2024 IGA Yearbook

63 THE CENTENNIAL Initially starting in 1922, the Iowa Women’s Golf Association (I.W.G.A.) was formed on August 30th at Sunnyside Golf & Country Club. Two days later, the first Iowa Women’s Amateur champion was crowned as Waterloo’s very own Margaret Addington defeat- ed Mrs. Frank C. Byers of Cedar Rapids 4 & 3. The following year marked the second and final year of the event being invite-only. But the match-play format held strong for the first 32 years of the championship before changing to medal play competition in 1957. In the eighth year of the championship, Lucile Rob- inson Mann (right) captured her first Iowa Women’s Amateur title, but it would be far from her last. Dom- inant in Iowa, especially in the 1930’s, Mann reeled off four straight victories from 1931-1934 with her 1933 title coming at Sunnyside. Though many have tried, her record of four straight victories remains intact. Pursuing the highest level of amateur golf, Lucile’s game traveled and traveled well en route to her captur- ing the 1933 Women’s Western Amateur over reigning U.S. Women’s Amateur Champion Virginia Van Wie. Just a year later, she became the first Iowa woman to be named to the Curtis Cup Team, the pinnacle of amateur golf for American women. Continuing to add to her Hall of Fame career, she made the team yet again two years later in 1936, but was unable to participate due to her wedding. Sev- en years after her final Iowa Women’s Amateur title, Mann proved she belonged with the best of the best as she won her second Women’s Western Amateur and lone Trans-Mississippi Women’s Amateur. Mann became the fifth woman inducted into the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame when she was enshrined in 1995. Iowa has long been home to many talented women’s golfers who excel both at the state and national levels. Six-time Iowa Women's Amateur champion, Corkey Nydle Lucile Robinson Mann