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Welcome to the 40th Curtis Cup Match Dear Fellow Golf Enthusiasts, Once again the time-honored tradition of the eight best female amateurs from the United States of America versus those from Great Britain and Ireland is upon us. On behalf of the Membership of Quaker Ridge Golf Club, we welcome the players, their families, the United States Golf Association, The Royal & Ancient Golfers of St. Andrews, their supporters, and golfers from the Metropolitan area and beyond. Quaker Ridge Golf Club is honored to host this premier golf match. This will be the second USGA match held at our club, the first being The Walker Cup in 1997. Our classic A. W. Tillinghast-designed course is a collection of 18 distinct holes worthy of a national championship. It is a source of pride to give back to golf by hosting these international matches. We want to thank our many volunteers for making this competition possible. Thanks also to the Metropolitan Golf Association Foundation for being our charitable partner. The donations of our member-supporters in the Tillinghast Club and businesses who gave money or in-kind services are listed in this program. We are truly grateful for your generosity. Finally, thanks to our wonderful, dedicated staff who have worked tirelessly for the last 24 months preparing the course and the Club for this match. You are the best. All our members hope you enjoy watching these talented teams play quality golf for their countries. The Curtis Cup Match promotes friendly rivalry among these international golfers. We anticipate that as spectators you will also have the opportunity to make international friendships. Thank you for coming to celebrate women’s amateur golf at its highest level.
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Bunkers left, bunkers across, and bunkers right are the distinctive features characterizing the par-five 14th hole at Quaker Ridge.
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Dear Friends: It is a pleasure to send greetings and words of welcome to everyone attending the 2018 Curtis Cup Match here in Westchester County. Since its establishment in 1916, the beautiful Quaker Ridge Golf Club has gained a reputation as one of the most highly regarded and respected courses in the country. Designed by famed architect A. W. Tillinghast, Quaker Ridge is frequently named among the most challenging golf courses in the Metropolitan New York area. This year Quaker Ridge is honored to have been selected as the host club for the 40th competition of the prestigious Curtis Cup. The Curtis Cup is a biennial championship for women amateur golfers played between the USA Team and the Great Britain and Ireland Team. Much time and energy goes into organizing an international sporting event of this magnitude, and, on behalf of all New Yorkers, I commend everyone affiliated with the Curtis Cup, Quaker Ridge Golf Club, the USGA and The R&A, and look forward to the tremendous success of this Match. Best of luck to Captain Virginia Derby Grimes and the USA Team and to Captain Elaine Farquharson-Black and Great Britain and Ireland Team for some exciting play and extraordinary memories made in the Empire State. With warmest regards and best wishes for a wonderful stay in the Hudson Valley.
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Dear Friends, Welcome to the 40th Curtis Cup Match at Quaker Ridge Golf Club and thank you for joining us for this prestigious biennial team event that celebrates amateur golf among the best female players from the USA and Great Britain and Ireland. We’re grateful you have chosen to spend your time with us this week as a new chapter in golf history unfolds. We could not bring this premier event to the greater New York community without our partnership with The R&A and the exemplary work of everyone here at Quaker Ridge. I hope you join me in thanking them for their herculean efforts. The 2018 USGA championship season promises to be a memorable one. Shinnecock Hills, the only course to host a U.S. Open in three different centuries, welcomes us next week for the 118th edition. This is also the inaugural year of the U.S. Senior Women’s Open, contested at Chicago Golf Club, one of the USGA’s five founding clubs. The 118th U.S. Amateur is at one of the most iconic courses in the world: Pebble Beach, a year before our return trip next June for the 119th U.S. Open. Our 14 championships encompass all regions of the country and we are excited to contest four championships at first-time host sites. We wish the best of luck to the Curtis Cup competitors for both the USA and Great Britain and Ireland. They have worked hard to earn the opportunity to compete in this life-changing event. Their journey inspires us all. The camaraderie shared among teammates and everyone involved is infectious and fun. We hope you, too, create lasting memories among friends and family this week. Thank you for your support and your love of the game.
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MIKE DAVIS CEO, USGA
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Dear Friends, On behalf of the Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team and all of us at The R&A, I would like to express our sincere gratitude to the United States Golf Association and Quaker Ridge Golf Club for hosting the event at such a prestigious venue. The staging of this year’s match marks 21 years since the 36th Walker Cup Match took place here at A.W. Tillinghast’s “treasure” and we are delighted to return. There is no greater honour for an amateur golfer than to play for your country and the players of both teams deserve huge credit for achieving selection for this historic match. Golfers from Great Britain and Ireland are fortunate to have an opportunity to compete every year, either against the Continent of Europe for the Vagliano Trophy or against the United States for the Curtis Cup. These are memorable occasions which rightly enjoy a special place in golf’s pantheon of great championships and matches. Although Great Britain and Ireland have won only eight of the 39 Curtis Cup matches, we have won two of the last three and look forward to defending the Cup in America. The Curtis Cup match is above all about friendly rivalry, playing in a true sporting spirit and forging strong links between those who, as players or officials, will remain custodians of the sport and its great traditions. Best wishes to the members of both teams for what promises to be a highly enjoyable Curtis Cup match. Sincerely,
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MARTIN SLUMBERS Chief Executive, The R&A
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Byron Nelson, then an assistant professional at The Ridgewood Country Club, putting on the ninth green during the 1936 Met Open.
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R U LY G R EAT G O LF C LU B S start with a series of well-defined principles, a group of
compatible people, and a strong, determined leader —— often with a highly autocratic streak —— to carry out the vision.
Very quietly, Quaker Ridge Golf Club provided one of
its meteoritic rise in popularity soon after caddie Francis
the earliest examples of this template, leading the way for
Ouimet’s momentous U.S. Open playoff victory at The
numerous top-notch golf clubs to come.
Country Club in Brookline, Mass., in 1913. Golf attracted a
Founded in 1916 by a tight group of successful New
series of larger-than-life characters who helped shape the
Yorkers, Quaker Ridge chose New York City businessman
game and its playing fields. Tillinghast, with his waxed
William Rice Hochster, one of the club’s founding mem-
handlebar mustache and Beau Brummell flamboyance, led
bers, to be its first president. Purchasing an existing nine-
the way along with Charles Blair Macdonald, Dr. Alister
hole course in the Quaker Ridge section of Scarsdale, N.Y.,
MacKenzie and Donald Ross, the four pillars of what has
that had recently gone out of
been called The Golden Age of
business, the organizing group
Golf Architecture.
consisted of 28 members. By
Tillinghast’s design philos-
the first general meeting, there
ophy stressed a natural look,
were 92 members, nearly half
with course routing and hole
of the 200 limit set in the club’s
designs that gracefully fit each
bylaws. The initiation fee was a
property, requiring strategic
hefty $100, with annual dues of
thinking on every hole and test-
$100. As with most golf clubs
ing every club in the bag. His
of the day, Quaker Ridge was
bunkering style is highly orig-
originally limited to men, but it
inal — some say gorgeous — and
quickly admitted its first female
is held up as the paragon of
member and actively encour-
strategic design to this very
aged mixed play. Hochster was an inspired choice as president, as he set the overall tenor for the club going forward and made two key decisions that have served the club well for all of its more than 100 years of existence. RIGHT: THE AMERICAN GOLFER; OPPOSITE: USGA
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day. His designs drew on his study under Old Tom Morris at St. Andrews and his numerous trips around Scotland, yet had a fresh new American flavor to them. Quaker Ridge, “Tillie’s” 20th or so design, proved to be the very first of his truly great golf courses, which later
The first of these decisions was to hire an up-and-com-
included the East and West courses at across-the-street neigh-
ing golf course architect from New York and Philadelphia,
bor Winged Foot, the Upper and Lower courses at Baltusrol
one A.W. Tillinghast Jr., to design the original 18 holes.
in New Jersey, the Black and Red courses at Bethpage State
American golf was then still in its infancy, but it started
Park on Long Island, and the 27 holes at The Ridgewood
Above: The one-room schoolhouse from the late 1800s still stands at the entrance to Quaker Ridge; it is used as a caddie house today. Opposite: A.W. Tillinghast, designer of the Quaker Ridge golf course, holding his plans for Davis Shores Country Club on its St. Augustine grounds in 1926.
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the first golfer to complete the career grand slam of the
Opens, U.S. Amateurs, U.S. Women’s Opens and U.S.
Masters, the U.S. Open, the Open Championship and the
Senior Opens. Construction began on the original 18-hole
PGA Championship.
course at Quaker Ridge in 1916 and it opened to great
Hochster’s second impactful decision was to hire the
acclaim in 1918. In 1924, Hochster arranged for the pur-
Farrell bothers — first older brother Jimmy in 1919, and
chase of an additional 28 acres adjacent to the property
then Johnny in 1920 — as co-head golf professionals. At
and brought Tillinghast back to polish his gem. The course
just 18 years of age, Johnny was proving to be one of the
that the 2018 Curtis Cup will be played on, although some-
finest golfers in country. By the late 1920s, he was the
what longer today to accommodate the greater length of
most dominant professional in the country, defeating Bob
the modern game, is virtually identical to Tillinghast’s
Jones — then at the very height of his powers — in a 36-hole
final 1924 design from approximately the 80-yard mark in
playoff for the 1928 U.S. Open Championship at Olym-
on every hole. The reconfigured course was opened for
pia Fields just outside Chicago. Upon his return to New
play with the 1928 Met PGA Championship; it was won by
York, Farrell was hailed with a celebration at Quaker Ridge
the defending champion Gene Sarazen, who later became
that featured 150 uniformed caddies marching two by two
Above: A vintage cartoon depicting features and fixtures at Quaker Ridge, created in 1927 by Frank W. Hopkins, a commercial and newspaper cartoonist who frequently drew golf-related material. Opposite: Johnny Farrell (right) and Bobby Jones at the 1928 U.S. Open at Olympia Fields Country Club. Farrell defeated Jones in a 36-hole playoff to win the championship. 14
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THE HOCHSTER MEMORIAL TOURNAMENT, FIRST HELD IN 1934, HAS A DISTINGUISHED LIST OF WINNERS INCLUDING SUCH NATIONAL CHAMPIONS AS JESS SWEETSER, WILLIE TURNESA, DOUG FORD, DICK SIDEROWF, KEN BAKST AND GEORGE ZAHRINGER III.
player in his own right, was the head professional at nearby Stanwich for many years. Farrell was more than just a one-trick wonder, dominating the professional ranks over the next several years, playing on multiple U.S. Ryder Cup teams along with his contemporaries Sarazen and Walter Hagen, and setting a record for consecutive professional victories that lasted for many years. Without a doubt, Johnny Farrell brought great renown to the club in its early years. Hochster presided over the Club with an iron fist for its first 16 years, putting his indelible stamp upon it. He imbued the membership with a sense of propriety and of all that was right and good with the old game. These laudable down the first fairway led by a bag-
the reverence the members have for golf
piper. Farrell’s mother, brother Jimmy
and the way they comport themselves
(who was credited with fashioning his
both on the course and at the club.
brother’s swing), Hochster and Johnny
After Hochster passed away in 1933,
escorted the coveted U.S. Open Trophy
the club established an annual 36-hole
to the clubhouse. Approaching the club-
amateur tournament in appreciation of
house the members and caddies sang a
his contributions to Quaker Ridge. The
version of the song “When Johnny
Hochster Memorial Tournament, first
Comes Marching Home” with lyrics that
held in 1934, is recognized as one of the
the caddie master had written for the
finest amateur events in the country, and
occasion. At the testimonial dinner that
has been won by such national cham-
followed, Farrell, in an expression of
pions as Jess Sweetser, Willie Turnesa,
the devotion and appreciation he felt
Doug Ford, Dick Siderowf, Ken Bakst
toward the club, presented the trophy
and George Zahringer III. The event is
to be displayed in the clubhouse for the next year. Such
rightfully cherished by the club, and after its conclusion
was his feeling of closeness to Hochster that Farrell named
the members can’t wait to test their abilities against the
his first son after him several years later. Billy, a very fine
“Hochster” hole locations on the slick greens.
