Their Sylvia Pankhursts were their great
golfers who could not fail to be imitated by other
women and to be admired by the men: Mrs. Dorothy Campbell Hurd, a Scots girl, who (circa 1910) won the Scottish, British, Canadian and American championships; Cecil Leitch, the first
woman who decided that there was no reason a
woman shouldn't attack the ball forcefully like the
best men players, and who did so with such a natural dash; the incomparable Joyce Wethered, who succeeded Miss Leitch after World War I as the queen
of the British links and is remembered as the most consummate
of women stylists; Glenna Collett, the pertinacious girl from Providence, the first great American champion, who won our national title six times between 1922 and 1935, and in more recent years such superb players as Patty Berg and the majestic Babe Didrikson Zaharias who «made»
women's professional golf after she had become in 1947 the first American to win the British Ladies Championship.
held its first Annual Charity Golf Tournament, in support
of the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation and Central Alberta
Women's Shelter recently, with 156
golfers putting their
best ball forward.