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1954 Curtis Cup
The 8th Curtis Cup Match was played on September 2 and 3, 1954 at the Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pennsylvania. The United States won by 6 matches to 3. The United States won all three foursomes matches and won three of the six singles matches. Format The contest was played over two days, with three foursomes on the first day and six singles matches on the second day, a total of 9 points. Matches were over 36 holes. Each of the 9 matches was worth one point in the larger team competition. If a match was all square after the 18th hole extra holes were not played. Rather, each side earned a point toward their team total. The team that accumulated at least 5 points won the competition. Teams Dorothy Beck did not select herself for any matches. Thursday's foursomes matches 18-hole scores: Faulk/Riley 3 up, Doran/Lesser 7 up, Kirby/Romack 3 up Friday's singles matches 18-hole scores: Stephens 1 up, Bisgood 1 up, Riley 8 up, Garvey/Kirby all square, Smith 2 up, Ziske 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Merion Golf Club
Merion Golf Club is a private golf club located in Haverford Township, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, a township bordering Philadelphia to the northwest along the historic Main Line. The club has two courses: the East Course, and the West Course. The East Course has been consistently rated in the top 10, #5 in 2015, by '' Golf Digest'' in the annual "America's 100 Greatest Golf Courses", and it has hosted five U.S. Opens, most recently in 2013. History Original course Claus Johnson, the eldest son of John Johnson and Christina Skute, was born sometime prior to 1712 and died about 1786. He married, 30 March 1734, Rebecca Bankson, the daughter of Andrew Bankson Jr., and his wife Gertrude Boore. Claus and Rebecca were living in Neshaminy, Bensalem, Bucks County, PA. in 1740 when he contributed 10 shillings to Gloria Dei, and also at the time of the church census on 20 November 1743. In 1744 they bought a farm in Haverford Township, now in Delaware County, from Amos Lewis. The E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joyce Ziske
Joyce Ziske (born May 20, 1934 and also known as Joyce Ziske Malison) is an American professional golfer. As an amateur, Ziske won the Wisconsin Women's Amateur twice and the North and South Women's Amateur. She played on the 1954 Curtis Cup team. Ziske turned professional on February 8, 1955, and played on the LPGA Tour from 1955 to 1960. In 1960 she won the Women's Western Open which was one of the LPGA major championships at that time. She had her best finish in the U.S. Women's Open that same year, placing second. She retired from professional golf in 1960 after marrying Tom Malison in June 1961, but she played competitively at least once. In 1975, she was elected to the Wisconsin Golf Hall of Fame. Amateur wins ''this list may be incomplete'' *1949 District Junior Girls Golf Invitational Tournament *1952 Milwaukee County Women's Tournament, Wisconsin Women's Amateur *1954 Palm Beach Women's Amateur, North and South Women's Amateur, Wisconsin Women's Amateur Profession ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1954 In American Sports
Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head office of IBM. * January 10 – BOAC Flight 781, a de Havilland Comet jet plane, disintegrates in mid-air due to metal fatigue, and crashes in the Mediterranean near Elba; all 35 people on board are killed. * January 12 – 1954 Blons avalanches, Avalanches in Austria kill more than 200. * January 15 – Mau Mau rebellion, Mau Mau leader Waruhiu Itote is captured in Kenya. * January 17 – In Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Yugoslavia, Milovan Đilas, one of the leading members of the League of Communists of Yugoslavia, is relieved of his duties. * January 20 – The US-based National Negro Network is established, with 46 m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golf In Pennsylvania
Golf is a club-and-ball sport in which players use various clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a course in as few strokes as possible. Golf, unlike most ball games, cannot and does not use a standardized playing area, and coping with the varied terrains encountered on different courses is a key part of the game. Courses typically have either 18 or 9 ''holes'', regions of terrain that each contain a ''cup'', the hole that receives the ball. Each hole on a course contains a teeing ground to start from, and a putting green containing the cup. There are several standard forms of terrain between the tee and the green, such as the fairway, rough (tall grass), and various ''hazards'' such as water, rocks, or sand-filled ''bunkers''. Each hole on a course is unique in its specific layout. Golf is played for the lowest number of strokes by an individual, known as stroke play, or the lowest score on the most individual holes in a complete round by an individual or team, k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessie Valentine
Jessie Valentine (née Anderson) (18 March 1915 – 6 April 2006) was a Scottish amateur golfer who won the British Ladies Amateur in 1937, 1955 and 1958. In 1937, after winning the British Ladies title at Turnberry she was the world number one ranking ladies golfer. Valentine was one of the dominant figures in women's golf for a period which spanned two decades from the mid-1930s to the mid-1950s. In 1959, she was the first woman golfer to be appointed as an MBE for services to golf and she was inducted into the Scottish Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. She was considered one of Perthshire's greatest sporting personalities of all time and was known locally as "Wee Jessie" and the "Queen of Golf". Early life Valentine was born Jessie Anderson in Perth, Scotland on 18 March 1915. Her father, Joe Anderson, was for some time the professional at Craigie Hill Golf Club in Perth. She started playing golf aged five and was trained by her father, who entered her in the British Girls ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frances Stephens (golfer)
