Enid Wilson – AGW Member 1961 – 1996

Enid Wilson, British ladies champion (1931-33), c1930s, with her dog Stanley. She would later become women’s golf correspondent for The Telegraph. (Photo by Sarah Fabian-Baddiel/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Enid Wilson ( Born at Stone Broom, near Alfreton, Derbyshire 15th March, 1910 and passed away 14th January, 1996) was an English amateur golfer and third (?) women member in AGW history

She was the daughter of Thomas Francis Wilson, physician and surgeon, and his wife Beatrice Mary Williams. She was sent to Harrogate Ladies’ College but was later expelled, being told that she was ‘danmed nuisance’. (Read more below in extract from ‘Women in Golf)

Enid was a semi-finalist at her first British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship in 1927 and won the Championship three years in a row between 1931 and 1933.

Competing in the 1931 U.S. Women’s Amateur, Wilson was eliminated in the semi-finals by ultimate champion Helen Hicks. She got some measure of satisfaction the next year when she beat Hicks 2 & 1 in their match during the first ever Curtis Cup held at the Wentworth Golf Club, in Surrey, England. She returned to the U.S. for the 1932 Amateur but went out in the quarter-final. In the 1933 U.S. Amateur she lost in the semi-finals to the ultimate tournament champion Virginia Van Wie but won the medal for lowest round with a record-setting score.

In 1933, Wilson partnered with Walter Hagen to play a match at the Bruntsfield Links in Edinburgh, Scotland. She co-wrote So That’s What I Do! with Robert Allen Lewis that was published in 1935. She also wrote the section on women’s golf in the 1952 book A History of Golf in Britain (1990 Reprint Ailsa Inc.) edited by golf writer Bernard Darwin and contributed to by several notables from the world of British men’s golf. As well, she wrote ”A Gallery of Women Golfers with the foreword by Bernard Darwin that was published in 1961 in London by Country Life Ltd..

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Won Britsih Ladies Championship 1931-32-33, semi-finalsit 1927, 28 30. Won Englsih Close Championship 1928 1930, runner-up 1927. Won Girls Open Championship 1925. Won Midland Ladies Championship 1926,28,29, 30

Represented GB & I in the inaugural 1932 Curtis Cup at Wentworth

VIDEO OF ENID WILSON’S THIRD STRAIGHT WOMEN’S AMATEUR C’SHIP IN 1933 AT GLENEAGLES – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BozbaCOtCiQ

6th October 1938: British golfer Henry Cotton (right) walking from the first tee during a charity golf match against three women (left to right) Miss Enid Wilson, Madame R Lacoste and Lady Heathcoat-Amory, at Maylands Golf Course near Romford, Essex. (Photo by J. A. Hampton/Topical Press Agency/Getty Images)

Extract from:-

Women in Golf: The Players, the History, and the Future of the Sport

By David L. Hudson

Enid Wilson of Great Britain, attending the Curtis Cup golf competition held at the Muirfield Golf Links in Gullane, Scotland, circa 1984. (Photo by Phil Sheldon/Popperfoto via Getty Images/Getty Images)