Polly Ann Riley was an American amateur golf

Golf

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Riley won over 100 tournaments in her career. Although she remained an amateur throughout her career, she won the first LPGA Tour

LPGA

The LPGA, in full the Ladies Professional Golf Association, is an American organization for female professional golfers. The organization, whose headquarters is in Daytona Beach, Florida, is best known for running the LPGA Tour, a series of weekly golf tournaments for elite female golfers from...

 event, the 1950 Tampa Open

Tampa Women's Open

The Tampa Women's Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1947 to 1960. It was played at the Palma Ceia Golf & Country Club in Tampa, Florida. The 1950 event was the first official event on the LPGA Tour...

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Riley was runner-up in the 1953 U.S. Women's Amateur

United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship

The U.S. Women's Amateur is the leading golf tournament in the United States for female amateur golfers. It is played annually and is one of the 13 United States national golf championships organized by the United States Golf Association . Female amateurs from all nations are eligible to compete...

 to Mary Lena Faulk

Mary Lena Faulk

Mary Lena Faulk was an American professional golfer.Faulk was born in Chipley, Florida but at the age of 14 moved to Thomasville, Georgia where she won three consecutive Georgia Women's Amateur Matchplay Championships from 1946 to 1948.In 1953, Faulk won the U.S. Women's Amateur. In 1954 she was...

. She played on the U.S. Curtis Cup

Curtis Cup

The Curtis Cup is the best known team trophy for women amateur golfers, awarded in the biennial Curtis Cup Match . It is co-organised by the United States Golf Association and the Ladies Golf Union and is contested by teams representing the United States and "Great Britain and Ireland"...

 teams six times (1948, 1950, 1952, 1954, 1956, 1958) and was the captain in 1962.

Tournament wins

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• 1947 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur
• 1948 Women's Southern Amateur, Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Women's Texas Open
• 1950 Women's Southern Amateur, Women's Western Amateur
  Women's Western Amateur
  The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the United States, having been played since 1901...
  
  , Tampa Open
  Tampa Women's Open
  The Tampa Women's Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA Tour from 1947 to 1960. It was played at the Palma Ceia Golf & Country Club in Tampa, Florida. The 1950 event was the first official event on the LPGA Tour...
  
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• 1951 Women's Southern Amateur
• 1952 Women's Western Amateur
  Women's Western Amateur
  The Women's Western Amateur is an amateur golf tournament for women. It is organized by the Women's Western Golf Association, which also organized the Women's Western Open from 1930 to 1967. It is one of the oldest women's amateur tournaments in the United States, having been played since 1901...
  
  
• 1953 Women's Southern Amateur
• 1954 Women's Southern Amateur
• 1955 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur, Women's Texas Open
• 1961 Women's Southern Amateur