This Day in Golf--Nov. 24

Simone Thion de la Chaume, aka Madame Rene Lacoste, was born on this date in 1908.  She was an accomplished French amateur, won the French Ladies Open six times in the 1920s and '30s, and won the British Girls Amateur in 1924 and British Ladies Amateur in 1927, the first foreigner to do so in both. The wife of tennis champion Rene, she was the mother of Catherine Lacoste, who would improve upon her mother's record in golf in the 1960s and '70s.