Online Q&A with Stephen Proctor, golf historian and writer.

About the Book:

Matchless: Joyce Wethered, Glenna Collett and the Rise of Women’s Golf

From the moment women began hosting championships of their own in 1893, one of golf's burning questions became whether any woman would ever approach the mythical ideal of playing perfect golf. It took three decades of striving – at a time when Suffragettes were stubbornly fighting for women’s rights – before Joyce Wethered and Glenna Collett delivered an unequivocal answer to that question.

From their first meeting at Troon in 1925, through a decade highlighted by their breathtaking match at St Andrews, the Englishwoman and the American brought out in one another golf so sublime that rare was the player, man or woman, who could perform as brilliantly.

The rivalry between Wethered and Collett generated such widespread interest and respect that it paved the way for the birth of a women’s professional tour. Matchless tells the story of these two incomparable golfers – women who personified the ambitions of their age.

Stephen Proctor is the author of three works of narrative golf history -- Monarch of the Green: Young Tom Morris, Pioneer of Modern Golf; The Long Golden Afternoon: Golf’s Age of Glory, 1864-1914, and Matchless: Joyce Wethered, Glenna Collett and the Rise of Women’s Golf. winner of the USGA’s Herbert Warren Wind Award for contributions to golf literature. Before he turned to golf history, Stephen spent 35 years working at American newspapers, serving as a senior editor at The Baltimore Sun, The San Francisco Chronicle and The Houston Chronicle. A native of Maryland, he graduated from The American University in Washington. D.C., and was later awarded a John S. Knight Fellowship in journalism at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where studied the art of literary storytelling. Stephen is an avid hickory golfer and lives with his wife, Mara, at Wittsend Farm in Malabar, Florida.

This free event will take place on Zoom, and will begin at 7pm GMT. A link to the call will be sent prior to participants on the day of the Q&A. Participants will be invited to ask their own questions at the end of the main presentation.

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