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Garcia-Ogara, Mrs Emma
Club: Puerto de Hierro, Spain
Spanish Close champion 1956, 1958, 1965, 1969, 1971. Italian champion 1976. Vagliano Trophy match 1971. Captain Junior Spanish team 1969-1979. Captain Continent of Europe in Vagliano Trophy 1987. President Spanish Federation 1988, '1989. (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Garnham, Miss Kathleen Edith
b Walthamstow, Essex 27 AQug 1904 died 1990
Clubs: Naze, Frinton, Lady Golfers
Won Essex Championship 1932-33, French Championship 1933, Florida East Coast Championship 1933. Played for England in International matches 1933, Great Britain v France 1933 (From Golfer Handbook 1934)
see Obituary in Baltimore Sun

Garon, Mrs Marjory Ross
Clubs: Thorndon Park, Thorpe Hall
Won Essex Ladies Championship 1924 25 27 28 29 30. Runner-up in the British Ladies Championship 1926 and French Championship 1928. won St Georges Hill Trophy 1928-29, and the German Championship 1931-33. Played for England in International Matches 1927 28 29 30 31 33. and Great Britain v France 1931. (from Golfers Handbook 1934)

Garrett, Mrs Maureen (nee Ruttle)
D.O.B. 22 August 1922.
Club: Parkstone
French champion 1946. Curtis Cup 1948. Non-playing captain Curtis Cup and Vagliano Trophy 1960. Three times English captain in the Home Internationals. President of Ladies Golf Union 1982. Vice-President of the LGU from 1986. Recipient of the Bob Jones Award from the USGA in 1983 (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Garvey, Miss Philomena
D.O.B. 26 April '1927.
Club: County Louth
Finalist British championship 1946, 1953, 1960, 1963. Irish champion 1946 -1948,1950,1951, 1953-1955, 1957-1960, 1962, 1963, 1970. Worplesdon Foursomes (with P.Scrutton) 1955. British champion 1957. Curtis Cup 1948, 1950, 1952, 19:;4, 1956,1960. Turned professional in 1964 and re-instated as amateur in 1968. (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Gavin Mrs W. A. (see Mrs C. V. L Hooman)

Gemmill, Miss Alison
D.O.B. 13 September 1958
Club: Kilmarnock Barassie
Scottish Under 23 champion 1979. Ayrshire champion 1980-1984, 1986, 1987. 1989, 1991, 1994,1996,1997. Scottish champion 1981, 1985. Finalist Scottish championship 1986. Runner-up Laing Order of Merit 1991. Scottish International 1981-1991 Scottish Captain 1997. (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Gibbs, Mrs Carol Ann (nee Le Feuvre)
D.O.B. 18 October 1951
Club:Lee on Solent
Jersey champion 1966-1968. English Girls' champion 1969, 1970. British Girls' champion 1970. Hampshire champion 1970-- 1974,1976. South Eastern champion 1974. Dutch champion 1972. Semi-finalist British championship 1973. Won Avia Watches Foursomes (with Carole Caldwell) 1974. Final Midland championship 1989. Northants champion 1989-1992. European Team championships 1973. Vagliano Trophy match 1973. Toured Australia and Canada 1973. Curtis Cup 1974.(from Weetabix Records 1998)

Goldschmid, Mrs Isa (nee Bevione)
Club: Rome
Spanish champion 1952, Italian Open champion ten times between 1952 and 1969. Italian Closed champion on twenty two occasions. French champion 1975. Vagliano Trophy eight times; European Team championships 1964, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1972. Captain European Team Vagliano Trophy match 1977. (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Gorry, Miss Mary Philomena
D.O.B. 11 June 1952
Clubs: Baltinglass and The Grange.
Waterford Scratch Cup 1973, 1975. Irish Midland champion 1974, 1979. Wood brook Scratch Cup 1974,1981. South of Ireland Scratch Cup 1975, 1978. Irish champion 197.5, 1978. Lahinch Scratch Cup 1976. Semi-finalist British championship '1977. Ulster champion 1979. Connaught champion 1979. European Team championships 1971, 1973, 1975 1977, 1979. Vagliano Trophy match 1977. Captain Ireland European Team championships 1989.(from Weetabix Records 1998)

