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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

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Garry Ahern, Golf – Changing face of golf, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/39263/women-golfers-1920s (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Garry Ahern, published 20 November 2012, updated 1 September 2016.