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Joyce Wethered (born 17 November 1901 in Surrey, England — died 18 November 1997, London) was a golfer widely regarded as the greatest British woman player of her time. Wethered and her brother Roger, who tied for the British Open title in 1921 but lost the play-off, learned the game as children. She won the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship four times (1922, 1924, 1925, and 1929) and English Ladies' champion for five consecutive years (1920–24). After her marriage in 1924, she was ... known as Lady Heathcote-Amory.
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The British golfer Joyce Wethered (1901-97), winner of four British amateur and five English amateur championships, is often considered the greatest female golfer in the history of the game. One of the most famous women players of all time was Babe Didrikson Zaharias, an American who excelled both as an amateur and as a professional. Other noted American women include Kathy Whitworth (1939-), who has won the most tournaments for women, and Patty Berg (1918-),who has won the most major titles. See ... World Almanac: Professional Golfers' Association Leading Money Winners, by Year; World Almanac: Ladies Professional Golf Association Leading Money Winners.
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In 1935 the great British golfer Joyce Wethered embarked on a barnstorming tour of the United States. Wethered was one of the greatest women players of her era; she had won four British Women's Amateur titles and now, at the end of her competitive career, she turned professional for a three-month world tour. One of her stops was at a new resort and golf course in California called Pebble Beach. Wethered's friend Marion Hollins, a former U.S. Women's Amateur champion, was selling real estate at the resort and helping to promote it; eager to drum up publicity, she invited Wethered to play. On August 18, a thousand spectators turned out to watch Wethered and three top male amateurs go head to head in match play from the back tees. Though Wethered and her partner lost (she played the front nine in 39, and the back in 43), she pronounced Pebble Beach the best course she had ever played.
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It was at the English Ladies' Championship in 1920 that Joyce Wethered, standing over a putt to win on the 17th at Sheringham, never even looked up when a train came whistling past. When asked whether she'd considered waiting until the train had passed, Joyce replied: "What train?"
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Although she wasn’t a part of Britain’s royal family, Joyce Wethered, born Nov. 17, 1901 in Devon, England, was considered by many to be the queen of British amateur golf. If this wasn’t enough, Bobby Jones believed that she was the greatest golfer he had ever seen.
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This is an intriguing autobiography by Joyce Wethered, the best English woman golfer and arguably the best woman golfer of all time. The chronicle of her life is fascinating and the self-probing of her psyche is one of the most revealing looks at any champion's thought process. The male and female participants in her tale, are for the most part all noted golfers and the book frequently offers anecdotes about and portraits of these personalities. While the historical facts and stories of her triumphs are engaging, Wethered ... writes intelligently about the mechanics of the swing in the section Technical Golf, devoting one-third of the book to instruction. Finally, this is a worthwhile book about women’s golf in general, its origins, rise and ultimate acceptance on the world stage.
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