Print, Photographic

Photograph

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Shanaman Sports Museum

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Print, Photographic

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2004.14.02

Description

Pat Lesser Harbottle hits out of a sand trap in this black and white photo donated by Harbottle. Lesser Harbottle didn’t take up golf until the age of 12 when she and her family moved to Laurelhurst after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941 where her father was stationed. A natural and gifted athlete, Lesser Harbottle won the Seattle City Amateur in 1948 and 1949 and became a golfing legend after trying out and making the men’s golf team at Seattle University in the 1950s. Lesser Harbottle won the U.S. Girls Junior Championship, the U.S. collegiate crown and the 1955 U.S. Amateur. She also won low amateur at the USGA Open and PNGA championship honors in 1953. Lesser Harbottle competed twice in the Curtis Cup was given a ticker-tape parade after winning the 1955 Women’s Amateur. Lesser Harbottle also won the PNGA title in 1965 and the Washington State championship in 1974. She was the first woman honored as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Man of the Year” in sports. Lesser Harbottle was inducted into the Washington State Sports Hall of Fame and the Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame.

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Golf, Recreational, High School, College

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Harbottle, John

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Harbottle, Lesser Pat

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Laurelhurst

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