Top: Quaker Ridge charter member Nathan Straus, owner of Macy’s and founder of Abraham & Straus, taking a lesson from Johnny Farrell. Above: Jimmy Farrell, Johnny’s older brother, was hired by Quaker Ridge in 1919 and remained there until his death in 1939. 16
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traits continue at Quaker Ridge today in
Nevertheless,
Quaker
Ridge
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been a very private club, never seeking the notoriety that a heavily attended national championship such as a U.S. Open or a PGA Championship would bring. But it has always recognized its responsibilities to the game — and especially to golf in the Met Area — by hosting significant events when feasible. An early example is the 1936 Metropolitan Open, then considered the fourth-most important golf tournament in the country after the U.S. Open, the PGA Championship and the Western Open. The Augusta National Invitation Tournament, not yet called “the Masters,” was only three years old at the time. That Met Open was the first big golf event won by an up-and-coming young Texan, Byron Nelson, an assistant pro at another fine Tillinghast course not far away, The Ridgewood Country Club in Paramus, New Jersey. Never over par in his winning four-round total of 5-under 283, Nelson defeated Craig Wood, Paul Runyan, Henry Picard, Willie Macfarlane and Gene Sarazen – who all had either won or would go on to win major championships – in a victory that set him on his path to one of the finest careers ever on the PGA Tour. Nelson went on to amass 52 wins
founding member; he was also a philanthropist who served
in just 11 years on Tour, including 11 consecutive victories
as Parks and Health Commissioner for New York City
during his incredible 18-win year of 1945.
and advocated for pasteurized milk as a way to prevent
Nelson considered the Met Open at Quaker Ridge the
childhood diseases. Other member-entrepreneurs who
big breakthrough that kick-started his career. He always
established major American retail empires include Frank-
remembered the club quite fondly, venturing to Quaker
lin Simon, Alfred Bloomingdale and Louis Gimbel. The
Ridge on the 50th anniversary of his Met Open win in
old adage, “Does Macy’s tell Gimbels?” was answered at
1986 and again during the week of the PGA Champion-
Quaker with, “Of course, they play golf together.” Leaders
ship at Winged Foot in 1997, even staying with a Quaker
in the financial, medical and legal fields also abounded, but
Ridge member and visiting the club several times.
perhaps the most famous member was George Gershwin,
Quaker Ridge has had many prominent members over
who would often entertain after dinner on Saturday nights,
the years. Nathan Straus, one of two brothers who pur-
playing the piano and leading a singalong of his composi-
chased Macy’s department store and moved it to Herald
tions with the members.
Square (and later founded A&S department stores) was a
Significantly, a Quaker Ridge member played a major role
Composer George Gershwin would often entertain his fellow Quaker Ridge members with impromptu singalongs on Saturday nights.
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in the establishment of one of the most important caddie scholarship programs in the country. Originally known as the Reinach-Turnesa Scholarship Fund, and now the Westchester Caddie Scholarship Fund, it was founded by longtime Quaker Ridge member Udo Reinach and his good friend, the great amateur champion Willie Turnesa. It has provided more than $20 million in college scholarships to approximately 3,000 students since 1956. No qualified student with financial need has ever been turned Westchester County, Quaker Ridge has consistently been
Harris and his fellow lifelong amateur Buddy Marucci, the
one of the top handful of givers to the fund each year.
USA Team bettered the Great Britain and Ireland Team,
Mindful of the club’s historic desire to actively support
18-6, scoring 11 points in the singles and seven points in
the game, Quaker Ridge hosted the 36th Walker Cup
foursomes. Harris won both of his singles and foursomes
Match in 1997. Led by American amateur stalwart John
matches to become the top scorer in Walker Cup history,
Top: Udo Reinach and Willie Turnesa, founders of what is now the Westchester Golf Association Caddie Scholarship Fund. Above: The victorious 1997 USA Walker Cup Team—Standing (left to right): Steve Scott, Duke Delcher, Chris Wollman, Joel Kribel, A. Downing Gray (captain), Randy Leen, Brad Elder, Jason Gore. Lower row (left to right): John Harris, Jerry Courville Jr., George “Buddy” Marucci Jr.
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away from the fund. Among all of the supporting clubs in
surpassing Bob Jones’s longstanding record. Appearing on
For that, the members of the club are immensely proud as
the GB&I Team was a fresh-faced 17-year-old Justin Rose, the
we continue to live up to the principles established over
youngest Walker Cup competitor, who finished with a 2-2-0
100 years ago of service to golf and its community. With
record; less than a year later he was in contention down the
the past as its guide, Quaker Ridge looks forward to host-
stretch at the Open Championship. He would eventually go
ing the 40th Curtis Cup Match.
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on to win the 2013 U.S. Open, star in four Ryder Cups, and capture an Olympic Gold Medal in Rio in 2016.
Martin Davis, a member of Quaker Ridge for 36 years, has writ-
With the 2018 Curtis Cup, Quaker Ridge will become
ten, edited or published more than 36 books about golf. A noted
only the third American golf club to host both the Walker
golf historian, he has appeared regularly on Golf Channel and the
Cup and the Curtis Cup, joining Merion Golf Club in Ard-
lead-in weekend shows to the Masters broadcast on CBS, and has
more, Pa., and Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn.
a regular radio show on SiriusXM Radio.
The ninth green and clubhouse today.
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The first, in 1978, was contested at The Apawamis Club in Rye, N.Y., where the USA Team defeated Great Britain and Ireland, 12-6. The second, in 1990, took place at
Somerset Hills Country Club in Bernardsville, N.J., and resulted in another USA victory, this time by a resounding 14-4 margin. A quick glance suggests these events were comfortable victories for the USA. But both had their share of intrigue and high hopes for the visiting side before the Americans gained control. BACKGROUND PHOTO: USGA
The Apawamis Club is located just seven miles from the site of this year’s Match: Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y. Apawamis was designed in the early 1900s by Willie Dunn, best known for his work at Shinnecock Hills, the site of next week’s U.S. Open. It was renovated (some would say restored) in 2001-2002 by Gil Hanse. Apawamis hosted the 1911 U.S. Amateur championship, the first in which the final match required extra holes to determine a winner — Harold H. Hilton defeated Fred Herreshoff.
A quick glance suggests these events were comfortable victories for the USA. But both had their share of intrigue and high hopes for the visiting side before the Americans gained control. The Apawamis Club is located just seven miles from Members of the USA Curtis Cup Team, left, and the GB&I Team in Scarsdale, N.Y. Apawamis during was designed in ceremonies the early the opening at The Apawamis Club, 1978. 1900s by Willie Dunn, best known for his work at Shin-
the site of this year’s Match: Quaker Ridge Golf Club
necock Hills, the site of next week’s U.S. Open. It was renovated (some would say restored) in 2001-2002 by Gil
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role as keeping the team loose, so there was no panic after one losing session.
had never lost on home soil. The team was led by Beth
“They are all darling girls. I never pressured them and
Daniel, who had captured the 1975 and 1977 U.S. Wom-
hoped that I was able to take some pressure off,” Wilson
en’s Amateur titles and would go on to win 33 times on the
said later that week of her lunchtime talk. “I told them not
LPGA Tour. She had been part of the formidable 1976 team
to try so hard, it changes the swing; just go out and play
that is among the best ever, with Daniel joined by Carol
your game.”
Semple, who would go on to win seven USGA champion-
They did just that, starting with Daniel, who won the
ships; Nancy Lopez (a World Golf Hall of Fame member);
first four holes of her afternoon singles match on the way
Donna Horton (who would win the U.S. Women’s Amateur
to a 5-and-4 victory. The USA Team won four of the
months later); and Debbie Massey,
six singles matches and halved
who would win three LPGA events
another to take a 5-4 lead after the
and consecutive Women’s British
first day.
Opens in 1980 and 1981.
While the first day was played
The latter three had turned
in frequent showers, the second
pro by 1978, leaving Daniel as the
saw almost continual rain. Wilson
face of the team; she attended a
kept together her two losing four-
special kickoff event at Apawamis
somes teams from the previous
about a month before the match.
morning, including Daniel and
“It was an opportunity to spend
Goldsmith, and they justified her
some time with club members,
faith by both posting 1-up victo-
learn the history of the club and
ries in a 3-0 sweep. There wasn’t
get advice on how to play it, which
a lot of suspense in the final
was very helpful,” Daniel recalled.
singles session, especially after
Those club members included two
Daniel defeated Ireland’s Mary
recent USA Curtis Cup captains:
McKenna, 2 and 1, in the first
Jean Ashley Crawford (1972) and
match. That quickly assured no
Sis Choate (1974).
worse than a tie, and Patricia
The GB&I side came in feeling pretty good about its
Cornett provided the clinching point with a 3-and-2
chances, with players who had more international experi-
victory over Carole Caldwell. The final margin was six
ence than on its past teams. And justifiably so, based on the
points, but the overall score could have swung easily.
results of the first morning foursomes session, in which it
Seven matches went to the 18th hole over the course of the
took a 2 ½ – ½ lead.
two days, with the USA earning three wins and four halves
“In 1976, our games matched up really well and it was
in those close calls.
easier to make foursomes teams,” said Daniel. “In those
“The thing I remember most is the camaraderie. We’re
days, I was considered a very long hitter but wild off the tee.
friends to this day because of the things we shared and
In 1978, I was paired with Brenda Goldsmith, who was short
the things we shared about ourselves,” said Daniel. “I
and straight, and we didn’t team well at all in alternate shot.”
don’t remember specific things about my matches, but I
The USA captain, Helen Sigel Wilson, saw her main
remember after one of my matches was done I went out
Beth Daniel, a two-time member of the USA Curtis Cup Team, in action during the 1978 Match.
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THE CAMARADERIE EXTENDED ACROSS TEAM LINES, AS PLAYERS FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE ATLANTIC GOT TO KNOW EACH OTHER IN FRIENDLY COMPETITION.
and watched Judy Oliver and saw her make a long putt that
Cup in 1986 and 1988 after the USA had won the previous
was a turning point in her match.”
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The camaraderie extended across team lines, as players
“It was for me,” said Semple Thompson, who was a
from both sides of the Atlantic got to know each other in
member of those two losing teams. “I did not like losing
friendly competition.
one bit. We lost sort of badly in 1988 [11-7]. I was ready
“To this day, one of my favorite people in the whole
to win.”
wide world is Mary McKenna, who
Adding to the revenge factor
was on the 1976 and 1978 GB&I
was the fact that the Ryder Cup,
Teams,” said Daniel. “We still stay
the men’s equivalent of the Cur-
in touch.”
tis Cup, also resided on the other
An example of the spirit of
side of the Atlantic.
good humor with which the teams
Somerset Hills, like Quaker
approached the event came during
Ridge, is a course designed by
the concluding dinner. As Golf
A.W. Tillinghast that is frequently
World reported, “Teams tradition-
ranked among the country’s finest.
ally exchange mementos at such
It’s less than eight miles from the
functions, but the silver baubles the
USGA headquarters in Liberty
Yanks were to give had not arrived.
