Janette Wright

Wright won the Girls Amateur Championship in 1950 beating Ann Phillips 5&4 in the final.[2] She was a finalist again in 1951, losing to Jane Redgate at the 19th hole.[3] She played in the England–Scotland girls match each year from 1950 to 1953.[4][5][6][7] In 1952 she made her senior debut in the Women's Home Internationals. She won her three matches with Scotland retaining the title.[8][9] Wright was part of the British juniors team that played in the Commonwealth tournament at Formby in early July 1953. The other teams were Britain, Canada and New Zealand.[10]

Wright was one of the last two women selected for the 1954 Curtis Cup team at Merion Golf Club.[11] The Americans won by 6 matches to 3. Wright lost her foursomes match but beat Joyce Ziske in the singles.[12] The team had earlier won a match against a Canadian team, Wright halving her singles match and winning in the foursomes.[13] Wright was selected as part of a British women's team that toured Australia and New Zealand in the second half of 1955. Because many of the senior players were unavailable, the team turned into a team of five juniors, aged between 18 and 21.[14][15] The tour was such a success that the team was awarded the Association of Golf Writers trophy, the first time a team had won the award.[16] Earlier in 1955 she reached the semi-finals of the British Ladies Amateur, losing narrowly to Barbara Romack.[17] At the end of March 1956, Wright was again selected for the Curtis Cup team.[18] Britain won the match 5–4, their second win in the event, although Wright lost both her foursomes and singles matches.[19]

Playing with Angela Bonallack, Wright was a joint-winner of the 1958 Kayser Bondor Foursomes.[20] She also reached the final of the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship for the first time, losing by one hole to Dorothea Sommerville in the 36-hole final.[21] In May she was one of the first four players selected for the 1958 Curtis Cup team.[22] The match in August was tied, with Britain retaining the cup as the previous holders. Wright won both her matches.[23][24] In 1959 she won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship for the first time, beating Belle McCorkindale 6&5 in the final.[25] Playing with future husband Innes Wright, they won the Worplesdon Mixed Foursomes in October 1959.[26]

Wright was selected for the 1960 Curtis Cup team, her final appearance in the contest.[27] The United States regained the cup with Wright losing both her matches, although she took Anne Quast to the 36th hole in the singles.[28][29] Wright retained the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship later in 1960, beating Dorothea Sommerville in the final.[30] In early 1961, playing with Jessie Valentine, she won the Kayser Bondor Foursomes by four strokes.[31] She also won the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship for the third successive year, on the Old Course at St Andrews.[32] In 1970 she reached the semi-finals of the British Ladies Amateur for the second time, losing to Dinah Oxley.[33] In 1973 she won the Scottish Amateur for the fourth time, again on the Old Course.[34] That win saw her return to the Scottish team in the 1973 European Ladies' Team Championship and in the Women's Home Internationals, for the final time.[35]

In 1960 she married Innes Wright, a Scottish amateur golf international. They had a daughter Pamela, who is a professional golfer.[36]

Innes Wright became a professional in early 1963 when in his late-20s. In his first important professional event, the 1963 News of the World Matchplay at Turnberry, he reached the semi-finals before losing to fellow-Scot John MacDonald.[37] The previous day he had beaten Tony Grubb in the morning and then Brian Huggett in the afternoon, a match that went to nine extra holes.[38] He later became the professional at Aboyne Golf Club.

• Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1954, 1956 (winners), 1958 (tied), 1960
• Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1957 (winners), 1959 (winners), 1961 (winners), 1963 (winners)
• Commonwealth Trophy (representing Great Britain): 1959 (winners)
• Commonwealth tournament (representing British juniors): 1953
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Scotland): 1965, 1973
• Women's Home Internationals (representing Scotland): 1952 (winners), 1953, 1954, 1955 (winners), 1956 (winners), 1957 (winners), 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961 (winners), 1963, 1965, 1966, 1967 (joint winners), 1973
• England–Scotland girls match (representing Scotland): 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953