Florence Harvey Explained

Florence Lyle Harvey
Birth Date:10 November 1878
Death Date:1968
Nationality:Canadian
Occupation:golfer

Florence Lyle Harvey (November 10, 1878 – 1968) was a Canadian golfer, and an ambulance driver in Serbia during World War I. She was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame in 1972.

Early life

Harvey was the daughter of John and Williamina Harvey; both parents were born in Scotland.[1] She was raised in Hamilton, Ontario.

Career

Harvey won the Canadian Ladies' Amateur Championship twice,[2] in 1903 and 1904, and was runner-up in the same competition in 1911 and 1913. She won the 1914 North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship and was also Ontario Ladies' Amateur Champion in 1904, 1906, 1913 and 1914.[3] In 1910 she was a semi-finalist in an international Ladies' Championship, defeated by fellow Canadian Dorothy Campbell.[4] She competed in the British Ladies Amateur Championship in 1911, 1912, 1913, and 1920.[5] [6]

Harvey applied for a patent on a process of manufacturing golf balls in 1912.[7] She was a founder of the Canadian Ladies' Golf Union (CLGU) in 1913,[8] and served as secretary of the organization.[9] She organized Canadian women's golf into three regional divisions, subdivided into districts.[10] In 1963, she attended the CLGU's 50th anniversary event at Rivermead Golf Club.[11] [12]

During World War I, Harvey worked on fundraising efforts among women golfers to buy an ambulance.[13] Harvey was a Red Cross volunteer ambulance driver in Vranje and Belgrade in 1918 and 1919, working with a Scottish Women's Hospital unit.[14] [15] Writing about her experiences, she commented, "The screams of a woman at any time are awful, but the screams of a man you never forget to your dying day."[16] She wrote a monthly column called "Golfing Hints" for Golfers Magazine in 1919.[17]

During World War II she was in England with the Canadian Red Cross.[18]

Personal life

Harvey moved to South Africa and raised poultry on a farm with her friend from the war, Marjorie Pope-Ellis.[19] She returned to Canada in 1954, and died in Ancaster, Ontario in 1968, aged 89 years. In 1972, she was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame. She was also inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame in 2000, and the Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame in 2012.[20]

Amateur wins

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: FamilySearch.org. FamilySearch.
  2. News: Best of the Best: Great Canadian Female Golfers . August 21, 2011 . The Ottawa Citizen . July 1, 2019 . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  3. Book: 1915 . Open Canadian Championship . https://books.google.com/books?id=7iRJAQAAMAAJ&q=Harvey&pg=PA176 . Spalding's Official Golf Guide . 176.
  4. News: National Women's Golf Reaches Final . October 15, 1910 . The New York Times . 12 . ProQuest.
  5. Web site: The Evolution of the Canadian Ladies Golf Union (Canadian Ladies Golf Association) in BC from 1933-2004 . BC Golf House Society . 2019-07-01.
  6. Book: Leitch, Cecil . Golf . 1922 . J.B. Lippincott . 153.
  7. Book: The Canadian Patent Office Record Vol XI No 7 1912 . 1912 . 2815. Patent Office . Canada .
  8. Book: Hall, M. Ann . Immodest and Sensational: 150 Years of Canadian Women in Sports . registration . Florence Harvey golf. . 2008-10-15 . James Lorimer & Company . 9781552770214 . 22–23.
  9. Web site: Florence Harvey's Hall of Fame Profile . Golf Canada . 2022-12-09.
  10. Book: Hall, Margaret Ann . The Girl and the Game: A History of Women's Sport in Canada . 2002 . University of Toronto Press . 9781551112688 . 39–40.
  11. News: Lutes . Carol . June 21, 1963 . CLGU Plans Anniversary Tourney . The Ottawa Citizen . 27 . Newspapers.com.
  12. News: 200 Arrive in Ottawa for Golf Championships . July 9, 1963 . The Ottawa Citizen . July 1, 2019 . 24 . Newspapers.com.
  13. Web site: A Heritage Day Celebration of Canadian Golf - part two . Osprey Valley Golf Course - Caledon, Ontario . 2019-07-01 . July 1, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190701184619/https://ospreyvalleygolf.squarespace.com/news/2015/2/16/a-heritage-day-celebration-of-canadian-golf-part-two . dead .
  14. Web site: Florence Harvey - Class of 2000 . Golf Ontario . 2019-07-01 . July 1, 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190701184625/https://gao.ca/about-us/ontario-golf-hall-of-fame/ontario-golf-hall-of-fame-member-bios/florence-harvey-class-of-2000/ . dead .
  15. News: Golf wasn't the only great thing Harvey did . McKay . Garry . 2017-06-22 . The Hamilton Spectator . 2019-07-01.
  16. Harvey . Florence . 1919–1920 . Some Experiences in Serbia. Canadian Club Yearbook . 143–168; quote on page 150.
  17. Harvey . Florence L. . August 1919 . Golfing Hints . Golfers Magazine . 35 . 30.
  18. http://www.matchplaygolfmarketing.com/HGCC/FamousHamiltonian.pdf "Greatest Hamiltonians"
  19. News: Untitled news item . November 29, 1919 . The Ottawa Journal . July 1, 2019 . 25 . Newspapers.com.
  20. Web site: Florence Harvey . Hamilton Sports Hall of Fame . 2019-07-01.

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