3-082-918 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Ladies' Golf Championship at Portrush, Ireland, 1895. '"Fore"; Captain Adair presenting the Gold Medal to Lady Margaret Scott; Lady Scott driving from the first tee; Lady Scott; The Himalayas - the finish of the Championship. The popularity of golf is no less great among women than among men. One of the advantages of the game is, indeed, the participation of both sexes in pleasant rivalry. Doctors bear testimony to the healthfulness of the sport...on Friday, May 24, Lady Margaret Scott retained the championship. In the final she was successful in vanquishing Miss Lythgoe...Lady Scott is the second daughter of the Earl of Eldon, and is twenty years old. She has inherited her father's love of golf, and from very youthful days has enjoyed the pleasures of this sport in which she has become so remarkablv skilful. At the family seat, Stowell Park, Northleach, in Gloucestershire, Lady Margaret has had every opportunity of gaining proficiency in golf by constant practice. She has five brothers and one sister, and most of them have athletic tastes...Perhaps in the future the Parliamentary Golf Handicap may be won by a lady member of the House of Commons, and thus signalise the progress of the sex in politics as well as in sport'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.