Polly Ann Riley (August 27, 1926 – March 13, 2002) was an American amateur

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er.

Career

Riley won over 100 tournaments in her career. Although she remained an amateur throughout her career, she won the first

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event, the 1950 Tampa Open. Riley was runner-up in the 1953

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Mary Lena Faulk Mary Lena Faulk (April 15, 1926 – August 3, 1995) was an American professional golfer. Faulk was born in Chipley, Florida. At the age of 14 she moved to Thomasville, Georgia, where she won three consecutive Georgia Women's Amateur Matchplay C ...

.1953 U.S. Women's Amateur
/ref> She played on the U.S.

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teams six times (1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958) and was the captain in 1962. She mistook golfer

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for a maid at the Women's Amateur in Williamstown, Massachusetts in 1963.

Tournament wins

''this list is incomplete'' *1947 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur *1948 Women's Southern Amateur, Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur,

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*1950 Women's Southern Amateur,

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, Tampa Open (

) *1951 Women's Southern Amateur *1952

*1953 Women's Southern Amateur *1954 Women's Southern Amateur *1955 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur,

*1961 Women's Southern Amateur

Team appearances

Amateur *

(representing the United States):

1948 Events January * January 1 ** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated. ** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...

(winners),

1950 Events January * January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed. * January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...

(winners),

1952 Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, ...

1954 Events January * 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 ...

(winners),

1956 Events January * January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan after 57 years. * January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian Missionary, missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, E ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the thir ...

(tie),

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

(non-playing captain, winners)

References

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