Cecil Leitch
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amateur golf
Golf
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er. She was born in Silloth
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, Cumberland
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, England
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, the daughter of a local physician
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and one of three sisters who excelled at the game of golf.
Biography
In 1914 she won the first of her four British Ladies Amateurs, taking the title from Muriel DoddMuriel Dodd
Muriel Dodd was an English amateur golfer. She held the British and Canadian titles in 1913.-Biography:Dodd was the winner of the 1913 British Ladies Amateur held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, taking the title from Gladys Ravenscroft. She also won the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1913....
. Her opportunity to possibly win several more was interrupted for five years during World War I
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. When the Championship was restarted after the war, she won her second straight title then the following year made it three in a row. In the Championship finals on six occasions, in 1926 she won her fourth British title, a record she shares with Joyce Wethered
Joyce Wethered
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Cecil Leitch retired having won 12 national titles plus she captured five French Ladies Amateurs and one Canadian Women's Amateur
Canadian Women's Amateur
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. She wrote two books on golf, the first titled Golf was published in 1922 in Philadelphia and London
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by J. B. Lippincott Co.
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and the second titled Golf Simplified published in London by Thornton Butterworth in 1924.