Gourlay, Miss Mary (Molly) Perceval
b Kempshott Park, Basingstoke
Clubs: Camberley Heath (Hon), Temple (Hon) Basingstoke (Hon), dorset (Hon) Sunningdale (Hon)
Won French open Champinoship 1923 1928 1929, runner-up 1932. Surrey Championship 1923 26 27 31-33. Belgian open Championship 1925 1926. English Ladies Championship 1926 1929 runner-up 1931, semi-finalist 1921 22 25 28. Semi-finalist British Ladies Championship 1924 1931, reached fifth round 1927 1929. Won Swedish Championship 1932. Represented England in International Matches 1923 1924 1927 28 29 31 32 33. Great Britain v France 1931 32 33, Great Britian v USA 1932. won London Ladies Foursomes partnered by Mrs P Wilson 1926. Partnered by Major Hezlet won Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes 1929 1930, runners-up 1926. Won Golf Illustrated Cup 1929. A member of the British Team that toured South Africa 1933(from Golfers Handbook 1934)

Gow, Miss Joan Mearns
b Prestwick, Ayrshire7th July 1902
clubs TRoon, Prestwick St Nicholas.
Won Ayrshire Ladies Championship 1926, runner-up 1927. Was in the final open Mixed Foursomes, Worplesdon 1925. Represente Scotland in Internaional Matches 1923 24 27 (from Golfers Handbook 1934)

Grant-Suttie, Miss Elsie
Clubs: Sunningdale, Longniddry, North Berwick
Won Ladies Championship 1910, semifinalist 1914. Won Scottish Ladies Championship 1911, runner-up 1925. represented Scotland in International matches 1908 10 11 14 22 23 (From Golfers Handbook 1934)

Greenlees, Mrs Walter
b Glasgow 18 Jan 1908.
Clubs: Troon, Ravenspark (Hon) and Machrihanish
Won Ayrshire Ladies Champinoship 1930 31, runner-up 1928 1933. Won west of Scotland Ladies Championship 1932, runner-up 1933 bronze medallist 1928 1931. Bronze Medalliit British Ladies Championship 1931 1933. Bronze Medallist Scottish Ladies Championship 1932. won the Anniversary Bowl 1932 and Margaret Scoular Buchanan Cup 1932. represented Scotland in International matches 1928 30 31 33. (from Golfers Handbook 1934)

Grice-Whittaker, Mrs Penny (nee Grice)
D.O.B. 11 October 1964
Turned professional 1985.
Finalist British Girls' championship 1981. Yorkshire champion 1981-1983. Finalist English Girls' championship 1982. English Girls' champion 1983. English Under 23 Stroke-play champion 1983. English Stroke-play champion 1984. Leading qualifier English championship 1984. English Intermediate champion 1984. European Junior Team championships '1983. Curtis Cup 1984. World Team championships 1984. Weetabix Women's British Open champion '1991. (from Weetabix Records 1998)

Guedalla, Mrs Herbert (nee Miss Edith Leitch)
b Silloth
Clubs: Carlisle and Silloth, Allington, Walton Heath, Le Touquet.
Won English Close Championship 1927. In 1908, 1910, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1927, 1928 1929, 1930 1933 repesrented England in the Ladies Internationals. Reached fifth round Ladies Championship 1912, semi-finalist 1929. In 1913 14 23 30 won the Championship of Middlesex, 1930 runner-up. semi-finalsit English Ladies Championship 1914 191929 and 1932. Reached semifinal round Canadian Ladies Championship 1921. Captained Middlesex County Ladies' 1921 24 25 26. Reached the last eight in American Ladies Championship 1921 and 1923. Partnered by Mrs P Garon, won Eve Scratch Foursomes 1928 1929, and with Miss Reguart, the Bystander Foursomes 1933. Won KitKat Scratch Meda, International Meeting at Ranelagh 1933 (from Golfers Handbook 1934)

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