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WWATC
28 Women’s World Amateur Team
Name Years played Name Years played
R
Richard, Debra 1984
Rizzo, Patrice M. 1980
S
Sander, Anne Quast 1966, 1968, 1988
Scrivner, Kathleen McCarthy 1986
Shannon, Leslie 1986
Sinn, Pearl 1988
1964 Helen Hawes
1966 Helen Hawes
1968 Kay Pennington
1970 Mildred Prunaret
1972 Evelyn Monsted
1974 Sis Choate
1976 Phyllis Semple
1978 Margaret Lovell
1980 Elizabeth Brand
Photography: course: courtesy Turkish Golf Federation; Korean Team: ©USGA/John Mummert
T
Thompson, Carol Semple 1974, 1980, 1988,
1992, 1994
W
1982 Cynnie Alexandre
1984 Dorothy Germain Porter
1986 Kay Jackson
1988 Judy Bell
1990 Katherine Graham
1992 Alice Dye
1994 Ann Beard
1996 Wilma Gilliland
1998 Barbara McIntire
Walshe, Alison 2008
Ward, Wendy 1994
White, Donna Horton 1976
Women’s World Amateur Team uSA Captains: 1964 to 2012
2000 Joan Birkland
2002 Mary Capouch
2004 Cora Jane Blanchard
2006 Jeanne Myers
2008 Marcia Luigs
2010 Roberta Bolduc
2012 Carol Semple Thompson
Carol Semple Thompson, 2012 Women’s World Amateur Team uSA Captain
Carol Semple Thompson, 63, of Sewickley, Pa., has been selected as the captain of the 2012 USA Women’s World Amateur Team.
Semple Thompson is one of the most decorated female golfers in amateur history and was inducted into the World Golf Hall of
Fame in 2008. A seven-time individual USGA champion, Semple Thompson’s victories include the 1973 Women’s Amateur title
and four consecutive Senior Women’s Amateur titles in 1999-2002. She represented the United States a record 12 times at the
Curtis Cup Match (1974-76, 1980-82, 1988-2002), and led the team to victory as captain in 2006 and 2008.
She also competed at the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in 1974, 1980, 1988, 1992 and 1994, and becomes the
second past WWATC competitor to captain the Team. (Barbara McIntire competed on the inaugural Team in 1964 and served as
captain in 1998.)
Semple Thompson’s parents, Harton and Phyllis Semple, were longtime USGA volunteers and competitive golfers. Harton Semple
was a member of the USGA Executive Committee who served as president in 1974-75, while Phyllis Semple competed in more than
30 USGA championships. Both preceded their daughter as World Amateur Team captains: Phyllis Semple captained the victorious
USA Team at the 1976 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship in Portugal, and Harton Semple led the 1978 men’s Team to
victory in Fiji.
Semple Thompson followed in their footsteps, becoming the second female member of the USGA Executive Committee (1994-
2000). She won the 2003 USGA Bob Jones Award, and served as general chairman of the 2010 U.S. Women’s Open at Oakmont
Country Club. A 1970 graduate of Hollins College, Thompson is married to Richard V. Thompson.