North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship
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The North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship is an annual golf
Golf
Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes....

 tournament held since 1903 at the Pinehurst Resort
Pinehurst Resort
Pinehurst Resort is a historic upmarket golf resort at Pinehurst, North Carolina, USA. It has hosted a number of prestigious golf tournaments.-History:...

 in Pinehurst, North Carolina
Pinehurst, North Carolina
Pinehurst is a village in Moore County, North Carolina, United States. The population was 9,706 at the 2000 census. It is the location of the Pinehurst Resort, venue of the 1936 PGA Championship, the 1951 Ryder Cup. The host site for the 1999, 2005,& 2014 U.S. Open Golf Championships, the 2008 U.S....

. An invitational tournament, participants are chosen based upon their performance in national amateur championships and overall competitive record.

Winners

  • 2011 Danielle Kang
    Danielle Kang
    Danielle Kang is an American professional golfer. As an amateur, she won the U.S. Women's Amateur twice, in 2010 and 2011.-Personal:Kang was born in San Francisco, California to K.S. Kang and Grace Lee...

  • 2010 Cydney Clanton
  • 2009 Amelia Lewis
  • 2008 Kristie Smith
    Kristie Smith
    Kristie Lynn Smith is an Australian professional golfer who plays on the Futures Tour and the Ladies European Tour.Prior to turning professional, Smith was a member of the Golf Australia National Squad and travels the country, and the world, competing in amateur golf events...

  • 2007 Alison Walshe
  • 2006 Jenny Suh
  • 2005 Yani Tseng
    Yani Tseng
    Yani Tseng is a Taiwanese professional golfer currently playing on the U.S.-based LPGA Tour. She is the youngest player ever, male or female, to win five major championships and is currently ranked number 1 in the Women's World Golf Rankings....

  • 2004 Morgan Pressel
    Morgan Pressel
    Morgan Pressel is an American professional golfer, currently playing on the LPGA Tour. She turned pro at age 17 and is the youngest-ever winner of a modern LPGA major championship. Pressel has reached as high as fourth in the world rankings....

  • 2003 Brittany Lang
    Brittany Lang
    Brittany Lang is an American professional golfer currently playing on the LPGA Tour.-Amateur career:Born in Richmond, Virginia and raised in McKinney, Texas, Lang had a decorated amateur career. She won eight American Junior Golf Association events and was a two-time First-Team Polo Golf Junior...

  • 2002 May Wood
  • 2001 Meredith Duncan
    Meredith Duncan
    Meredith Duncan is an American professional golfer.Duncan was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. She won the Women's Western Amateur in 2000 and 2001. She won the 2001 North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst. She followed this up by capturing that year's U.S...

  • 2000 Candy Hannemann
  • 1999 Beth Bauer
    Beth Bauer
    Beth Bauer is an American professional golfer.Bauer was born in Largo, Florida. As an amateur, she won the 1997 U.S. Girls' Junior and in 1998 and 1999 she earned back-to-back victories at the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. She played on the U.S...

  • 1998 Beth Bauer
    Beth Bauer
    Beth Bauer is an American professional golfer.Bauer was born in Largo, Florida. As an amateur, she won the 1997 U.S. Girls' Junior and in 1998 and 1999 she earned back-to-back victories at the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst Resort in North Carolina. She played on the U.S...

  • 1997 Kerry Postillon
  • 1996 Kristen Samp
  • 1995 Laura Philo
  • 1994 Stephanie Neill
  • 1993 Emilee Klein
    Emilee Klein
    Emilee Klein is an American professional golfer and college golf coach who played on the LPGA Tour.Klein was born in Santa Monica, California and grew up in Sherman Oaks, California. She had a successful amateur career winning several tournaments including the 1991 U.S. Girls' Junior...

  • 1992 Stephanie Sparks
    Stephanie Sparks
    Stephanie Sparks is an on-air personality at The Golf Channel and a former golfer, whose best years in golf came as an amateur.-Golfer:...

  • 1991 Kelly Robbins
  • 1990 Brandie Burton
  • 1989 Page Marsh
  • 1988 Donna Andrews
  • 1987 Carol Semple Thompson
  • 1986 Leslie Shannon
  • 1985 Lee Ann Hammack
  • 1984 Susan Pager
  • 1983 Anne Quast Sander
  • 1982 Anne Quast Sander
  • 1981 Patti Rizzo
    Patti Rizzo
    Patrice "Patti" Rizzo is an American professional golfer and golf instructor.Rizzo was born in Hollywood, Florida. A collegiate All-American at the University of Miami, among her significant victories as an amateur were the Eastern Women's Amateur and Mexican Amateur in 1980, a year when she was...

