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AUSTRALIAN CAREER AMATEURS

SANDRA MCCAW

A young Sandra Williams hit her first golf shot in 1965 and six years later she became Australian Junior Champion in 1971, defeating Jan Stephenson. The following year she won the first of a record four Australian Women’s Amateur Championship titles.

Having married, and become Sandra McCaw, she took a year out of the game for the birth of her son, but returned in 1974 to defeat gallery favourite, Jane Lock, to get national title No.2. In 1975 McCaw also

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