Nancy Wright


Helen Nancy McLean Wright was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times between 1953 and 1967.

Golf career

Wright won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times, in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1965 and 1967, and was runner-up four times, in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1968. Her first and final appearances in the final were both at Royal Porthcawl, losing to Dr. Phyllis Garfield Evans in 1950 and to Sylvia Hales in 1968. In October 1969, she reached the semi-finals of the French championship.
In 1938, she made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals. She played again in the first post-war event in 1947 and played most years until 1968, making her final appearance in 1971. She also played for Wales in the 1964 Espirito Santo Trophy, when the four home nations competed separately, and in the European Ladies' Team Championship in 1965 and 1971.

Personal life

She married Marcus Thurlow Wright in 1956.

Team appearances

  • Espirito Santo Trophy : 1964
  • European Ladies' Team Championship : 1965, 1971
  • Women's Home Internationals : 1938, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971