long Wee Burn course.
At New York's Meadow Brook Club in 1895 a handful of U. S. "golf widows," clad in ground-sweeping skirts and cartwheel hats, staged a tournament to select a national women's golf champion. Best "golf-erine" of the day was Mrs. C. S. Brown of Shinnecock...
Since that time many able women golfers have swept over U. S. fairways-in swishing skirts, in hobble skirts, in knickerbockers, in shorts-have gradually whittled their scores: first to break 100 in national competition was New York's Beatrix Hoyt, thrice U. S. champion (1896-97-98); first...
Last week, when the Women's National Championship was played at the Wee Burn Club in Noroton, Conn., the topflight women golfers of the U. S. could look the menfolk square in the eye. Redheaded, 21-year-old Patty Berg, No. 1 woman golfer, was unable to defend her...
>Fortyish Mary K. Browne, national women's tennis champion in 1912-13-14 and runner-up for the national golf title in 1924, who, playing for fun while on vacation from teaching tennis in an Ohio school, got a 79, fifth best score in the qualifying round.