The Spirit of Women’s Golf History
This project gives voice and visibility to the women who built the foundations of this game quietly — through service, excellence, and love of golf itself — without expectation of recognition. For the first time, they are placed in the historical record not as side notes, but as the backbone of the sport.
It seeks to bridge generations, showing that honouring tradition and welcoming progress are not opposites but part of the same story. In doing so, it celebrates the courage, commitment, and companionship that continue to define women’s golf today.
From early pioneers to post-war rebuilding.
Women’s golf developed from local competitions on Scottish links into an organised, international movement. Through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, golfers built clubs, created rules, and proved that women could both play and govern the game. By the eve of the Second World War, tens of thousands of women were members of clubs across Britain, the Commonwealth, and North America — a level of participation that would not be equalled again for decades.