Margaret Abbott

Margaret Ives Abbott ( born June 15, 1878 in Calcutta, † June 10, 1955 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) was the victory in the women's golf tournament at the Olympic Games in 1900 first American, second Olympic champion ever and only Olympic gold medalist in golf.

Abbott was the daughter of Mary Ives Abbott, a Chicago writer and literary critic, who participated at the Olympic golf tournament with her daughter and finished seventh.

It began in 1897 with the game of golf at the Chicago Golf Club, the oldest 18 -Bahn Golf Club of the United States, where she worked with some of the best golf players, including the first U.S. Open champion of the United States, Charles B. Macdonald, coached. 1898 she reached a handicap of two and won some ladies golf tournaments, she was regarded as perhaps the best player in the region in those years. 1898 Margaret and her mother Mary traveled to Paris, on the one hand to experience the World 's Fair in 1900 to study on the other, the new art of the city. They studied with Degas and Rodin, but also regularly took part in golf competitions in Paris and surroundings.

So she signed up for the Olympic golf tournament, but it is unknown whether they even knew that the tournament was one of the Olympic Games. It is considered possible that they never knew until her death that she was Olympic champion.

The tournament, which was only 9 holes, Abbott was able to win by two strokes ahead of runner-up for themselves. That all medals were won by Americans, is also attributed to the fact that many French women appeared in high-heeled shoes and otherwise for golf little appropriate clothing.

After her Olympic victory Abbott also won the French Open golf championships for women before they returned to the U.S. in 1902.

Upon her return to the United States, she married the satirist Finley Peter Dunne New York, whom she had met on the trip to Paris and went to live with him to New York.

Her son Philip Dunne was a significant screenwriter in Hollywood, the 1942 and 1952 nominated for each of the two screenwriting Oscars and known for his public opposition to the blacklist.

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  • Paula Welch: Search for Margaret Abbott, Olympic Review, December 1982 no. 182 pp. 752-754.
  • Margaret Abbott at Sports- Reference.com (English)
  • Olympic champion (Golf)
  • Olympian (United States)
  • Golfer ( United States)
  • Person (Kolkata )
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1955
  • Woman
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