Championships - Curtis Cup 2008
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Phyllis Wylie (97), past player holds onto the Curtis Cup.
27.05.2008
Curtis Cup Past Players reunion takes place in the R&A Clubhouse
The Curtis Cup stars of yesteryear have arrived in St Andrews for a grand reunion with team-mates and opponents from the past at this year’s staging of the biennial transatlantic match between Great Britain & Ireland and the United States over the Old Course from May 30 to June 1.Many great names from the past attended the Past Curtis Cup Players’ Dinner. The guest list included those who are not taking part in the Past Players’ Match, including Phyllis Wylie, at 97 the oldest surviving Curtis Cup player from either side of the Atlantic. Her 98th birthday is in September.
Phyllis lives in Troon. It was as Phyllis Wade, the English champion of 1934, that she played for GB&I in the fourth Curtis Cup match – at Essex Golf Club, Manchester, Massachusetts in 1938 when transatlantic crossings were made by boat and took rather longer than today.
Past Team Members attending the 2008 Curtis Cup include;
Meriam Bailey Leeke, Ann Howard
Diane Bailey MBE, Ann Irvin
Sally Barber, Bridget Jackson MBE
Barbara Barrow, Martha Kirouac
Linda Bayman, Anne Laing
Judy Bell, Martha Lang
Pamela Benka, Joan Lawrence MBE
Jeanne Bisgood, Wilma Leburn
Elizabeth Boatman OBE, Maureen Madill
Angela Bonallack, Barbara McIntire
Jane Booth, Beverley New
Kellee Booth, Susie O'Brien
Mary Budke, Julie Otto
Ita Butler, Margaret Pickard
Suzanne Cadden, Phyllis Preuss
Carole Caldwell, Elaine Ratcliffe
Jane Connachan, Maureen Richmond
Claire Coughlan, Belle Robertson
Patricia Cornett, Anne Sander
Carolyn Cudone, Vivien Saunders
Alison Davidson, Anne Smith
Tara Delaney, Gillian Stewart
Elaine Farquharson-Black, Leslie Shannon Stewart
Mary Everard, Vicki Thomas
Maureen Garrett, Jill Thornhill
Carol Gibbs, Janette Wright
Mary Hafeman, Phyllis Wylie
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