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{{short description|Scottish golfer}}
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'''Elsie Grant Suttie''' (1879 – 4 January 1954) was a Scottish amateur golfer who played in the late 19th century into the mid-20th century. In 1910, Suttie won the [[British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship]] at [[Westward Ho!]] – played on the [[Royal North Devon Golf Club]] course – defeating 18-year-old Lily Moore from Olton Golf Club in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]] 6 and 4 in the final.
She also won the [[Scottish Ladies' Amateur Championship]] in 1911 and 1925.<ref name="North Berwick">{{cite web |url=http://www.northberwick.org.uk/clubmakers_3.html#suttie |website=NorthBerwick.org.uk |title=Elsie Grant Suttie (1879–1954), Ladies' British Open Champion}}</ref>
==Early life==
Suttie was born in 1879 in [[London]], [[England]], the daughter of Captain Francis Grant Suttie, [[Royal Navy|R.N.]], and Elizabeth MacIntryre. Her father was the second son of Sir George Grant Suttie of Balgone. Elsie resided with her parents at Hyndford House, Fidra Road, [[North Berwick]].<ref name="North Berwick"/>
==Golf career==
Suttie was selected to play for the Home Internationals team six times between 1908 and 1923. She learned her golf at North Berwick and [[Sunningdale Golf Club|Sunningdale]] and played most of her early golf with male members of the North Berwick club.<ref name="North Berwick"/>
She won the [[Alexander Shand, 1st Baron Shand|Lord Shand]] scratch medal at [[Biarritz]] in 1910. That same year she was victorious in the [[British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship]] contested at the [[Royal North Devon Golf Club]] course in [[Westward Ho!]] She beat Lily Moore 6 and 4 to take the title. In 1911, Suttie met [[Dorothy Campbell]] in the finals of the British Ladies at [[Portrush]] but lost that match. Later that year, she won the [[Scottish Ladies' Amateur Championship]], beating Ida Kyle from [[St Andrews]] 1 up on Kyle's [[Old Course at St Andrews|home course]]. Suttie won the scratch prize in 1922 at [[Highgate]] and, in 1924, still maintained a plus one handicap. In June 1925, she reached the final of the Scottish Ladies' Amateur Championship at [[Gullane]], losing by one hole to [[Gertrude Percy]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HJ9AAAAAIBAJ&pg=1303%2C6711957 |title=A new lady golf champion |newspaper=[[The Glasgow Herald]] |page=11 |date=20 June 1925}}</ref>
==Death==
By the early 1950s, she was living at Garage House at Marly Knowe in Windgates Road, North Berwick. She was found dead in her home on 4 January 1954, aged 74 years.<ref name="North Berwick"/>
==References==
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[[Category:Scottish female golfers]]
[[Category:Golfers from London]]
[[Category:Golfers from North Berwick]]
[[Category:1879 births]]
[[Category:1954 deaths]]