Corner, N.J., and so offers even
Not to worry. Captain Wilson
more of a “home field” feel than
would not allow the visitors to go
the average American course.
away empty-handed, so she called
The
USA
Team
featured
each girl to the dais and handed
two players from the Met Area:
out: coffee cups, silverware, flowers
Karen Noble, of Brookside, N.J.,
on the table.”
and Margaret Platt, of Hastings-
A similar air of good sportsmanship prevailed a dozen years later at the second Curtis Cup in the Met Area. “Leslie Shannon [of the USA] and Jill Thornhill [Great Britain and Ireland] were good friends as captains. I think we
on-Hudson, N.Y. Noble was practically playing in her own backyard; she had competed several times at Somerset Hills before, including a victory in the 1988 Women’s Metropolitan Match Play.
had a very close relationship with the opposition,” recalled
“It was really a dream come true,” said Noble, who was
Carol Semple Thompson, who in 1990 at Somerset Hills
runner-up in the 1988 U.S. Women’s Amateur to Pearl Sinn.
was playing in her sixth of what would eventually become a
“I had set making the team as a goal when Somerset Hills
record 12 Curtis Cups. “I played against Vicki Thomas
was announced as the site [in 1986], even though I wasn’t
twice that week and she became a friend.”
very good back then. To see all that hard work pay off was
The genial relations continued despite a change in the competitive dynamics: Great Britain and Ireland won the
really amazing.” Noble and Platt had roomed together in the spring
Karen Noble during the 1990 Curtis Cup Match at Somerset Hills Country Club.
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of 1990 when both were working in Florida pro shops,
me read the putt,” Noble remembered. “I was able to make
having remained amateurs after college careers at Wake
it to win the match, which was just crazy. It was everything
Forest and Auburn, respectively, so they could com-
you dream about.”
pete in the Curtis Cup. Both turned pro in late 1990 and
The kicker to the story is that Lambert, now Catriona
played on the LPGA Tour. They are now teaching pros
Matthew, has gone on to an outstanding LPGA career,
at New Jersey clubs, Noble at Fairmount and Platt-Klaus
including a major title at the 2009 Ricoh Women’s British
at Ridgewood.
Open.
The friends were paired in the morning foursomes
The 1990 USA Team had an extraordinary blend of pre-
competition each of the two days of the Curtis Cup. Unfortun-
cocious youth and savvy experience. The young phenoms
ately, they lost both matches. Noble made up for it in story-
were 17-year-old Vicki Goetze and 18-year-old Brandie
book fashion in the first day’s afternoon singles. Two down
Burton. The previous summer, Goetze defeated Burton in
with four holes to play against Catriona Lambert, Noble won
the final of the U.S. Women’s Amateur just a week after
the 15th and 16th to get back to all square, and on the par-4
Burton defeated Goetze in the semifinals of the U.S. Girls’
18th she had a birdie putt from 20 feet to win the match.
Junior.
“It was one of the late matches, so most of my team-
On the other side of the spectrum were 41-year-
mates were there. The captain came onto the green to help
old Semple Thompson, the 1973 U.S. Women’s Amateur
The winning 1990 USA Curtis Cup Team. Standing (left to right): Robin Weiss, Brandie Burton, Margaret Platt, Katie Peterson; front row (left to right): Carol Semple Thompson, Karen Noble, Leslie Shannon (captain), Vicki Goetze, Anne Sander. 24
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champion, and 52-year-old Anne Sander, a three-time U.S.
first day’s singles, to lead 8-4 heading into the final session.
Women’s Amateur champion playing in her eighth and
Shannon sent out Goetze and Burton in the first two singles
final Curtis Cup (her first was in 1958).
matches, and they scored a pair of 4-and-3 victories over
“We would have been thought of as being good
GB&I’s two best players, Helen Dobson and Lambert, to
advisors,” said Semple Thompson. “But Brandie and Vicki
clinch the Cup. The USA didn’t stop there, as the American
were such good players they weren’t looking for specific
side swept all six singles matches, the first time that had ever
advice from the old people.”
happened, for the final 14-4 margin.
In any case, Shannon’s decision to pair Goetze and
“It was a little shocking that we won by so many points.
Sander in foursomes proved brilliant as they meshed
Our team played really well,” said Noble. Besides the unique
nicely and won both of their matches.
thrill of getting to play so close to home, Noble echoed
A large crowd of around 3,000 braved a heat wave to
the universal sentiment about her Curtis Cup experience:
attend the Match. Many of the spectators wore their alle-
“It’s fun to play in a team atmosphere in golf, especially to
giance proudly: British fans flew the Union Jack from their
play for your country.”
straw hats, and Goetze’s mother made up shirts for the players’ moms with a star-spangled design. The USA Team doubled the score in each of the first three sessions: 2-1 in both of the foursomes, and 4-2 in the
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CURTIS CUP
Memories No matter what they go on to accomplish in golf, those who competed in the Curtis Cup Match cherish the memories of their experiences.
Tom Mackin asked some of the biggest stars of the LPGA Tour and Ladies European Tour — and one of the most decorated amateurs of all time — to share their recollections. T O M
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Belle McCorkindale Robertson, Captain of the GB&I Team, takes a photo of the 1976 USA Curtis Cup Team. Front row (left to right): Donna H. White, Nancy Syms, Barbara McIntire, Beth Daniel, Nancy Lopez. Back row (left to right): Carol Semple Thompson, Deborah Massey, Cynthia Hill, Barbara Barrow.
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CAROL SEMPLE THOMPSON played on a record 12 USA
band got me a replica of the Curtis Cup with the years I
Curtis Cup Teams between 1974 and 2002, and served as
was on the team as well as the years I was Captain on the
captain of winning USA Teams in 2006 and 2008.
base of it. It’s smaller than the real one, but it’s in a lovely
In my first Curtis Cup, we played at San Francisco Golf
little case on a bookshelf in our living room. I actually
Club and I remember the weather being awful. It was
polish it, amazingly enough, because I can’t say that
foggy and cold, which was great for the Brits because
about a lot of other stuff. But that means a lot to me.
they’re kind of used to it. I was so nervous that first time, it was terrible. I didn’t really play well. The idea of represent-
2010 U.S. Open champion PAULA CREAMER played on the
ing my country was just too exciting and fearsome. These
winning USA Team in 2004 at Formby Golf Club.
days, everyone is so tuned into the
Formby was such an awesome
positive self-talk and visualization
golf course, with the railroad tracks
that they put it in a positive way.
right alongside the first hole, and
It’s not, I hope I can hit a good shot.
it was the first time I actually saw
It’s, I’m going to hit a good shot. These
people come out with picnic
kids playing only see the positive.
blankets and having champagne. I
All my life, I have tried to make
thought it was one of the coolest
myself concentrate on the positive
things, being able to perform in
aspects of things. That’s been a life-
front of such a different crowd. On the first hole, Jane [Park] hit
time learning experience. In 2002, we played at Fox
our tee shot and put me underneath a
Chapel Golf Club in Pittsburgh, so
tree. We made triple bogey on our
I was the local old bag. I was in my
first hole of the Curtis Cup. I was
50s and everybody else averaged
looking at her and she was looking
around 20. Most of the players on
at me, and I was like: “Could you
the USA Team had long blonde
please not do that? Let’s just try to
hair and wore ponytails. I had short-
hit it in the fairway.” We always laugh about that, even now. When
er brown hair, so the GB&I team decided I needed to look blonde and they gave me a blonde wig.
Paula Creamer during singles play at the 2004 Curtis Cup Match.
we lost that match, Jane and I said we were going to go out and win
I wore it one time briefly as a spectator when I wasn’t play-
as many points as we could to try and make up for that.
ing. That last day, I was playing my match and we needed
[Creamer won both her singles matches, and Park won
one more point to tie and retain the Cup. I did knock in
one of two.]
a long putt on the last hole to win [defeating Vikki Laing
I would say the top five most nervous moments in
of Scotland, 1-up] which gave us that one point. The next
my career have happened on the first tee when you’re
day there was a tabloid somewhere in Great Britain that
representing your country. Even when you’re not hitting
ran a headline, “Old Dog Does the Trick.”
the shot, it doesn’t even matter, you’re still so nervous.
The Curtis Cup is near and dear to my heart. My hus-
There’s just something about hearing, “Paula Creamer,
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It was my first time being on a team, on foreign soil, and having my name called and then seeing the flag go up. It was pretty moving. I definitely had tears in my eyes. Martha [Kirouac] was great as our captain. She had a lot of wise words and just made us feel comfortable. Me being so young, she put me with Jane Park as my roommate. That was a lot of fun. The most memorable thing was we didn’t win a single point in the morning [of the first day]. And then we just got really pissed and killed it in the singles [winning five of six]. I felt really confident in match
representing the United States of America,” rather than just
play. I was kind of in my comfort zone being out there
“Paula Creamer from Pleasanton, California.” I come from
by myself.
a military family and we’re very patriotic, so seeing that flag
Jane was awesome. And I was really close with Paula
and knowing you’re representing it, and wearing the same
during that week. We had rooms across the hall, so Jane
uniform as the whole team, it’s very surreal and a very
and I would go over to Paula’s room all the time. We would
humbling experience.”
watch “America’s Next Top Model” and then we started
2014 U.S. Open champion MICHELLE WIE played on the
we won, we pulled an all-nighter playing that card game.
winning USA Team in 2004 at Formby Golf Club.
We definitely got delirious at around 4 a.m.
The Curtis Cup was really the first time I was overseas.
The Curtis Cup is a really special moment for me, being
I remember we had these local caddies assigned to us and
the youngest there and all the memories of just being over-
they were great, but I wasn’t accustomed to the accent. In
seas, going to gala dinners and forging relationships that
a practice round, my caddie was trying to say a shot was
week. I see old teammates like Brittany (Lang), Jane and
213 yards, and I heard it as 230. I took a 3-wood and saw
Paula on Tour now, so we always talk about Curtis Cup.
it just fly over the green. After that, he gave the numbers
Solheim [Cup] is really special as well, but there’s some-
really slowly to me.
thing about the Curtis Cup.
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playing the card game B.S. We got really competitive. After
JESSICA KORDA and LEXI THOMPSON played on the
and we didn’t have much experience playing over there.
winning USA Team in 2010 at Essex Country Club in Man-
It was just all a bit too much for us with the speed of the
chester-by-the-Sea, Mass. [Korda, 17, and Thompson, 15,
greens [at Somerset Hills in New Jersey]. We were up against
were paired in the second foursomes match on the first
people like Vicki Goetze and Brandie Burton, who were the
morning. They recalled the moment in a video for the USGA.]
top college amateurs, so they just overpowered us [the U.S.
Thompson: One funny story is, I think I was playing with
won 14-4]. In 1992 at Royal Liverpool, the bulk of our team
Jessica, and it was alternate shot. We get up on the first hole
was more experienced and back on familiar soil with links
and I’m like, “Jessica, you can take the first tee shot, I’ll hit
golf. We had all played in various competitions on that course,
from the fairway [laughs] — you can take the nerves on the
so we knew it well. That, plus the experience from 1990, just
first tee, I’ll be up in the fairway waiting for you.”
helped us cope with the pressure [GB&I won 10-8].
Korda: I said, “What do you mean
In 1994 at The Honors Course
you don’t want to hit first? I don’t
in Tennessee, we had four Scots on
want to hit first!” She’s like, “Well, I
our side [Matthew, Janice Moodie,
don’t want to hit first.” I said, “What
Mhairi McKay and Myra McKin-
are we going to do?” She said,
lay], and we had all grown up play-
“You’re hitting first.” Alright, fine,
ing together. At that point, I was at
I’ll hit first, and she’s like walking
the top of the amateur game, having
down to the fairway already. And I
won the British Ladies and Scottish
was like, Um, I don’t know, it was
Women’s Amateurs and a couple of
such a nerve-wracking moment.
events in Europe. In the singles, I
You’re standing on that tee box and
played Emilee Klein, who was the
you’ve got all these people. Great
top American amateur at the time. I
Britain and Ireland goes first and
played with Janice in the foursomes.
then we tee off. And to watch them
We were just playing well [Matthew
hit it down the center of the fairway,
went 3-0-1, Moodie 2-1-1]. Janice
and then I have to go — and I’m just
played Carol Semple Thompson in
looking at Lexi, like, I hate you so
the last singles match and I remem-
much. Why am I the one having to do
ber watching it come down to the
this? But I actually ended up strip-
18th hole. I had finished my game
ing it down the middle of the fair-
against Emilee earlier. Janice was
way. And I think we won the first
always a steely competitor and in a
hole. But definitely the first hole is where you need to take
team format like that, it’s great fun to watch. [Moodie won
a really deep breath and just try and zone everything out
the match, 2-up, clinching a 9-9 draw that enabled GB&I
and just try and hit the ball down the fairway.
to retain the Cup.] When you play in a Curtis Cup, at that point in your
2009 Women’s British Open champion CATRIONA MATTHEW
career that’s the pinnacle. I’ve been on teams that have
played for Great Britain and Ireland Teams in 1990, 1992 and 1994.
won, drawn and lost, so I had a bit of everything. But it’s
In 1990, we had quite a young team. At that time,
the friendships you make during it. I still keep in touch with
European golfers didn’t really go to college in the States,
members from my teams, including the ones who didn’t
Catriona Matthew at the 1994 Curtis Cup.
