Janet Kay Melville (later Collingham, also Davies, born 16 March 1958) is an English golfer. She won two important championships, the 1978

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and the 1987 Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship.

Golf career

Melville played for England in the 1976 Girls Home Internationals. In 1978 she won the

at Foxhills, two strokes ahead of

Wilma Aitken Wilma Dickson Aitken (later Leburn, born 24 January 1959) is a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the 1977 Girls Amateur Championship and was a three-time winner of the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship. She was runner-up in the 1981 Br ...

. Vivien Saunders was the leading professional, tying for third place. She was a shot behind Aitken at the start of the final day but had two steady rounds of the final day and was only player to break 80 in all four rounds. Just four professionals competed, Later in 1978 she made her senior debut for England in the

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, while in 1979 she played for Great Britain & Ireland in the

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. In early 1987, playing with Pat Smillie, Melville was runner-up in the Avia Foursomes, a stroke behind Tracy Hammond and Susan Moorcraft. Later in the year she won the Ladies' British Open Amateur Championship at Royal St David's beating

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at the 19th hole of the final. Later in 1987 she played for Great Britain & Ireland in the

and for Great Britain in the

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in New Zealand. In 2008 she won the English senior stroke-play championship at Beau Desert, a stroke ahead of Carolyn Kirk. The same year she also tied for third place in the Ladies' Senior British Open Amateur Championship, a stroke behind the winner. Competing again as Janet Melville, she won the English senior stroke-play championship for a second time in 2012, at Shifnal, three strokes ahead of Sue Dye. In 2013 she won the English senior women’s amateur championship at her home club, Sherwood Forest, beating Chris Quinn 2&1 in the final.

Personal life

She married Gregg Collingham in 1984. She was a solicitor by profession.

Team appearances

(representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1979 (tied), 1987 (winners) *

(representing Great Britain): 1987 * European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England):

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(representing England): 1978 (winners), 1979, 1981, 1984 (winners), 1986, 1987 (winners), 1992 (winners) * Girls Home Internationals (representing England): 1976

References

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