Top Players  Margaret Abbott  ©USGA Museum With a nine-hole
score of 47, Margaret Abbott gained a measure of renown by
becoming the first American woman, and second overall, to win an
Olympic gold medal, winning the 1900 Olympic golf event for
women and will remain through 2016 the only female Olympic golf
champion. She had learned the game at the Chicago Golf Club,
schooled by Charles Blair Macdonald and H. J. Whigham, two of
the top American amateurs. Although she never played in a major
tournament in this country she was probably Chicago's top woman
player in 1900, winning many of the local events.  Rhona Adair
©British Golf Museum Rhona Adair was an Irish amateur player,
who was born to Hugh and Augusta Adair in Cookstown, Ireland.
Her father owned a linen firm which was the county's largest
employer and his means gave Rhona the time and finances to
support her amateur career. She won the British Ladies' Open
Amateur Championship in 1900 and 1903, and won the Irish Ladies'
Closed Championship for four co