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turn pro. It’s always nice to see familiar faces from the
3-foot putt to halve the hole and I made her putt it. I wish I
Curtis Cups.
had been a bigger person at that time because she deserved better. Getting to know her as a player and a person has made
Britain and Ireland in 1984 at Muirfield in Scotland.
me a better person in many ways. It’s a cool club to be in as one of the people who have
I remember that playing with Mary McKenna in the four-
played in the Curtis Cup. It’s high-level golf in a nice, sort of
somes that year was terrifying as she really was the big gun in
naïve manner. You haven’t been jaded by professionalism
those days. [McKenna was on the eighth of her nine GB&I
yet. It’s definitely a goal for amateurs in Great Britain and
Curtis Cup Teams, and also won twice as captain.] Playing
Ireland.
at Muirfield was a real treat. I was there watching at the final
At the time, you’re playing in it, all you care about is
green on the last day when Penny
winning the points. But when you
[Grice] missed a 4-foot putt that, if
look back on it you realize what a
it had gone in, would have resulted
wonderful experience it was. [At]
in a 9-9 draw. It was hard to watch
Minikahda all of my family came
as she was a good friend [at the time
out, my sister, my mum and my
the 9 ½ – 8 ½ USA win was the clos-
dad. I think more than anything
est finish since 1958]. Still, it was just
else, I loved it for them because
fun for me and no pressure. We had
they were able to thoroughly enjoy
a big party afterward and as far as
everything about it. They’d given
I can remember we were over it
up so much for me to play golf.
very quickly. Playing in the Curtis
It was nice for them to get a little
Cup was the biggest honor and most
reward back, in some respects. I
significant thing that I’d done to that
still have my blazers that I wore for
point. For a British amateur, it’s the
the opening and have all the pins
pinnacle. I loved every minute of
and badges we were given in my
it and it ranks up there for fun, the
trophy case.
same as playing in a Solheim Cup. Two-time LPGA Tour winner JANICE MOODIE played for 2004 Women’s British Open champion KAREN STUPPLES played for Great Britain and Ireland in 1996 and 1998.
Great Britain and Ireland in 1994 and 1996.
In 1994 I was 21 and going to school in the U.S. [at San
When we won the Curtis Cup in 1996 at Killarney in
Jose State University], so I knew quite a few of the girls on
Ireland, I remember all of us piling onto a golf cart and driv-
the U.S. Team because of college golf, but also I was there
ing down the 18th fairway. There were probably at least 10
to play for my team. Some people questioned how I could
of us, players, caddies and family. It was really very cool.
play against the U.S., and I just thought, this is what we did
Then at Minikahda in 1998, I played a singles match against
our whole life. I played for Scotland against England. Then
Carol Semple Thompson and you couldn’t ask for a more
I’d play for Great Britain with England against European
classy opponent. I remember we got to the 18th hole and it
countries. One minute they’re the enemy, and the next min-
was insignificant in the overall competition what the result of
ute they’re your friends. I had these girls in Tennessee asking
our match would be [Stupples won, 1-up]; Carol had about a
me, “Do you feel as though you’re in between countries?”
Twenty-year-old Laura Davies at the Curtis Cup Match in 1984.
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1987 U.S. Open champion LAURA DAVIES played for Great
I said, “Absolutely not. I’m Scottish, I’m playing for Great Britain and I’m here to beat you guys.” My match against Carol Semple Thompson that year decided the whole thing. My tee shot on 18, I swear it ended up almost in the divot from my first practice round. The pin was in the same location, too. In that practice round, I mishit my approach way to the right, but it ended up falling down right by the pin. So in that last match, I knew exactly where I was going to hit it: I aimed at the right-hand side of the green and let the slope take it to within a foot. It was like a déjà vu shot because I had done it already on that Monday. Two years later in Ireland, that was one of the few places where my mom and dad walked around together. They drove all the way from Scotland to see it. That was really nice, to have them there watching.
Tom Mackin, a former Senior Editor at GOLF Magazine, is a frequent contributor to usga.org. Top: Karen Stupples, far left, with her victorious GB&I teammates in 1996. Above: Janice Moodie at the 1994 Curtis Cup Match.
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The Game OF THEIR LIVES
Women’s amateur golf is growing for players of all ages BY BILL FIELDS
W
HEN NOREEN MOHLER arrived for the Women’s Eastern Senior Amateur
last fall in Whispering Pines, N.C., she couldn’t help noticing all the familiar faces, some of whom she had known most of her life. Mohler had met Shelley
Savage at the 1968 U.S. Girls’ Junior, and she’d been playing against some of her other fellow competitors for almost as long. “I know a lot of the women now from amateur and junior golf 40 to 50 years ago,” says Mohler, 64,
‘No parents allowed.’ I would say, ‘I am a player,’ and whip out my badge.”
a member of the 1978 USA Curtis Cup Team and its
As Curtis Cup captain the following year, Mohler
captain in 2010. “We’ve gone through life, good times
had a team comprised of five teens — including Lexi
and bad times. But golf has always been there.”
Thompson, 15 — and three players who were 20. The
Women’s amateur golf in the U.S. has evolved a great deal during Mohler’s half century or so
women’s golf youth movement was in full swing, the competitive landscape inexorably altered.
around the game. Mohler got a taste of one of the
In the 2007 U.S. Women’s Amateur won by 17-year-
biggest changes — more females being more skilled at
old Maria Jose Uribe, of Colombia, the average age
younger ages — when she qualified for the 2009 U.S.
of the quarterfinalists was 16.63. When 21-year-old
Women’s Amateur at Old Warson Country Club in
Sophia Schubert, of Oak Ridge, Tenn., won the 2017
St. Louis, Mo., at age 55.
U.S. Women’s Amateur at San Diego (Calif.) Country
“It was funny because I had to talk my way into the
Club, where the average age of the 156-player field
locker room,” said Mohler. “The guard would say,
was 18.86, she became the first golfer older than 19 to
OPPOSITE (clockwise from top left): Lexi Thompson at the 2010 Curtis Cup Match; Noreen Mohler hoisting the Curtis Cup during the Closing Ceremony in 2010; four participants in The First Tee, a nationwide program that teaches golf and values including respect, integrity, and perseverance; Sophia Schubert during the first round of stroke play at the 2011 U.S. Girls’ Junior; 1997 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship winner Beth Bauer; Ellen Port hands her club to caddie/husband Andy during the finals of her win at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur. 32
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win the championship in nine years. Yet despite snapping a streak of teenage victors, Schubert
T H E I R
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for newbies, particularly those not sure about how serious their golf intentions are.
herself was a testament to the evolution. Schubert was
“The traditional model was to sign a girl up for a tourna-
exposed to the sport through LPGA/USGA Girls Golf, a
ment thinking it would be a fun thing,” she said. “Well, a girl
program administered through a partnership between the
shoots 125 paired with a girl who shoots 78, and she’s like,
LPGA Foundation and the USGA that has been pivotal in
‘I’m out of here.’ It was total intimidation. There needed to
introducing young females to golf.
be a lot more steps to get to that point, and to be OK with a
“LPGA/USGA Girls Golf made the game fun for me
decision if you don’t want to get there. Competition at that
and provided competition at an early age,” Schubert told
level is wonderful for those who choose it, but it’s not for
USGA.org. “Seeing progress in
everybody.”
myself kept me wanting to play
As demonstrated by LPGA/
more.”
USGA Girls Golf and other youth
More than 70,000 girls are
initiatives such as The First Tee,
involved across the U.S. at near-
PGA Junior League, and Drive,
ly 500 sites offering the program,
Chip & Putt, there is no one-size-
which has its roots in a project that
fits-all approach anymore. But
golf professional Sandy LaBauve
golf also is several decades deep
began in Arizona in 1989.
into a trend of increasing num-
“It’s not only introducing a lot of
bers of girls seriously devoting
girls to the game, but it’s teaching
themselves to the game through
them how to play and compete,”
competition in the American
said LaBauve. “That’s a big differ-
Junior Golf Association and other
ence to a lot of junior programs that
junior tours. Many have an eye
existed before — they exposed girls
on earning a college golf scholar-
to the game but it was kind of left up
ship or a vision of playing profes-
to individual clubs to create a pro-
sionally.
gram for these girls. At that point,
“When I was immersed in golf
there was only a handful of them. Through this program,
growing up in the 1950s and ’60s, the amateur was king
the girls come together. It’s like a club. They bond and they
or queen in the sport,” said career amateur Carol Semple
build friendships and they fall in love with the game.”
Thompson, 69, a seven-time USGA champion and 12-time
Getting young women interested in golf has long been
Curtis Cup competitor. “Things changed. I’m sure if I had
a challenge due to the game’s difficult, solitary nature. A
come along a decade or two later, I would have definitely
century ago, reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur champion
been thinking about the pro tour.”
Katherine Harley spoke of the challenge. “If a girl today
Ellen Port, 56, who played on USA Curtis Cup Teams
is ambitious to achieve prominence in golf,” Harley told
in 1994 and 1996 and captained the side in 2014, didn’t
The New York Times, “she must determine to go through a
take up golf until she was in her mid-20s after playing
hard course of training and many disappointing defeats for
team sports. In 1990, she took golf lessons from noted in-
at least two years.”
structor Hank Haney. One of Haney’s other pupils was a middle-schooler named Kelli Kuehne, who would go on
Kelli Kuehne, 1994 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship winner.
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LaBauve knows that disappointments can be deflating
GOLF IS SEVERAL DECADES DEEP INTO A TREND OF INCREASING NUMBERS OF GIRLS SERIOUSLY DEVOTING THEMSELVES TO THE GAME THROUGH COMPETITION IN THE AMERICAN JUNIOR GOLF ASSOCIATION AND OTHER JUNIOR TOURS.
to win the 1994 U.S. Girls’ Junior and consecutive U.S.
the LPGA Tour in the 1980s. “The money wasn’t there,
Women’s Amateur titles in 1995 and 1996 before embark-
and it could be a hard life with the travel and the loneliness.
ing on a pro career.
Not that it’s glamorous all the time now – and there isn’t
“I saw how the young breed was coming into golf,”
equal pay to what the men are making – but it’s different.”
