Alexa Stirling

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KEY CHAMPIONSHIP Victories Women’s Southern Amateur

Playing in the 1923 Canadian Women’s Open, she met Dr. Wilbert Grieve Fraser, who she married two years later. Living in Ottawa, they had three children between 1928 and ’39. She also continued to play golf, winning the ladies’ club championship at the Royal Ottawa Golf Club 9 times (along with various shooting and archery club championships). Stirling returned to Atlanta twice. In 1950, at the request of her old friend Bob Jones, she attended the golden anniversary of the Women’s Amateur, held at Atlanta Athletic Club on its East Lake course. In 1976, she visited the Atlanta Athletic Club, by then in its John’s Creek location, for the 1976 U.S. Open. Alexa Stirling died on April 15, 1977. When she was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame the next year, her children couldn’t understand why. As her daughter said, “We knew she played golf, but we had no idea.” No idea, indeed. As modest as she was dominant, Alexa Stirling deserves to join the World Golf Hall of Fame.

1915

1916

U.S. Women’s Amateur Women’s Southern Amateur

1919

U.S. Women’s Amateur Women’s Southern Amateur

1920

U.S. Women’s Amateur Canadian Women’s Amateur

1922

Met Women’s Amateur

1923

Met Women’s Amateur

1934

Canadian Women’s Amateur

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