1970 - Team Team Events
The winners in the category "1970 - Team Team Events" are shown in the table below, which also includes relevant information on venues, scores and prize money.
Team Events
LGU / USGA
The Curtis Cup (16th). USA vs Gt Britain & Ireland. Eight top women amateurs per team competing in 2x three foursomes and 2x six singles. Result: USA 11.5, GB&I 6.5. Non-playing captains: Carolyn Cudone (USA); Jeanne Bisgood (Eng/GB&I). [Brae Burn CC, West Newton, Massachusetts].
FRIDAY SINGLES (six 18-hole matches; home player stated first): Jane Bastanchury bt Dinah Oxley (Eng) 5&3; Martha Wilkinson bt Ann Irvin (Eng) 1 hope; Shelley Hamlin halved with Belle McCorkindale Robertson (Scot); Phyllis Preuss lost to Mary McKenna (Ire) 5&4; Nancy Hager bt Margaret Pickard (Eng) 5&4; Alice Dye bt Julia Greenhalgh (Eng) 1 hole.
SATURDAY SINGLES (six 18-hole matches): Bastanchury bt Irvin 4&3; Hamlin halved with Oxley; Preuss bt Robertson 1 hole; Wilkinson lost to Greenhalgh 6&4; Hager lost to Mary Everard (Eng) 4&3; Cindy Hill bt McKenna 2&1.
Jane Fassinger (USA) did not play in the singles. In addition to the non-playing captains the USA team comprised eight players, the GB&I team seven players.
NOTE: Alice Dye (née O'Neal), together with her husband Paul "Pete" Dye Jr, became an accomplished golf course designer and the first woman president of the American Society of Golf Course Architects.
Team Events
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Played as the World Cup of Golf (72-hole stroke play team event based on total scores of both players). Second-placed Roberto De Vicenzo & Vicente Fernandez (Arg) finished 10 shots behind Bruce Devlin & David Graham (Aus), who shared the $2,000 first prize. Best individual score: Roberto De Vincenzo (269). [Jockey Club, Buenos Aires, Argentina].
Chevron Championship: Carlton Woods near Houston in Texas provides the stage for the first women’s major championship of 2025, where Nelly Korda defends her title. (April 24-27).
Soudal Open: successor to the Belgian Open, the Soudal Open takes place on the quiet, wooded North course of Rinkven Golfclub. Belgian stars Thomas Pieters and Nicolas Colsaerts will be vying for top honours. (May 22-25).
Rory McIlroy: with his 2025 win in The Masters, Rory joined the pantheon of golfing greats who have achieved a career Grand Slam of men’s majors ... Gene Sarazen, Ben Hogan, Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods are the only others in this select band.
Bernhard Langer: he may have played in his last Masters Tournament, but the 67-year-old German will be trying to extend his own record, and win a 13th senior major title at the 36th Regions Tradition. (May 15-18).
Marco Simone Golf & Country Club: With a clubhouse that might befit a Roman Emperor, and a golf course to match, you can be sure of a memorable outing at Rome's most talked about golf facility.
Jim Fazio's original layout was much changed to create a modern Ryder Cup course ... now one of the Eternal City's (and Italy's) most revered.
Here at Prince’s Golf Club you'll find 27 excellent holes of links golf. Just over the fence and sharing similar terrain is Royal St George’s; but Prince’s is far from overshadowed by its venerable neighbour. The three nine-hole loops at Prince's, laid out over gently undulating terrain, are sure to bring a smile of satisfaction to all lovers of links golf.
Stay&Play at Prince's: excellent onsite Lodge accommodation available
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