Port said. “Kelli was that new version, starting sooner and
Beth Ann Nichols has reported on women’s amateur
getting really good fast. Golf is such that you can have
and professional golf extensively for Golfweek since 2002.
success early, and it seems like players’ primes are getting
She brings to her coverage the perspective of a good junior
much earlier.”
golfer who played collegiately at Florida Southern College
Reflecting that trend, the average age of competitors
from 1998-2002.
in the 2017 U.S. Women’s Open was 25.56, with nearly
Before she wrote her first golf story, Nichols saw the
two-thirds as many teenagers (20) in the 156-player field as
future at a high school district tournament when she was
golfers 30 or older (33).
paired with Beth Bauer, who won the 1997 U.S. Girls’
“The lure of professional sports wasn’t that great when I was younger,” said Mohler, who did have a brief stint on
Junior Championship. “It’s raining sideways, and my umbrella is barreling
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NICHOLS POINTS TO THE STRONG RUN BY 17-YEAR-OLD AMATEUR MORGAN PRESSEL IN THE 2005 U.S. WOMEN’S OPEN AT CHERRY HILLS COUNTRY CLUB OUTSIDE DENVER, COLO., AS INSPIRING YOUNG GOLFERS TO BELIEVE THEY COULD ACHIEVE THEIR DREAMS SOONER RATHER THAN LATER
down the first fairway and I’m chasing it. Beth’s not far
Michelle Wie, shared the lead after 54 holes and lost to an
away, and it’s like she’s under a rainbow not fazed by the
unlikely birdie from a greenside bunker on the 72nd hole
weather. I was like, ‘Wow, she’s so poised and polished.’
by Birdie Kim.
We were the same age, and I was in awe watching how she
“I really think that opened the door to younger kids
went about her business. She seemed so head and shoul-
looking at big stages a lot earlier,” Nichols said. “Players
ders above everyone then. Now it seems there are dozens
and their parents saw the diminutive Pressel and thought,
and dozens of Beth Bauers, so many polished young ladies
‘If she could do this, why don’t we give it a shot?’”
who play beyond their years.”
By 2015, according to National Golf Foundation sta-
Nichols points to the strong run by 17-year-old ama-
tistics, 32 percent of junior golfers were female compared
teur Morgan Pressel in the 2005 U.S. Women’s Open at
to 17 percent in 1995, with the total number of female
Cherry Hills Country Club outside Denver, Colo., as
golfers at 24 percent, four percent greater than fiveyears
inspiring young golfers to believe they could achieve
before. Although it certainly isn’t yet a level playing
their dreams sooner rather than later. Pressel, a petite
field everywhere in terms of access for women and girls
player lacking the jaw-dropping power of fellow amateur
at private clubs, there is more inclusivity.
LPGA/USGA Girls Golf introduces young girls to the game of golf across the U.S.
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“...I THINK DOORS ARE OPENING RATHER THAN CLOSING, AND EVERY TIME SOME OF THE OLD RULES GO AWAY, IT MAKES THE GAME MORE INVITING." — SANDY LABAUVE
“Sure, I think doors are opening rather than closing,” said LaBauve. “And every time some of the old rules go
studying for an exam,” Port said. “These girls have such a balance in their lives.”
away, it makes the game more inviting. Instead of looking
Some women will take a while to embrace golf.
at all the reasons you can’t play, you’re looking for reasons
Missy Jones, a USGA committee member and Rules
why you can.”
official from Montana, knows women in their late 20s
Pam Murray, chair of the USGA Women’s Commit-
who were exposed to the game as children through The
tee, believes that the modernization of the Rules of Golf
First Tee but didn’t get hooked. “Now they’re getting into
toward a more understandable code
golf, though,” Jones said. “It wasn’t
and better pace of play – including
really their deal before, but they’re
innovations such as six-hole rounds –
seeing it can be fun and also a good
are important factors in keeping
business decision to play.”
recreational women amateurs in golf.
Murray sees converts from other
“I like that course architects are
sports.
looking at possibilities for people to
“I’ve seen a lot of women starting
play and enjoy the game,” said Mur-
golf at 40, 50 or 60, tennis players
ray. “A lot of golfers have no intention
whose knees or elbows can’t take it
of ever playing in a serious compe-
anymore,” she said. “And they find
tition. Making things simpler and
that they are meeting good quality
quicker could really help.”
people from all walks of life.”
As the women’s golf coach at
The game really is a smorgasbord,
Division III Washington University
whether a girl takes it up early — “I’ve
in St. Louis since 2015, Port, who has
seen golf bring shy little girls to
long juggled being a wife and mom
being confident young ladies,” Mohler
with her competitive desires, sees her
said — or a woman takes it up late.
young players juggle the demands of rigorous academics to play a sport they love.
“What we’re trying to do as a movement is enlighten women and girls that golf provides a lot of opportunities,”
“These kids are not aspiring to go pro, yet the sacrifices
LaBauve said. “You can play it for fun. You can play it to
they make to play college golf show how remarkable they
compete. You can play it by yourself. You can play it to
are,” Port said. “They are a true breed of amateur.”
meet people. People can choose how golf is going to fit into
Representing Washington University as an individual
their lives.”
where she tied for fifth, Samantha Haubenstock had to take
North Carolina native and Connecticut resident Bill Fields has
two final exams during tournament week. “There was a 30-
written golf stories since the mid-1980s for a variety of publications
minute backup on a par 3 and she had her notecards out,
with a keen interest in the game’s history.
2005 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Morgan Pressel.
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1 PA R 5 5 0 8 YA R D S FINDING THE FAIRWAY
is helpful on this
opening par 5, but not as important as the placement of the second shot. A large cross-bunker approximately 15 feet deep sits about 50 yards short of the green, adding considerable risk to any effort to reach the green in two. The best angle of approach is from the left side of the fairway, which bows out to the left in the lay-up zone. The large, two-tiered green slopes decidedly from back to front and mildly from left to right; it is essential to keep the approach below the hole, though deep bunkers flank the front portion of putting surface. If the hole location is on the back-left shelf, it takes a great approach to stop on that level and not spin back down, even with world-class players hitting wedges.
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K E Y FA C T DURING THE FIRST DAY’S AFTERNOON SINGLES AT THE 1997 WALKER CUP MATCH, ALL EIGHT USA PLAYERS BIRDIED THE FIRST HOLE… WHEN THIS HOLE WAS ORIGINALLY DESIGNED IN 1918, THE GREEN WAS DIRECTLY BEHIND THE FAIRWAY BUNKER; IT WAS MOVED TO ITS CURRENT LOCATION BY TILLINGHAST IN 1927.
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2 PA R 4 3 9 3 YA R D S IT IS TEMPTING
to play a fade around the
corner of this dogleg-right hole, but that tee shot can lead to more trouble than it’s worth. A straightaway drive will hold the fairway or at worst run into the first cut. The green is receptive to approaches from a moderate distance, open in front to allow the ball to be played in on a bounce. The putting surface slopes from back to front and left to right, with a diagonal ridge dividing it almost into quadrants. Going beyond the hole is problematic, but this is generally a green-light green for aggressive play.
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3 PA R 4 4 07 YA R D S PROBABLY THE
straightest hole at Quaker
Ridge, which actually makes it more difficult to hit the fairway for players who like to work the ball. The fairway bunker on the right should be avoided with a drive down the left center, which will catch a speed slot for additional yardage. If the hole location is on the right, you can make par from anywhere on or around the green except the right-side bunker. The putting surface runs generally from back-right to front-left. Four is a very good score here!
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4 PA R 4 3 8 2 YA R D S A HUGE OAK
left of the fairway provides an
aiming point from the tee. A drive on the higher left side of the fairway will gain 20 yards from the bounce and run. The distinctive rough-covered island in the center of the fairway should not come into play for the caliber of players in the Curtis Cup. The left side of the green is guarded by the deepest bunker at Quaker Ridge; the putting surface cannot be seen from the sand. The bunker to the right on approach looks as though it’s right up against the green, but it’s actually 10 yards short. The green slopes slightly from back to front and though it is steepest at its front-center, the longitudinal ridge at the rear is its best defense against a player whose approach winds up on the wrong side.
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K E Y FA C T BYRON NELSON TOURED THE GOLF COURSE IN 1997, 61 YEARS AFTER WINNING THE MET OPEN AT QUAKER RIDGE. WHEN HE GOT TO THE FOURTH TEE HE ASKED, “WHERE’S THE OTHER BIG TREE?” A LARGE OAK USED TO STAND ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE FAIRWAY, MATCHING THE ONE ON THE LEFT. WHENEVER NELSON CAME TO THIS TEE DURING THE COMPETITION, HE THOUGHT OF “KICKING A FIELD GOAL” BETWEEN THE TWO GOALPOST TREES.
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5 PA R 3 15 5 YA R D S A BEAUTIFUL LITTLE HOLE
featuring the
only pond in play on the course. There will be many birdies in the Curtis Cup, even with a possible hole location on the back tier of the green. With a short- or mid-iron in hand, players will be able to get close to the hole even when it’s placed near the ridge that runs laterally through the putting surface. The back-to-front slope complicates bunker play from either side of the narrow green.
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PA R 4 4 2 4 YA R D S HEAD PROFESSIONAL
Mario Guerra says,
“We should sell T-shirts in the pro shop that read, ‘I parred the sixth hole at Quaker Ridge!’ ” Four is an excellent score on this hole that played as a par 5 when the course opened. The fairway bends to the right off the tee, but slopes away from the two large bunkers on the right toward Sheldrake Creek on the left side. Players who can fly their drives over the bunkers will have a mid-iron approach up the rise to a tricky green with a knob in the back-right and a dip at the front-left. Others who hit less than a driver for placement left-center may be hitting hybrids in. Par could easily be a winning score here.
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7 PA R 4 3 8 6 YA R D S A SECOND CONSECUTIVE
stout two-shot-
ter. A straight drive off the tee may wind up in the left rough, while a left-to-right drive follows the fairway but also curves toward out-of-bounds markers on the right. A perfect high draw over the trees on the right is ideal, but still leaves a challenging uphill shot to the hardest green to hit and hold on the golf course. The false front will send an inadequate second shot some 10 to 20 yards back down the slope. Deep bunkers frame the green, and another lurks behind it that leaves a recovery shot that’s almost impossible to keep on the back-to-front sloping green.
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8 PA R 4 311 YA R D S THE DEFINING FEATURE
of this short par
4 is the pair of thick-grassed bumps in the center of the fairway — the second blocked from view by the first. A tee shot flying 220 yards will land past it, but the uphill nature of the shot adds considerable difficulty. The best angle to the green is from the right side, but the strip of fairway there is much narrower than on the left and out of bounds lurks just 10 yards beyond. From the left, the view of the putting surface is blocked by the front-left bunker. The green is the flattest on the course, but the contrast with the previous surfaces makes it easy to imagine breaks that aren’t there.
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9 PA R 3 13 9 YA R D S A
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MATCH-PLAY
HOLE.
The
first
player to hold the green has a big advantage. Though the shot will be played with a short iron, it’s hard to read the wind from the tee without checking the flagpole near the clubhouse. A shallow kidneyshaped green awaits, elevated slightly and ringed with bunkers; the unseen one past the putting surface leaves an almost impossible up-and-down. The green slopes from back-left to front-right, opposite the direction of the prevailing hillside that runs down from the clubhouse.
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K E Y FA C T AN ENORMOUS OAK TREE, ESTIMATED TO BE AT LEAST 350 YEARS OLD, STOOD WELL TO THE RIGHT OF THIS HOLE UNTIL IT WAS FELLED BY A WINDSTORM IN 2014. BRITISH COMMANDER SIR WILLIAM HOWE CAMPED WITH HIS TROOPS UNDER THE TREE DURING THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.
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10 PA R 3 175 YA R D S A VERY DIFFERENT
one-shotter than the
one before it, this gorgeous hole requires a full shot downhill to a huge green — the largest at Quaker Ridge — that is higher on the left side than the right and steepest at the back. The teeing ground points toward the bunkers on the right, and better players will make their mistake in that direction; even playing out of the sand from there leaves a fairly comfortable up-anddown. Tee shots that fly beyond the flagstick, whether they wind up on the green or past it, present a very difficult prospect for par.
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11 PA R 4 372 YA R D S FROM THE TEE
and on the scorecard,
this hole looks simple — moderate length, wide fairway, creek running in front of the green. In fact, it’s one of the best par 4s on the East Coast. Three fairway bunkers on the right can lead the player to favor the left side, but a tall tulip poplar on the left will then block the approach. A shot from the bunkers or even the fairway with too much spin may hit the green and pull back into the water. The creek wraps around to the right, and the putting surface tilts slightly toward the creek. There’s an extreme false front on the left, a menacing prospect for any hole locations placed nearby. The middle of the green is always a good place to be.
