Dorothy Campbell
Dorothy Iona Campbell ( born March 24, 1883 in North Berwick, Scotland, † March 20, 1945 in Yemassee, South Carolina) was the first internationally dominant golfer.
Dorothy Campbell was born into a Scottish golfer and family visited so early on different golf clubs. She was the first woman to both the United States Women 's Amateur Golf Championship, the British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship and the Canadian Women 's Amateur Golf Championship won.
Throughout her career she has won eleven national amateur championships in the United States, Canada, Scotland and England, the last in 1924 at the age of 41 years. After she had moved in 1910 to Canada, 1913, the U.S. was already their new home. In the same year, she married Jack V. Hurd there, which is why they have some of their victories as Mrs JV Hurd or as Dorothy Hurd won. The marriage was divorced in 1923. In 1937, she married again. But the marriage with Edward Howe was divorced in 1943. In her last years she was known because of their renewed wedding as Dorothy Howe. Dorothy Cambell died in 1945 when their vehicle collided while crossing a railroad crossing in Yemassee, South Carolina with a train.
In 1978, she was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.