Gladys Ravenscroft was a British

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 amateur golf

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er.

Biography

She was born in Cheshire, England in 1888. Ravenscroft won the 1912 British Ladies Amateur at Turnberry

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 in Scotland

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. In 1913 she traveled to Wilmington, Delaware

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 to win the U.S. Women's Amateur. She defeated Muriel Dodd

Muriel Dodd

Muriel Dodd was an English amateur golfer. She held the British and Canadian titles in 1913.-Biography:Dodd was the winner of the 1913 British Ladies Amateur held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, taking the title from Gladys Ravenscroft. She also won the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1913....

, then played against Marion Hollins

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 in the finals. She was the second competitor to simultaneously hold both the American and British titles.

Gladys Ravenscroft married Temple Dobell and resided in Wirral

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, England

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. With the onset of World War I

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during which she did volunteer service. At the end of the war, she continued competing and winning the Cheshire ladies amateur championship on more than one occasion.

She died in 1960.