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Tiverton Golf Club
Post Hill
Tiverton
EX16 4NE

EMail:
TivertonGolfClub@lineone.net

General Manager:
  Richard Jessop
  01884 252187

Professional:
  Mike Hawton
  01884 254836

Caterer:
  Andy Lovell
  01884 252114

Bar Steward:
  Colin Taylor
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Information line:
  01884 242952

Fax:
  01884 251607

Lady Heathcoat Amory 

English ladies’s champion- 1920, 21, 22, 23, 24

British ladies’s champion- 1922, 24, 25, 29

Club president- 1972 – 1997

Lady Heathcoat Amory, formerly Joyce Wethered, was arguably the greatest woman golfer of all time.  She received only one lesson, from Tom Lyle, the professional at Bude, though she occasionally caught glimpses of such great champions as Harry Varden and J H Taylor.  In the holidays she played at Dartmouth with her brother, Roger, who won the British Amateur in 1923.
Her swing was a model of balance and grace.  Ideally, she used to say; nothing could dislodge her from her right foot at the top of her back swing or from her left at the finish of her follow through.  The most remarkable feature of her game was her accuracy with iron shots.

She did not enter championship golf until 1920, when a friend persuaded her to play in the English Ladies Championship at Sheringham, in Norfolk.  At Sheringham, she won her way to the final where she met ‘Cecil’ Leitch. She was six down with only sixteen holes to play, but through superb concentration, and as always by playing the course rather than the person, she came back to win 2 and 1
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In 1925 Joyce Wethered retired from competition, but was tempted back to play in the Ladies Open of 1929 on her favourite course, the old course at St. Andrews. In the final she met the American champion Glenna Collett in a memorable contest.  Joyce was five down after only nine holes, her opponent having gone out in 34, but clawed her way back to win 3 and 1.

She was elected the first President of the English Ladies’ Golf Association (ELGA) and was admitted to Americas Hall of fame.  Sadly Lady Joyce died in 1997 just after her 96th birthday.
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