Frances "Bunty" Stephens (married name Frances Stephens Smith or Frances Smith Stephens; 26 July 1924 – 23 July 1978) was an English amateur golfer. Personal life Stephens was born in Lancashire where her father Fred was club professional at Bootle Golf Club. She faced discrimination from golf administrators because of his working class occupation. In 1955 she married Roy Smith, a Scottish Airlines pilot killed in a 1957 crash in Libya. They had one daughter. Stephens curtailed her playing career to raise her daughter, but subsequently was active in golf administration and developing junior golf. She was made OBE for "services to Ladies Golf" in the 1977 New Year Honours, a year before her death from cancer. Golf career Stephens' home club was Royal Birkdale. She won the British Ladies Amateur in 1949 and 1954, and was runner-up in 1951 and 1952. She played in all six Curtis Cups from 1950 to 1960, and was non-playing captain of the Great Britain and Ireland team in 1962 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janette Robertson
Janette Sneddon Wright ( Robertson, born 7 January 1935) is a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship in 1959, 1960, 1961 and 1973. She was in four Curtis Cup teams, in 1954, 1956, 1958 and 1960. Golf career Wright won the Girls Amateur Championship in 1950 beating Ann Phillips 5&4 in the final. She was a finalist again in 1951, losing to Jane Redgate at the 19th hole. She played in the England–Scotland girls match each year from 1950 to 1953. In 1952 she made her senior debut in the Women's Home Internationals. She won her three matches with Scotland retaining the title. Wright was part of the British juniors team that played in the Commonwealth tournament at Formby in early July 1953. The other teams were Britain, Canada and New Zealand. Wright was one of the last two women selected for the 1954 Curtis Cup team at Merion Golf Club. The Americans won by 6 matches to 3. Wright lost her foursomes match but beat Joyce Ziske in the singles. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Price (golfer)
Elizabeth Price (later Price-Fisher, 17 January 1923 – 23 May 2008) was an English amateur golfer. She won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship in 1959 and twice a losing finalist. She was three times runner-up in the English Women's Amateur Championship and won the Spalding Women's Open Stroke Play twice. She played in six successive Curtis Cup matches from 1950 to 1960. Golf career As a 15-year-old, Price played in the 1938 Girls Amateur Championship at Stoke Poges, winning her opening match before losing in the second round. In 1947 she reached the final of the first post-war English Women's Amateur Championship, at Ganton, losing to Mollie Wallis in the 36-hole final. The match was level after the morning round. Price was 3 up after 23 holes before Wallis recovered to level the match after 27 holes and then pulled ahead to win 3 and 1. In 1948 she made her debut for En9gland in the Women's Home Internationals at Royal Lytham. England won the title thanks to a n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marjorie Peel
Marjorie is a female given name derived from Margaret (name), Margaret, which means pearl. It can also be spelled as Margery (name), Margery or Marjory. Marjorie is a medieval variant of Margery, influenced by the name of the herb marjoram. It came into English from the Old French, from the Latin ''Margarita (given name), Margarita'' (pearl). After the Middle Ages this name was rare, but it was revived at the end of the 19th century. Short forms of the name include Marge, Margie, Marj (other)#People, Marj and Jorie. People *Marjorie, Countess of Carrick (also Margaret) (1253–1292), mother of Robert the Bruce *Marjorie Abbatt (1899–1991), English toy maker and businesswoman *Marjorie Acker (1894–1985), American artist *Marjorie Agosín (born 1955), American writer, activist, and professor *Marjorie Anderson (1913–1999), British actress and BBC radio broadcaster *Marjorie Ogilvie Anderson (1909–2002), Scottish historian and paleographer *Marjorie Arnfield (1930� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philomena Garvey
Philomena Garvey (26 April 1926 – 5 May 2009) was an Irish amateur golfer, the daughter of James and Kathleen Garvey (née Owens). She was born in the village of Baltray, which is on the north shore of the Boyne estuary approximately four miles from the town of Drogheda. Career In 1946, at age 20, Garvey won the first of fifteen Irish Women's Amateur Close Championships. She won again in 1947 and 1948 and was not beaten until the second round in 1949. The won again in 1950 and 1951 and was beaten for the second time, again the second round, in 1952. From 1953 to 1963 she was unbeaten in the event, winning it 9 further times, missing the event in 1956, when it clashed with Curtis Cup practice and in 1961, when she sustained an ankle injury during the Womens Amateur Championship. She represented Ireland at the Women's Home Internationals, eighteen times, every year from 1947 until 1969, except 1955 when she withdrew through injury and from 1964 to 1967 when as a professional sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeanne Bisgood
Jeanne Mary Bisgood (born 11 August 1923) is an English former amateur golfer. She won the English Women's Amateur Championship three times, in 1951, 1953 and 1957 and played in the Curtis Cup three times, in 1950, 1952 and 1954. Early life Bisgood was born on 11 August 1923, the daughter of the Bert Bisgood and Dorothy Cundall, who were married in 1922. Bert Bisgood had played cricket for Somerset, becoming the first Somerset cricketer to score a century on debut. He was also a badminton international for Ireland. Dorothy was also a noted badminton player, winning three doubles titles at the All England Open Badminton Championships. She had previously married, in 1912, to Major Douglas Harvey, who was killed in Mesopotamia in 1917, with whom she had a son Ian Harvey who became a Conservative MP. Golf career As a 15-year-old, Bisgood played in the 1938 Girls Amateur Championship at Stoke Poges, losing 5&4 to Sheila Stroyan in the second round. In August 1945, she won th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
