Genevieve Hecker

Genevieve Hecker

Genevieve Hecker (1884 - 1960) was an American golf champion. A member of the Essex County Country Club in West Orange, New Jersey, she won New York City's Metropolitan Golf Championship in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1906.

In October 1901, she won the United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey. She also tied with Margaret Curtis and two others for the championship's lowest qualifying score. The following year she won the U.S. Championship again on a course at The Country Club in Brookline, Massachusetts.

In 1903 Genevieve Hecker married Charles T. Stout and in 1904 she published "Golf for Women", the first book ever written exclusively for female golfers. The book included a chapter by Irish golfer Rhona Adair who won four straight Irish Ladies Close Championships and was the 1900 and 1903 British Ladies Amateur Golf Champion.

References

* "Golf for Women" (1904) Baker & Taylor, Inc., New York republished in 2001 as part of the Legacy Golf series (ISBN 1-894827-01-5)


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