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12 PAR 4 377 YAR D S THE HOLE IS STRAIGHTAWAY
but doesn’t look
it because of how the fairway slopes right to left and uphill to the green. The ideal drive draws off the right-hand fairway bunker, leaving an approach that plays roughly a club longer than the yardage. A grass bunker past the sand bunker to the right of the green has always been a feature of this hole. Only the first green is steeper than this one, so good players will keep their approaches below the hole—any putt from above it must be played defensively.
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13 PA R 3 19 6 YA R D S THE LONGEST
of the four par 3s plays
downhill past a bunker on the left that appears to abut the green but is actually 25 to 30 yards short. The large green looks as though it slopes from back to front, yet it follows the lay of the land running toward the rear of the surface. A diagonal trough runs through the green from frontleft to back-right, adding to the challenge of reading putts.
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K E Y FA C T THIS LONG DOWNHILL PAR-3 WAS NOT PART OF THE ORIGINAL GOLF COURSE. IT WAS ONE OF MANY CHANGES MADE BY TILLINGHAST IN THE 1920S AFTER THE CLUB ACQUIRED 28 ACRES WHERE THE THIRD HOLE NOW SITS.
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14 PA R 5 5 01 YA R D S
THE EXCEPTIONAL GOLFERS
competing in
the Curtis Cup will look at this as one of the first birdie opportunities in a long while. Though a string of bunkers runs along the left side, most players will make a confident swing and draw the ball into the wide fairway, putting them in position to fly easily past the half-dozen cross bunkers and run freely to the green. However, there are two bunkers on the right past the cross bunkers that can’t be seen from the initial landing area, ready to catch a second shot that leaks in their direction. The putting surface has a hog’s back running down the middle, and being on the correct side of the green is essential to assuring a successful two-putt. (For full view photos of this hole, see pages 2-3 and 40-41.)
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15 PA R 4 370 YA R D S THE TEE SHOT IS DOWNHILL,
and in firm
conditions players can leave the driver in the bag and play a fairway wood or hybrid to stay short of the crossing creek and still have only a wedge or short iron to the green. The fairway is wider than it appears from the tee, as part of the left side is blocked from view by trees. The putting surface is severely canted from back to front and left to right; play from the large right-hand bunker is relatively straightforward, while the left bunker is more difficult — and the long grass past it makes for a near-impossible up-and-down.
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16 PA R 4 3 9 4 YA R D S A BIG, BROAD-SHOULDERED HOLE.
The well-
placed drive in the left-center of the fairway, avoiding the fairway bunker on the right, provides a straight look at a green framed by deep flanking bunkers left and right and a scalloped bunker behind it. The putting surface is up a gentle rise from the fairway, divided by an arcing ridge into a steeper front portion and a flatter back plateau — a recurring theme at Quaker Ridge. The most difficult hole locations are middle-left (bringing the false front into play) and back-right.
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17 PA R 4 3 4 2 YA R D S FOR TOP-NOTCH PLAYERS,
this is another
birdie hole, an opportunity to tighten a match or close it out. The tee shot must avoid the bunkers on the right. Depending on the initial club selection, the second shot will likely be played with anything from an 8-iron to a sand wedge. With such a short club in hand, the player should be able to put the approach close; the green is the second-smallest (behind hole number nine) on the course. Putts from above the hole are treacherous, especially to a front hole location.
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K E Y FA C T ROBERT TRENT JONES DOUBLED THE SIZE OF THE GREEN WHEN HE UPDATED THE COURSE DESIGN IN THE 1960S, ADDING A TIER THAT EXTENDED DOWN AND TO THE LEFT. GIL HANSE RESTORED THE PUTTING SURFACE TO ITS ORIGINAL DIMENSIONS IN THE LATE 2000S.
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18 PA R 4 4 0 3 YA R D S A MATCH COULD EASILY come down to who
hits the fairway on this closing hole. Staring down at the clubhouse and aiming at the flagpole, the golfer can take advantage of the downslope in the left-middle portion of the fairway to gain precious yardage. A deceptive bunker on the right of the uphill approach is actually 85 yards short of the green. It prevents the player from seeing the small bunker that really is at the frontright of the green. The putting surface is less canted than many on the course, and players will be able to putt aggressively in pursuit of a vital point or half.
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The 4oth Curtis Cup Match Teams THE TEAMS Teams of eight women amateurs from the USA and from Great Britain and Ireland. The USGA’s International Team Selection Committee chooses the USA Team, while The R&A picks the GB&I side. SCHEDULE OF PLAY Thursday, June 7: Opening Ceremony Friday, June 8: Three morning foursomes; three afternoon four-ball matches. Saturday, June 9: Three morning foursomes; three afternoon four-ball matches. Sunday, June 10: Eight singles matches. SCORING One point is awarded for each victory, while each team receives a half-point for a halved match. GB&I needs 10 points to retain the Cup, while the USA needs 10.5 points to reclaim it.
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CURTIS CUP CAPTAINS (1932-2018) 1932 1934 1936 1938 1948 1950 1952 1954 1956 1958 1960 1962 1964 1966 1968 1970 1972 1974 1976 1978 1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012 2014 2016 2018
USA
GB&I
Marion Hollins Glenna Collett Vare Glenna Collett Vare Frances E. Stebbins Glenna Collett Vare Glenna Collett Vare Aniela Goldthwaite Edith Flippin Edith Flippin Virginia Dennehy Mildred Prunaret Polly Riley Helen Hawes Dorothy Germain Porter Evelyn Monsted Carolyn Cudone Jean Ashley Crawford Marion “Sis” Choate Barbara McIntire Helen Sigel Wilson Nancy Roth Syms Betty Probasco Phyllis Preuss Judy Bell Judy Bell Leslie Shannon Judith Oliver Lancy Smith Martha Lang Barbara McIntire Jane Bastanchury Booth Dr. Mary Budke Martha Wilkinson Kirouac Carol Semple Thompson Carol Semple Thompson Noreen Mohler Patricia Cornett Ellen Port Robin Burke Virginia Derby Grimes
Joyce Wethered Doris E. Chambers Doris E. Chambers R.H. Wallace-Williamson Doris E. Chambers Diana Fishwick Critchley Katherine Cairns Mrs. John B. Beck Zara Davis Bolton Daisy Ferguson Maureen Ruttle Garrett Frances Stephens Smith Elsie Corlett Zara Davis Bolton Zara Davis Bolton Jeanne Bisgood Frances Stephens Smith Belle McCorkindale Robertson Belle McCorkindale Robertson Carol Comboy Carol Comboy Marie O’Donnell Diane Robb Bailey Diane Robb Bailey Diane Robb Bailey Jill Thornhill Elizabeth Boatman Elizabeth Boatman Ita Butler Ita Butler Claire Dowling Pam Benka Ada O’Sullivan Ada O’Sullivan Mary McKenna Mary McKenna Tegwen Matthews Tegwen Matthews Elaine Farquharson-Black Elaine Farquharson-Black
VI RGI NIA D ERBY GRIME S
EL A INE FA RQUHA RSON-B L A C K
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G B &I T EA M C A P TA I N
Virginia Derby Grimes, of Montgomery, Ala., will serve as captain of the 2018 USA Curtis Cup Team. A member of the victorious 1998, 2000 and 2006 USA Curtis Cup Teams, Derby Grimes owns a 4-0-1 record in foursomes, which is tied for the second-best record in Match history. She is one of 10 women on either side to go undefeated while playing in at least four foursomes (alternate-shot) matches. Derby Grimes won the 1998 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur with a 4-and-3 victory over Robin Weiss at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas, and was runner-up to Corey Weworski in the 2004 championship. She was a member of Alabama’s winning team in the 1997 USGA Women’s State Team Championship and earned medalist honors in the 1995 and 1997 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships. A 1987 Auburn University graduate, Derby Grimes was a member of Auburn’s women’s golf team from 19851986 and served as the team’s coach from 1991-1994. Auburn recognized Derby Grimes in 1998 by renaming its women’s golf tournament the Auburn Tiger-Derby Invitational. The tournament, which has not been played since 2008, will be restarted in 2018 as the Evans-Derby Experience to also recognize former Auburn coach Kim Evans. In 2004, Derby Grimes was inducted into Auburn’s Tiger Trail, which honors outstanding athletes, coaches and administrators. Derby Grimes served on the USGA Women’s Committee from 2003-2004 and was inducted into the Alabama Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. The Alabama native is a fivetime Alabama Women’s Amateur and three-time Mississippi Women’s Amateur champion and won the 1987 and 1996 Women’s Southern Amateur Championships and the 1998 and 2006 South Atlantic Amateur Championships, known as the Sally.
ELAINE FARQUHARSON-BLACK will captain Great Britain and
LEFT: USGA. RIGHT: R&A
1998 U.S. WOMEN’S MID-AMATEUR CHAMPION
Ireland in the Curtis Cup Match for the second consecutive time when the biennial encounter against the United States of America is contested at Quaker Ridge Golf Club. Farquharson-Black, who played in the 1990 and 1992 matches, contributed a point to the GB&I victory at Royal Liverpool Golf Club in 1992 with her win in the Day 1 singles over Robin Weiss. As captain in 2016 she led GB&I to an 11½-8½ win over the USA at Dun Laoghaire in the Republic of Ireland. In addition to her two stints as Curtis Cup captain, Farquharson-Black has served at the helm of the GB&I team for the Vagliano Trophy against Continental Europe in 2015 and 2017, the Great Britain team in the Astor Trophy (formerly the Commonwealth Trophy) in 2015, and the Junior Vagliano in 2013. As a player, she won the Scottish Ladies’ Amateur Championship in 1990, the World Fourball (with Helen Dobson) in 1989, and the Helen Holm Trophy in 1987. Following three years as a professional golfer on the Futures and Women’s Professional Golf European Tour (now Ladies European Tour), she returned to the career in law she had begun in the early 1990s. A partner and head of the planning division of the legal firm Burness Paull in Aberdeen, Scotland; Farquharson-Black is the co-author of two leading textbooks on planning and compulsory purchase (eminent domain). She also currently serves as Vice Captain at Deeside Golf Club.
