Elaine Virginia Rosenthal Reinhart (July 3, 1896 — May 12, 1993) won the
Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
golf championship in 1915, 1918, and 1925.
[ Her home course was the Ravisloe Country Club in ]Homewood, Illinois
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Biography
She was born as Elaine Virginia Rosenthal on July 3, 1896, in Chicago, Illinois
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to Benjamin Jefferson Rosenthal and Hannah W. Stumer. She won the Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
championship in 1915 and 1918. She married Sylvain Louis Reinhardt of Dallas, Texas
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on December 10, 1921, in Chicago, Illinois. Her husband was on the Yale Bulldogs football team at Yale University
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.[ She won the Women's Western Amateur championship a third time in 1925 at the Glen View Country Club.][ Her combined three-day score was a 256, beating her closest rival, Virginia Wilson, who scored a 264. She also defeated the previous champion, Lucia Mida, who scored a 274.]North and South Women's Amateur The North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament held since 1903 at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. An invitational tournament, participants are chosen based upon their performance in national ama ...
in 1917 and finished runner-up to Katherine Harley in the 1914 U.S. Women's Amateur
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.
She married George S. Moseley on March 15, 1939.
She died in Geneva, Illinois
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on May 12, 1993.
Legacy
She was inducted into the Illinois Golf Hall of Fame in 1995.
Tournament wins
*1915 Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
*1917 North and South Women's Amateur The North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf tournament held since 1903 at the Pinehurst Resort in Pinehurst, North Carolina. An invitational tournament, participants are chosen based upon their performance in national ama ...
*1918 Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
*1925 Women's Western Amateur The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the ...
References
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American female golfers
Jewish American golfers
Golfers from Chicago
People from Homewood, Illinois
Sportspeople from Cook County, Illinois
1896 births
1993 deaths
20th-century American sportswomen