  • 1980 Charlotte Montgomery
  • 1979 Julie Gumlia
  • 1978 Cathy Sherk
    Cathy Sherk
    Cathy Sherk is a Canadian golf champion and professional golf coach and instructor.-Golfing career:Sherk won the 1977 Canadian Women's Amateur and was runner-up to Beth Daniel at the U.S. Women's Amateur...

  • 1977 Marcia Dolan
  • 1976 Carol Semple
    Carol Semple
    Carol Semple is an American amateur golfer.Semple was born in Sewickley, Pennsylvania. She is from a prominent golfing family; her father served as president of the United States Golf Association in 1974 and 1975. Her mother played competitive golf and served on various USGA committees for many...

  • 1975 Cynthia Hill
  • 1974 Marlene Stewart
    Marlene Streit
    Marlene Stewart Streit, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.She was born in Cereal, Alberta. She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario...

  • 1973 Beth Barry
  • 1972 Jane Bastanchury Booth
  • 1971 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1970 Hollis Stacy
    Hollis Stacy
    Hollis Stacy is an American professional golfer. She became a member of the LPGA Tour in 1974, winning four major championships and 18 LPGA Tour events. She was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in November 2011 in the veterans category and will be inducted in May 2012.-Amateur career:Stacy...

  • 1969 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1968 Alice Dye
    Alice Dye
    Alice Dye is an American golf champion and golf course designer known as the "First Lady" of golf architecture in the United States....

  • 1967 Phyllis Preuss
    Phyllis Preuss
    Phyllis A. Preuss is an American amateur golfer. She was runner-up to Anne Quast at the 1961 U.S. Women's Amateur and earned the Medal for the lowest round at the 1967 Amateur.Preuss was born in Detroit, Michigan....

  • 1966 Nancy Roth Syms
  • 1965 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1964 Phyllis Preuss
    Phyllis Preuss
    Phyllis A. Preuss is an American amateur golfer. She was runner-up to Anne Quast at the 1961 U.S. Women's Amateur and earned the Medal for the lowest round at the 1967 Amateur.Preuss was born in Detroit, Michigan....

  • 1963 Nancy Roth
  • 1962 Clifford Ann Creed
    Clifford Ann Creed
    Clifford Ann Creed is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Creed was born in Alexandria, Louisiana. She graduated from Lamar Tech in 1960 with a degree in physical education....

  • 1961 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1960 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1959 Ann Casey Johnstone
  • 1958 Carolyn Cudone
    Carolyn Cudone
    Carolyn Cassidy Cudone was an American amateur golfer.Raised in Staten Island, New York, her mother played golf and encouraged Cudone to play the game. Her amateur golfing career was successful but she is best known for her performance as a seniors' golfer.Sometimes recorded as Mrs. Philip J...

  • 1957 Barbara McIntire
    Barbara McIntire
    Barbara Joy McIntire is an American golfer.McIntire was born in Toledo, Ohio. Living in Florida, she began playing golf as a young girl and at age 15 made a splash at the 1950 U.S...

  • 1956 Marlene Stewart
    Marlene Streit
    Marlene Stewart Streit, OC, O.Ont is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.She was born in Cereal, Alberta. She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario...

  • 1955 Wiffi Smith
    Wiffi Smith
    Margaret "Wiffi" Smith is an American professional golfer who played on the LPGA Tour.Smith was born in Redlands, California. She moved to Mexico when she was 11 years old and learned to play golf there. She won several amateur events including the 1954 U.S. Girls' Junior and the 1956 British...

  • 1954 Joyce Ziske
    Joyce Ziske
    Joyce Ziske is an American professional golfer. She played on the LPGA Tour from 1955 to 1960 and in 1960 she won the Women's Western Open which was one of the LPGA major championships at that time. She had her best finish in the U.S. Women's Open that same year, placing second...

  • 1953 Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan Lucey is an American amateur golfer who won the 1950, 1951, and 1953 North and South Women's Amateur. As well, she won the 1951 Titleholders Championship, then one of the LPGA Tour's major championships. She was a member of Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Connecticut...

  • 1952 Barbara Romack
    Barbara Romack
    Barbara Gaile Romack is an American professional golfer.Romack was born in Sacramento, California. She won the North and South Women's Amateur at Pinehurst in 1952, the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1953, and then in 1954, she defeated Mickey Wright in the finals to win the U.S. Women's Amateur...