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USA Team
M A R I EL G AL D I ANO
KRIS T EN GILLMA N
JENNIFER KUPCHO
SOPHIA SCHUBERT
AGE: 19 PEARL CITY, HAWAII
AGE: 20 : AUSTIN, TEXAS
AGE: 20 WESTMINSTER, OHIO
AGE: 22 OAK RIDGE, TENNESSEE
Member of 2016 USA Curtis Cup Team (went 2-2-0) •
Member of 2016 USA World Amateur Team
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Won individual and team gold medal at 2017 World University Games •
• Has qualified for four U.S. Women’s Opens
Medalist in 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur (equaled second-lowest round in championship history) •
Graduated from Punahou School in Hawaii (alums include President Barack Obama and past Curtis Cup players Michelle Wie and Stephanie Kono)
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Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team •
Sophomore at University of Alabama •
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Won 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur, defeating future major champion Brooke Henderson in final at Nassau Country Club
Member of 2014 USA Women’s World Amateur Team •
First-team All-American (2016-17 season) •
Southeastern Conference Freshman of the Year (2016-17) •
Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team •
Set single-season Alabama record with 22 rounds of par or better (2016-17)
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Advanced to the Round of 16 of 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur
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Junior at Wake Forest
University Tied for 21st in 2017 U.S. Women’s Open (second low amateur) •
• Qualified for 2016 U.S. Women’s Open
Set single-season Wake Forest scoring record in 2016-17 (70.61 average) •
• Runner-up in 2017 NCAA Championship
First-team All-American (2016-17 season) •
• Won three college tourna- ments in 2016-17, including NCAA Athens Regional
Won 2017 Canadian Women’s Amateur •
• Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team • First Coloradan to be selected to Curtis Cup Team since Jill McGill in 1994
Senior at University of Texas •
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Won 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur at San Diego Country Club, defeating Albane Valenzuela in the final match Third University of Texas golfer to win the U.S. Women’s Amateur (Michiko Hattori and past USA Curtis Cup competitor Kelli Kuehne)
Transferred to Texas after one season at Auburn University •
Low amateur in 2017 Evian Championship •
Will play in 2018 U.S. Women’s Open at Shoal Creek •
Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team •
Honorable-mention Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-America for 2016-2017 season •
Two-time All-Big 12 selection •
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Sophomore at UCLA
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AN DREA LEE
LAURE N S T EP HENSON
LUCY LI
AGE: 19 HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA
AGE: 20 LEXINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA
AGE: 15 REDWOOD SHORES, CALIFORNIA
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Sophomore at Stanford University
• Junior at University of Alabama
Member of 2016 USA Curtis Cup Team (1-2-0 record)
Spent one season at Clemson University before transferring for 2016-17 season
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Named 2016-17 PING/ Women’s Golf Coaches Association Freshman of the Year and first-team All-American
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Named 2016-17 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
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Member of 2016 USA Women’s World Amateur Team
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Led USA to gold medal in 2017 World University Games
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Won 2017 Pac-12 Preview Tournament
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Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team
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Second-team Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American (2016-17 season) •
Qualified for two U.S. Women’s Opens (T-41 in 2017; MC in 2016) •
• Lost 30-hole quarterfinal match in 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur, the longest in USGA history • Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team
Won 2016 Mason Rudolph Championship •
First 15-year-old named to Curtis Cup Team since Lexi Thompson in 2010
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Junior at UCLA
Won fourth collegiate title in a row on March 7, 2018 at Wildcat Invitational in Tucson, Ariz.
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Quarterfinalist in 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur
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Medalist in 2017 U.S. Girls’ Junior
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T-40 in 2018 ANA Inspiration
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Semifinalist in 2017 U.S. Women’s Amateur
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Two-time ANA Inspiration competitor; low amateur in 2017
Named to 2018 USA Palmer Cup Team
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Youngest to ever qualify for match play in U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links (10 years, 8 months, 16 days in 2013)
• Won Girls 10-11 age division in the inaugural Drive, Chip & Putt Championship at Augusta National in 2015
Won 2016 Junior PGA Championship
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Quarterfinalist in 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur
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AGE: 20 FOUNTAIN VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Youngest U.S. Women’s Open qualifier ever (11 years, 8 months, 9 days in 2014)
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Runner-up in 2016 U.S. Girls’ Junior
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Two-time Women’s Golf Coaches Association first-team All-American •
Qualified for 2015 U.S. Women’s Open •
Runner-up to USA Curtis Cup teammate Jennifer Kupcho in 2017 Canadian Women’s Amateur •
Named 2015-16 Pac-12 Freshman of the Year •
Member of 2016 and 2017 USA Junior Ryder Cup Teams
Winner of the 2017 PING Invitational and Rolex Tournament of Champions
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Great Britain & Ireland Team
INDIA CLYBURN
ANNABEL FULLER
PA UL A G RA NT
A L IC E HE WSO N
AGE: 21 HOME CLUB: WOODHALL SPA, ENGLAND
AGE: 15 HOME CLUB: ROEHAMPTON, ENGLAND
AGE: 24 HOME CLUB: LISBURN, IRELAND
AGE: 20 HOME CLUB: BERKHAMSTED, ENGLAND
• Finished junior year at North Carolina State University
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Runner-up in English Women’s Amateur Championship
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Represented Great Britain and Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy against Continental Europe
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Owns eight top-10 finishes during three-year college career, including a share of first place in the 2015 Mercedes Collegiate
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Older sister Holly competes on the LPGA Tour and was a member of the 2010 and 2012 GB&I Curtis Cup Teams
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Won 2014 English Girls Championship
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Youngest member of the Great Britain and Ireland Team Began 2018 season with a runner-up finish in the Portuguese International Ladies Amateur Won the 2017 English Girls Open Amateur Championship
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Runner-up in 2017 Annika Invitational
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Posted top-five finishes in the European Young Masters, German Girls Championship and Dutch Girls Junior Open
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Elder stateswoman of the Great Britain and Ireland Team and oldest player on either side
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A former R&A Foundation Scholar
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Won 2017 Irish Women’s Closed Championship for the second time in five years (2013)
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Led all competitors in the stroke play portion of the 2017 Ladies British Open Amateur Championship at Pyle & Kenfig
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One of two returning competitors, with Olivia Mehaffey, from the 2016 Match at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club
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Just finished junior year at Clemson University
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Owns three collegiate victories: Clemson Invitational, the Cougar Classic and the Lady Paladin
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Played one year at Clemson with USA competitor Lauren Stephenson before Stephenson transferred after freshman campaign to Alabama
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Has captured two gold medals representing England at the European Team Championships
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Won 2014 U21 Scottish Girls Championship by 12 strokes R&A (8)
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SOPHIE LAMB
SHANNON McWILLIAM
OLIVIA MEHAFFEY
AGE: 16 HOME CLUB: STOKE BY NAYLAND, ENGLAND
AGE: 20 • HOME CLUB: CLITHEROE, ENGLAND
AGE: 18 • HOME CLUB: ABOYNE, SCOTLAND
AGE: 20 HOME CLUB: ROYAL COUNTY DOWN LADIES, NORTHERN IRELAND
Claimed 2018 Helen Holm Championship at Royal Troon a week before being named to Great Britain and Ireland Team
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Won 2017 Girls British Open Amateur Championship
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Won 2017 English Women’s Amateur Championship
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Won 2017 European Young Masters
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Also captured the Sir Henry Cooper Masters and Junior Orange Bowl Invitational in 2017
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Represented Great Britain and Ireland in the 2017 Junior Vagliano Trophy
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Claimed the Smyth Salver as the leading amateur in the 2017 Ricoh Women’s British Open at Kingsbarns
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Runner-up in 2017 Irish Women’s Open Championship
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Represented Great Britain and Ireland in 2017 Vagliano Trophy against Continental Europe
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Won 2016 Ladies British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship
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Started 2018 by winning the Border Championship by six strokes at East London in South Africa
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Runner-up in 2017 and 2018 Helen Holm Championship at Royal Troon
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Runner-up in 2017 Scottish Girls Open Championship
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Captured the 2015 Scottish Ladies Order of Merit
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Just completed sophomore year at Arizona State University
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One of two returning competitors for GB&I side with Alice Hewson
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Posted a 2-1-1 record in 2016 Match at Dun Laoghaire Golf Club
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Won 2016 Irish Women’s Open Stroke Play Championship and Welsh Ladies Open Stroke Play Championship
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Shared medalist honors at 2018 Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge with Kaitlyn Papp (Texas) and current USA Team competitor Lilia Vu (UCLA)
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Selected to represent International side of 2018 Palmer Cup to be contested in France in July
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Curtis Sisters The Cup THE
AND
BY B I LL F I E LD S
“The Revere Bowl look is wonderful,” Thompson said. “For simplicity, you can’t beat the Curtis Cup.” Few if any sporting events had a longer gestation period than the Curtis Cup Match. But more than a century after sisters Harriot and Margaret Curtis came up with the idea, it is abundantly clear that the wait was worth it. Except for a hiatus caused by World War II, the Curtis Cup has been contested every other year since 1932, when an eager gallery of 10,000 spectators attended the first match at Wentworth Golf Club in Surrey. “Very few of those who followed the games saw more than a shot here or there,” the Glasgow Herald reported. “It was a mad, scampering crowd, some carrying step-ladders, others using periscopes and women taking their mirrors from their vanity bag, and men and women seeking every vantage point, even to climbing trees.” That exciting scene, highlighted by the appearance of legends Joyce Wethered and Glenna Collett Vare, was nearly three decades in the making. Harriot Curtis, who won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 1906, and Margaret, who defeated her older sister in the 1907 final and added titles in 1911 and 1912, began thinking about an international women’s competition in 1905. That year, Harriot and Margaret — the youngest of 10 children in a prominent Massachusetts family — were among a small group of Americans who traveled to Royal Cromer Golf Club to compete in the British Ladies Amateur. For a few days prior to the championship, golfers from England, Scotland, Ireland and the United States squared 1962 Curtis Cup program, Margaret wrote: “My sister and I
won seven USGA
always enjoyed Team match play with its added responsibil-
championships, the first being the 1973 U.S.
ity. At Cromer, we got there a day or two ahead to learn the
Women’s Amateur for which she received the
course. Some of the Britishers asked us if we wouldn’t play a
Robert Cox Trophy, the most decorative of the USGA’s
team of them and we said we’d love to. We Americans were
trophies. Ten times — eight as a player and two as cap-
just friends, but, in a gay, hopeless mood, we took them on.
tain — she has triumphantly held a less ornate but no less
Miss Georgianna N. Bishop was the only one of us to win,
special piece of silver.
but we greatly enjoyed the match and the occasion.”
AROL SEMPLE THOMPSON
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LEFT AND OPPOSITE: USGA (3)
C
off in unofficial matches. Recalling that experience in the
In support of his sisters, Jim Curtis offered a few years
women golfers of many lands.”
later to finance a British-American women’s match, but his
When USGA President H.H. Ramsay announced in the
largesse was rejected as not in the spirit of amateur golf.
spring of 1931 that an official match between Great Brit-
Then came World War I, during which Margaret became
ain and the U.S. would be inaugurated the following year,
deeply involved in social services in Europe. As life return-
Margaret told The New York Times that it was a “pleasant
ed to normal in the 1920s, the Curtis sisters started thinking
sensation to have the cup called the Curtis Trophy” but
again about global golf and an international match.
would have preferred it be named the “International Cup.”
In 1927, Harriot and Margaret bought a trophy — sterling silver, 9 ¾ inches tall and 10 inches wide including its base.
By any moniker, the trophy was not actually up for grabs in 1932. Britain’s Ladies’ Golf Union, which had
“Actually, we were not impressed by either the size or
recently turned down an individual’s offer of a prize for a
the quality of the cup,” Margaret told Golf Journal many
match between British and French women, cited that as prece-
years later, “yet it was the best that could be obtained in
dent and declined to play for it. There was no such reluctance
Boston at the time. Our chief aim was to accelerate the
two years later, however. The bowl bought in Boston by two
start of matches with the girls overseas.”
pioneering female golfers awaited the winners at Chevy Chase
The Curtis sisters offered to replace the original cup with
Club in Maryland that year and has been a focus ever since,
a larger version in the 1950s but were declined. The cup
a shiny symbol of a spirited competition and the spirit of two
was inscribed, “To stimulate friendly rivalry among the
sisters who pursued a dream.
Margaret Curtis (left), circa 1905, and her sister Harriot.
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The 2o16 Curtis Cup
GB&I reclaimed the Curtis Cup with 11.5-8.5 victory over USA JUNE 10-12 • DUN LAOGHAIRE GOLF CLUB, ENNISKERRY, IRELAND CAPTAINS: GB&I: ELAINE FARQUHARSON-BLACK • USA: ROBIN BURKE
raced toward fellow
they each had to earn no worse than a half-point. As the
Englishwoman Bronte Law and bear-hugged
Cup defenders, the USA only needed 10 points to retain,
her teammate, who was doing media
while GB&I required 10½ points to reclaim it.
EGHA N M A C L A RE N
interviews just off the 18th green at Dun Laoghaire Golf
MacLaren saw a 3-up lead against Bethany Wu, 18, of
Club on Sunday afternoon. The shouts from the partisan
Diamond Bar, Calif., vanish to 1-up after consecutive mis-
gallery were loud enough to carry up to nearby Sugar Loaf
takes on Nos. 15 and 16. But a Wu bogey on the par-5 17th
Mountain.
ended the match.
