Genevieve Hecker was an American

United States

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 amateur golf

Golf

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er. A member of the Essex County Country Club in West Orange, New Jersey

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, she won New York City

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's Metropolitan Golf Championship in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1906.

Biography

Hecker was born in 1884. In October 1901, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur at the Baltusrol Golf Club

Baltusrol Golf Club

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 in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey

Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey

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. She also tied with Margaret Curtis

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 and two others for the championship's lowest qualifying score. The following year she won the U.S. Amateur again on a course at The Country Club

The Country Club

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 in Brookline, Massachusetts

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.

In 1903, Hecker married Charles T. Stout and in 1904 she published Golf for Women, the first book ever written exclusively for female golfers. The book included a chapter by Irish

Irish people

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 golfer Rhona Adair

Rhona Adair

Rhona K. Adair was a British golf champion.Born in Ireland, along with May Hezlet Rhona Adair is the most famous Irish golfer from the turn of the 20th century. She was 17 years of age when she played in her first British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1895. She won the prestigious event in...

 who won four straight Irish Ladies Close Championships and the 1900 and 1903 British Ladies Amateurs.

Hecker died on July 29, 1960.