Margaret Agnes Todd (née Sutcliffe; May 31, 1918 – July 15, 2019) was a Canadian golfer and an inductee in the

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. Born in

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, Margaret Todd (née Sutcliffe) joined the Uplands Golf Club, as a junior in 1936 and a year later, now Mrs. Jack Todd, became a member of the

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. In 1939, she won the club championship for the first of 14 times. In 1940, she added her initial

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& District title, which she went on to claim 10 times. After the war and a hiatus to raise her family, Todd was back playing near "scratch" and won three consecutive B.C. Amateur Ladies titles, seven

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Totem and three Empress competitions. In the 1950s, she qualified for both the Canadian and U.S. championships and gained the first of five selections to Canada's International Golf team playing in

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. In the 1970s, Todd, competing in the senior ladies, twice won titles in the City, Provincial and Canadian championships. Throughout her career she captained the B.C. Ladies and B.C. Senior Woman's team on 16 occasions. Her administrative accomplishments, since the 1960s, include Victoria and B.C. appointments to the national and international level. Todd has been honoured as a Life Member of the Victoria Golf Club, inducted into the BC Sports Hall of Fame and inducted into the

. She turned 100 in May 2018 and died in July 2019 at the age of 101 in Victoria, British Columbia.

Wins

*British Columbia Amateur (1947, 1948, 1949) *British Columbia Senior Ladies (1975, 1976) *Canadian Ladies' Senior (1976, 1977)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Todd, Margaret Canadian female golfers Amateur golfers Golfing people from Quebec Golfing people from British Columbia Canadian centenarians Women centenarians Sportspeople from Montreal 1918 births 2019 deaths