MacLaren, 22, had deliv-
Up at 18, the GB&I players
ered the winning point on the
had to hold back their excite-
17th hole shortly before Law,
ment as Law, 1-up on 17-year-
21, converted a 2-foot par putt
old Mika Liu of Beverly Hills,
to tie a record for most points
Calif., executed a perfect pitch
in a single Match. Those sin-
from greenside rough to two
gles wins ended what had
feet. Liu nearly holed her long
been a valiant American come-
birdie putt but then missed the
back and gave GB&I an 11½-
come-backer for par. This set
8½ triumph.
the stage for Law, who rolled
“Nothing even comes close
in her par putt for the 2-up win,
to this,” said MacLaren, a Flor-
setting off a raucous celebration.
ida International University
Players mobbed Law, a
graduate. “This is incredible. I can’t even put it into words.”
UCLA star who joined American Stacy Lewis (2008) as
The home team came into the last eight singles match-
the only players to post a 5-0 mark in a single Curtis Cup.
es with a four-point cushion, thanks to a sweep of the three
“The team was just incredible,” said Law, recipient of the
four-ball matches on Saturday when GB&I shot a combined
2016 Annika Award as the top female collegiate golfer in the
20 under par.
USA. “Coming into this, a lot of people had written us off.
With the Americans putting plenty of victories on the
For me to end it this way — it’s probably going to be my last
board — the score had narrowed to 9½-7½ and the USA
Curtis Cup — is just a dream. I am so proud to just represent
was leading in the final match — MacLaren and Law knew
my country.”
Olivia Mehaffey (arms raised) exults with her teammates following GB&I’s victory.
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M
BY DAVID SHEFTER, USGA
Curtis Cup Results (1932 –PRESENT)
1932
USA 5½
GB&I
3½ Wentworth Golf Club—Wentworth, England
1934
USA 6½
GB&I
2½ Chevy Chase Club—Chevy Chase, Md.
1936
USA 4½
GB&I
4½ King's Course—Gleneagles, Scotland
1938
USA 5½
GB&I
3½ Essex County Club—Manchester, Mass.
NO MATCH E S H E LD B ETWE E N 1940-46 (WORLD WAR I I) 1948
USA 6½
GB&I
2½ Birkdale Golf Club—Birkdale, England
1950
USA 7½
GB&I
1½ Country Club of Buffalo—Williamsville, N.Y.
1952
GB&I 5
USA
4
Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers—Muirfield, Gullane, Scotland
1954
USA 6
GB&I
3
Merion Golf Club (East Course)—Ardmore, Pa.
1956
GB&I 5
USA
4
Prince’s Golf Club—Sandwich Bay, Kent, England
1958
USA 4½
GB&I
4½ Brae Burn Country Club—West Newton, Mass.
1960
USA 6½
GB&I
2½ Lindrick Golf Club—Lindrick, South Yorkshire, England
1962
USA 8
GB&I
1
1964
USA 10½ GB&I
7½ Royal Porthcawl Golf Club—Porthcawl, South Wales
1966
USA 13
5
1968
USA 10½ GB&I
7½ Royal County Down Golf Club—Newcastle, County Down, Northern Ireland
1970
USA 11½ GB&I
6½ Brae Burn Country Club—West Newton, Mass.
1972
USA 10
GB&I
8
Western Gailes—Ayrshire, Scotland
1974
USA 13
GB&I
5
San Francisco Golf Club—San Francisco, Calif.
1976
USA 11½ GB&I
6½ Royal Lytham and St. Annes Golf Club, St. Annes-On-Sea—Lancashire, England
1978
USA 12
GB&I
6
The Apawamis Club—Rye, N.Y.
1980
USA 13
GB&I
5
St. Pierre Golf & Country Club—Chepstow, Gwent, Wales
1982
USA 14½ GB&I
3½ Denver Country Club—Denver, Colo.
1984
USA 9½ GB&I
8½ Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers—Muirfield, Gullane, Scotland
1986
GB&I 13
USA
5
Prairie Dunes Country Club—Hutchinson, Kan.
1988
GB&I 11
USA
7
Royal St. George’s Golf Club—Sandwich, England
1990
USA 14
GB&I
4
Somerset Hills Golf Club—Bernardsville, N.J.
1992
GB&I 10
USA
8
Royal Liverpool Golf Club—Hoylake, England
1994
USA
GB&I
9
The Honors Course—Chattanooga, Tenn.
1996
GB&I 11½ USA
6½ Killarney Golf & Fish Club (Killeen Course)—Killarney, Ireland
1998
USA 10
GB&I
8
The Minikahda Club—Minneapolis, Minn.
2000
USA 10
GB&I
8
Ganton Golf Club—North Yorkshire, England
2002
USA 11
GB&I
7
Fox Chapel Golf Club—Pittsburgh, Pa.
2004
USA 10
GB&I
8
Formby Golf Club—Merseyside, England
2006
USA 11½ GB&I
6½ Bandon Dunes Golf Resort (Pacific Dunes Course)—Bandon, Ore.
2008
USA 13
7
2010
USA 12½ GB&I
7½ Essex County Club—Manchester, Mass.
2012
GB&I 10½ USA
9½ The Nairn Golf Club—Nairn, Scotland
2014
USA 13
7
2016
GB&I 11½ USA
9
GB&I
GB&I
GB&I
Broadmoor Golf Club—Colorado Springs, Colo. Virginia Hot Springs Golf & Tennis Club (Cascades Course)—Hot Springs, Va.
Old Course at St. Andrews—St. Andrews, Scotland
St. Louis Country Club—St. Louis, Mo.
8½ Dun Laoghaire Golf Club—Dublin, Ireland
USA LEADS SERIES 28-8-3
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NEW WORLD HANDICAP SYSTEM:
Designed to Welcome The way golfers around the world will calculate their handicaps is set to be transformed by a new system developed by the USGA and The R&A, with key features designed to provide all golfers with a consistent measure of playing ability. The new World Handicap System, to be implemented in 2020, follows an extensive review process. The new system will feature the following: • Flexibility in formats of play, allowing both competitive and recreational rounds to count for handicap purposes • A minimal number of scores needed to obtain a new handicap; a recommendation that the number of scores needed to obtain a new handicap be 54 holes from any combination of 18-hole and 9-hole rounds • A consistent handicap that is portable from course to course and country to country through worldwide use of the USGA Course and Slope Rating System • An average-based calculation of a handicap, taken from the best eight out of the last 20 scores and factoring in memory of demonstrated ability for better responsiveness and control • A calculation that considers the impact that abnormal course and weather conditions might have on a player’s performance each day • Daily handicap revisions, taking account of the course and weather conditions calculation • A limit of Net Double Bogey on the maximum hole score (for handicapping purposes only). • A maximum handicap limit of 54.0, regardless of gender, to encourage more golfers to measure and track their performance to increase their enjoyment of the game Quantitative research was conducted in 15 countries around the world. This was followed by a series of focus groups, in which more than 300 golf administrators and golfers from regions around the world offered extensive feedback on the features of the proposed new system.
World Handicap System Timeline Support obtained from Handicap Authorities and National Associations International Committee established to develop system proposals Feedback obtained from golfers and administrators/ golf facilities
The tenets of the new system focus on three main objectives: to encourage as many golfers as possible to obtain and maintain a handicap; to enable golfers of differing abilities, genders and nationalities to transport their handicap to any course globally and compete on a fair basis; and to indicate with sufficient accuracy the score a golfer is reasonably capable of achieving on any course around the world, playing under normal conditions. Given worldwide alignment towards a single system, all parties will now embark on a two-year transition period targeting implementation in 2020. When adopted, the World Handicap System will be governed by the USGA and The R&A and administered by national and regional associations around the world. To provide feedback to the USGA on the new World Handicap System, email us at whsfeedback@usga.org, or see usga.org/whs. Golfers are encouraged to follow and join in the conversation on social media by using #GolfWHS2020.
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PAST & PRESENT CLUB CHAMPIONS
PRO-AM
Patty Allen, Wykagyl Country Club/ Shinnecock Hills Golf Club
Corinne Ball Weber
Sally Markiewicz
Baltusrol Golf Club
Norman Matthews
Phyllis Anikstein, Fresh Meadow Country Club
John Berger
Beverly Michel
Meg Brennan Cobb, The Creek
Lisa Black
Becky Montgelas
Gale Brudner, GlenArbor Golf Club
Robert Brennan
Patricia Moore
Kathy Calfa, Indian Hills Country Club
Thomas Carroll
Annette Morrill
Sarah K. Cohn, Fresh Meadow Country Club
Maureen Christiansen
Alan Nahoum
Elizabeth Culligan, Hackensack Golf Club
Larry DeNike
Linda Nisselson
Pam Farber, Quaker Ridge Golf Club
Loren Donino
Michael O’Rourke
Barbara Finkelstein, Fresh Meadow Country Club
N. Barry Durfee
Jay Pollack
Gwen Fisher, Fenway Golf Club
Robert Flaum
Beth Post
Gail Flannagan, Westchester Country Club
Tara Fleming
Debra Prince
Linda Fox, Saint Andrew’s Golf Club
R. Fountaine
Russell Pruner
Garden State Women’s Golf Assocation
Aaron Fox
Meredith Ryan-Reid
Susan Gurtman, Greenbrook Country Club
George Fox
David Seidenberg
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Howard Golden
Barbara Sirna
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Barbara Israel
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Gregory Johnston
Linda Nisselson, Quaker Ridge Golf Club
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4 0 TH CURTI S CUP MATCH
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133
Nearest Competitor
54
Nearest Competitor
11
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2017 U.S. GIRLS’ JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP® BALL COUNT
113
131
Nearest Competitor
34
Nearest Competitor
11
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CLUBHOUSE OPERATIONS
VICE CHAIR
VICE CHAIR
Steven Slaven
Peter Rittmaster
GOLF SHOP/ MERCHANDISE
VOLUNTEER HQ
PRACTICE AREA GOLF CARTS/ MOBILITY SCOOTERS
Gail Tulcin
Ellen Davidowitz Jane Silver Shane CEREMONIES
Jane Bernstein Heather Knapp CLUB INFORMATION AMBASSADORS
Jesica Lopez
MARSHALS
Scott Gaffner Andrew Lese FORECADDIES
Mitch Katz Jeffrey Schwartz STANDARD BEARERS
Karen Eliezer
Jeff Weiss
Nancy Wolk
WALKING SCORERS
Joyce West SCOREBOARD & STATUS BOARDS
Andrew Potash Andrea Potash CADDIES
Steven Slaven
QUAKER RIDGE GOLF CLUB STAFF GENERAL MANAGER Robert Musich, CCM
HEAD GOLF PROFESSIONAL
Mario Guerra, PGA
COURSE SUPERINTENDENT
Tom Ashfield, CGCS
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER
CONTROLLER
Ann Freeman
UNITED STATES GOLF ASSOCIATION CHAMPIONSHIP DIRECTOR Shannon Rouillard
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Leslie Rogers
MANAGER, COMPETITIONS
4 0 TH CURTI S CUP MATCH
Andrew Liao
Richie Uva
Mario Guerra Susan Taylor MEDICAL
Scarsdale Volunteer Ambulance Corps. White Plains Hospital Dr. Erik Larsen Dr. Neil Roth SECURITY/ ADMISSIONS
Robert Tucker
THE CURTIS CUP CELEBRATES ITS 40TH COMPETITION. WHAT A COINCIDENCE. That is how long we have been insuring Quaker Ridge Golf Club. Ok, in truth, we have been taking care of Quaker Ridge for a few more years than 40. But who is counting? We are proud to be associated with Quaker Ridge and, in a small way, with the 40th Curtis Cup Match. Congratulations to Quaker Ridge and the members of both teams for being selected for this great amateur event.
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