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Curtis Cup
22 Curtis Cup Match
1932 Marion Hollins
1934 Glenna Collett Vare
1936 Glenna Collett Vare
1938 Frances E. Stebbins
1948 Glenna Collett Vare
1950 Glenna Collett Vare
1952 Aniela Goldthwaite
1954 Edith Flippin
1956 Edith Flippin
1958 Virginia Dennehy
1960 Mildred Prunaret
1962 Polly Riley
1964 Helen Hawes
Curtis Cup Captains: 1932 to 2012
1966 Dorothy Germain Porter
1968 Evelyn Monsted
1970 Carolyn Cudone
1972 Jean Ashley Crawford
1974 Marion “Sis” Choate
1976 Barbara McIntire
1978 Helen Sigel Wilson
1980 Nancy Roth Syms
1982 Betty Probasco
1984 Phyllis Preuss
1986 Judy Bell
1988 Judy Bell
1990 Leslie Shannon
Dr. Patricia Cornett, 2012 USA Curtis Cup Captain
1992 Judith Oliver
1994 Lancy Smith
1996 Martha Lang
1998 Barbara McIntire
2000 Jane Bastanchury Booth
2002 Dr. Mary Budke
2004 Martha Wilkinson Kirouac
2006 Carol Semple Thompson
2008 Carol Semple Thompson
2010 Noreen Mohler
2012 Dr. Patricia Cornett
Dr. Patricia Cornett, 56, of Mill Valley, Calif., a veteran of more than 50 USGA championships, has been selected as the captain of
the 2012 USA Curtis Cup Team.
“I am humbled to be selected as captain of the 2012 United States Curtis Cup Team and follow the legacy of Harriot and Margaret
Curtis,” said Cornett. “The sisters’ passion for golf, their spirit of competition and most importantly, their social awareness, have
always been an inspiration for me.
“I also am deeply honored to follow in the footsteps of those prior captains who have so ably led our American teams,” added
Cornett. “My hope, as captain, is to not only fulfill the Curtis sisters’ charge, ‘To stimulate friendly rivalry among the women golfers
of many lands,’ but also to inspire the newest generation of USA Curtis Cup players as to the importance and magnitude of this
historic competition.”
Cornett began her USGA career with the 1971 U.S. Girls’ Junior and competed in eight U.S. Women’s Open Championships.
She was the runner-up at the 1987 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur and was a semifinalist in that championship in 1992 and 1999.
She also advanced to the semifinals of the 1976 and 1992 U.S. Women’s Amateurs. Cornett has played in the last four USGA
Senior Women’s Amateur Championships, advancing to the quarterfinals in 2009. Her career victories include the 1990 Women’s
Western Amateur.
Cornett, a native of Salinas, Calif., earned her B.S. in biology from Stanford University in 1976 and earned her M.D. from the
Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1980. She was an intern/resident in internal medicine at Letterman Army Medical Center in
San Francisco from 1980-83, and a Fellow in Hematology/Oncology at Letterman Army Medical Center from 1983-1986. She is a
Professor of Medicine and serves as the Associate Chair for Education in the Department of Medicine at the University of California,
San Francisco and the Associate Chief of Staff for Education at the San Francisco VA Medical Center.
She and her husband, Mike Iker, have two daughters, Annemarie and Theresa.
Photography: ©USGA/John Mummert