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Kōrero: Golf

Women golfers, 1920s

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Women golfers, 1920s

The names of these relaxed women, and the location, are not known, but the period is the early 1920s. Their clothing and manner suggests that golf was becoming an everyday pastime for a wider range of New Zealand women.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: PAColl-9404

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Garry Ahern, Golf – Changing face of golf, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/39263/women-golfers-1920s (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Garry Ahern, i tāngia i te 20 November 2012, updated 1 September 2016.