Estelle Lawson

Estelle Page, née Lawson (March 22, 1907 – May 7, 1983) was an American amateur golfer.

Early life In 1907, Page was born. She is a native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Bob Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Page graduated from Chapel Hill High School where she played tennis and basketball.

Golf career In 1935, Lawson won her first of seven North and South Women's Amateurs at the Pinehurst Resort, a record that still stands. At that year's U.S. Women's Amateur, Page won the medal for the lowest round during the qualifying matches and won the medal again in 1937 and went on to defeat Patty Berg in the finals to win the most important amateur championship in the U.S. In 1938, at Westmoreland Country Club, the two met again in the finals, this time the victory went to Berg.

Page was part of the U.S. team that won the 1938 Curtis Cup and ten years later she was part of another Curtis Cup winning team. She won three straight North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Championships (1950–52), nine Women's Carolinas Amateur between 1932 and 1949. and retired with 22 tournament victories to her credit.

Personal life In 1936, she married Julius A. Page Jr. and they made their home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Page died in 1983 and was interred in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery in Chapel Hill.

Awards and honors Following the creation of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1963, she was part of the first group to be inducted.

Tournament wins this list is incomplete 1932 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1933 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1935 North and South Women's Amateur 1936 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1937 North and South Women's Amateur, U.S. Amateur 1938 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1939 North and South Women's Amateur 1940 North and South Women's Amateur, Women's Carolinas Amateur 1941 North and South Women's Amateur, Women's Carolinas Amateur 1944 North and South Women's Amateur 1945 North and South Women's Amateur 1946 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1947 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1949 Women's Carolinas Amateur 1950 North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Championship 1951 North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Championship 1952 North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Championship

Team appearances Amateur Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 1938 (winners), 1948 (winners)