Alice Knoop

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First Golf Association Championship in Wentorf in 1907 , from left to right. Mr. Hinckley (winner), Mrs. Twiss (winner), Alice Knoop (runner-up), Mr. McMaster (runner-up)

Alice Knoop (born April 11, 1885 in Hamburg , † after 1965 in England ) was a German amateur golfer and first German champion in golf.

Life

Alice Knoop was the only child of the Manchester merchant William Oscar Knoop (1854-1938) and Bertha Jauch (1860-1935).

Her father was a co-founder of golf in Germany, which in 1901 founded what is now the Wentorf-Reinbeker Golf Club and in 1906 was one of the founders of the Hamburg Golf Club.

Alice Knoop was a member of the Wentorf-Reinbeker Golf Club, which created villas around the golf course that enabled members to access the fairways through the garden door . Knoop was among the first German Championships of the Association in 1907 Vice Champion. "During the imperial era, mainly married English women and older German daughters played at tournaments ." In 1908 Alice Knoop became the first German player to win the Open German Golf Championship, at a time when for years "usually still traveling and Resident Britons and Americans won the championships hosted by the association. "

In 1909, 1910 and 1912 she was again runner-up.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hamburg registry office I: secondary register of births . No. 1382/1885.
  2. ^ Geert-Ulrich Mutzenbecher: The insurers. History of a Hamburg merchant family. Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-8042-0638-7 , p. 52
  3. ^ Both clubs 1907 founding members of the German Golf Association
  4. ^ History of the Wentorf-Reinbeker Golf Club ( memento from February 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive ), www.wrggc.de, version from December 29, 2010
  5. ↑ a b Volker Mehnert and Dietrich R. Quanz: Out into the green. Founding days in German golf: from Hanseatic people, aristocrats and spa guests.
  6. ^ Velhagen & Klasings monthly books. Volume 26, Issue 3, 1912, p. 301
  7. ↑ Hubertus von Stolzmann (Ed.): Hundred Years Wentorf-Reinbeker Golf Club 1901–2001. without place without year, p. 47
personal data
SURNAME Knoop, Alice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German amateur golfer and first German champion in golf
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH after 1965
Place of death England