Dorothy Campbell

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Dorothy Campbell

Campbell prior to her 1909 victories

Dorothy Iona Campbell (March 24, 1883 – March 20, 1945) was the first internationally dominant female golfer. She was also known in her lifetime as Dorothy Hurd, Mrs. J.V. Hurd, and Dorothy Howe, and she is sometimes referred to by the portmanteau name Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe.

Born as Dorothy Campbell into a golfing family in North Berwick, Scotland, she began swinging golf clubs when she was just 18 months old. Within a few years she was competing with her sisters. She was the first woman to win the American, British and Canadian Women's Amateur Golf Championship.

Over the course of her career, she won 11 national amateur crowns between Great Britain, the United States, Canada, and Scotland, the last of which came in 1924 at the age of 41. She moved to Canada in 1910 and in 1913 she moved to the United States permanently, where she married Jack V. Hurd that year. She won many of her titles as Mrs. J.V. Hurd, but she and Hurd were divorced in 1923. She married Edward Howe in 1937 and divorced again in 1943.

She was inducted to the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame and the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.