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She won her first golf championship at the age of 21 when she won the 1928 Lanarkshire Open Golf championship. It was the only one she won as Helen Gray as the following year, 1929, she was married and used the name Helen Holm. She won the
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which is part of Glasgow. Her mother was Violet Irene Emma Warren and her father Thomas was a Professor of Chemistry at the Technical College. Violet and Thomas had two daughters.
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In 1951 she became the captain of the British team and contested matches against Belgium and France and she played in Scottish home internationals in 1955 and 1957.
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Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Golf Championship
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was named in her honour in 1973 and is now known as the "
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Index


Partick
Ayr
Scotland
British Ladies Amateur
Partick
Scottish Ladies' Amateur Championship
British Ladies Amateur
Royal Porthcawl Golf Club
Burnham & Berrow Golf Club
Curtis Cup
Gleneagles Hotel
Auchterarder
Perthshire
Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts
Scottish Ladies' Amateur Championship
Ayr
Helen Holm Trophy
Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Amateur Stroke Play Golf Championship
Royal Troon
Belle Robertson



"Holm [née Gray], Helen Warren (1907–1971), golfer"
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
doi
10.1093/ref:odnb/51540
ISBN
978-0-19-861412-8

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