  • 1951 Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan Lucey is an American amateur golfer who won the 1950, 1951, and 1953 North and South Women's Amateur. As well, she won the 1951 Titleholders Championship, then one of the LPGA Tour's major championships. She was a member of Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Connecticut...

  • 1950 Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan
    Pat O'Sullivan Lucey is an American amateur golfer who won the 1950, 1951, and 1953 North and South Women's Amateur. As well, she won the 1951 Titleholders Championship, then one of the LPGA Tour's major championships. She was a member of Race Brook Country Club in Orange, Connecticut...

  • 1949 Peggy Kirk
  • 1948 Louise Suggs
    Louise Suggs
    Mae Louise Suggs is a retired professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.-Amateur career:Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager...

  • 1947 Babe Zaharias
    Babe Zaharias
    Mildred Ella "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias was an American athlete who achieved outstanding success in golf, basketball, and track and field...

  • 1946 Louise Suggs
    Louise Suggs
    Mae Louise Suggs is a retired professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.-Amateur career:Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager...

  • 1945 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1944 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1943 Dorothy Kirby
    Dorothy Kirby
    Mary Dorothy Kirby was an American golf champion and sportscaster.Born in West Point, Georgia, her family moved to Atlanta when she was ten. At the age of thirteen Dorothy Kirby's victory at the 1933 Georgia Women's Amateur Championship made her the youngest female golfer to ever win a state...

  • 1942 Louise Suggs
    Louise Suggs
    Mae Louise Suggs is a retired professional golfer, one of the founders of the LPGA Tour and thus modern ladies' golf.-Amateur career:Born in Atlanta, Suggs had a very successful amateur career, beginning as a teenager...

  • 1941 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1940 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1939 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1938 Jane Cothran
  • 1937 Estelle Lawson Page
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1936 Deborah Verry
  • 1935 Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Lawson
    Estelle Page, née Lawson was an American amateur golfer. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill....

  • 1934 Charlotte Glutting
  • 1933 Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt was an American amateur golfer and reporter for the New York Times.Born in New York City, Orcutt made it to the finals of the 1927 U.S. Women's Amateur but lost to Miriam Burns Horn. In 1928 and 1931 she won the tournament Medal for the lowest score and in 1932 tied for the honor....

  • 1932 Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt was an American amateur golfer and reporter for the New York Times.Born in New York City, Orcutt made it to the finals of the 1927 U.S. Women's Amateur but lost to Miriam Burns Horn. In 1928 and 1931 she won the tournament Medal for the lowest score and in 1932 tied for the honor....

  • 1931 Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt
    Maureen Orcutt was an American amateur golfer and reporter for the New York Times.Born in New York City, Orcutt made it to the finals of the 1927 U.S. Women's Amateur but lost to Miriam Burns Horn. In 1928 and 1931 she won the tournament Medal for the lowest score and in 1932 tied for the honor....

  • 1930 Glenna Collett
  • 1929 Glenna Collett
  • 1928 Opal Hill
    Opal Hill
    Opal S. Trout Hill was an American professional golfer. She won the Women's Western Open in 1935 and 1936....

  • 1927 Glenna Collett
  • 1926 Louise Fordyce
  • 1925 Mrs. Melville Jones
  • 1924 Glenna Collett
  • 1923 Glenna Collett
  • 1922 Glenna Collett
  • 1921 Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Iona Campbell was the first internationally dominant female golfer. She was also known in her lifetime as Dorothy Hurd, Mrs. J.V. Hurd and as Dorothy Howe...

  • 1920 Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Iona Campbell was the first internationally dominant female golfer. She was also known in her lifetime as Dorothy Hurd, Mrs. J.V. Hurd and as Dorothy Howe...

  • 1919 Nonna Barlow
  • 1918 Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Campbell
    Dorothy Iona Campbell was the first internationally dominant female golfer. She was also known in her lifetime as Dorothy Hurd, Mrs. J.V. Hurd and as Dorothy Howe...

  • 1917 Elaine Rosenthal
  • 1916 Nonna Barlow
  • 1915 Nonna Barlow
  • 1914 Florence L. Harvey
  • 1913 Lillian B. Hyde
  • 1912 Mrs. J. Raymond Price
  • 1911 Louise Elkins
  • 1910 Florence Vanderbeck
  • 1909 Mary Fownes
  • 1908 Julia R. Mix
  • 1907 Molly B. Adams
  • 1906 Myra D. Paterson
  • 1905 Houghton Dutton
  • 1904 Myra D. Paterson
  • 1903 Myra D. Paterson
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