Cliff Schrock
GOLF WRITER // GENERAL EDITORIAL SPECIALIST
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This Day in Golf History

A page that will list golf history, and the people and events that comprise it in the form of This Day in Golf or This Week in Golf.

This Day in Golf--July 3

The first women's national intercollegiate golf championship is completed on this date in 1941, at the Ohio State University Golf Course, which had opened the year before. Eleanor Dudley of the University of Alabama beat 25 other players, winning the championship final, 4 and 2, over Ed Dell Wortz. The tournament was not played again until 1946 after World War II. The Associated Press story began: "The nation's golfing co-eds crowned their first queen today--Eleanor Dudley of Chicago, who was graduated only a few days ago by the University of Alabama. The 23-year-old, former Illinois and Western Junior champion, won the title with a 4 and 2 victory over Eddell [sic] Wortz of Fort Smith, Ark., freshman at Stephens College, in the 18 hole final of the first women's national intercollegiate tournament on the Ohio State University course."

 

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