- Entry type: Person
- Entry ID: AWE2203
Lock, Jane Melinda
- MBE
- Born 1954, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Occupation Golfer
Summary
Jane Lock was born in Sydney but grew up in Melbourne where she learned to play golf. By the age of 16 she had a single figure handicap, at 17 she won the first of three successive Australian junior championships and in 1975, she achieved the double, winning both the Australian senior and junior championships.
Jane Lock represented Australia more than thirty times and set course records in six countries. She turned professional in 1980 and played on the American circuit.
Events
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1973 - 1975
Winner Women’s Australian Junior Amateur Championship
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1975
Awarded MBE for Services to Sport and Golf
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1975 - 1976
Australian Amateur Champion
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1975 - 1976
New Zaaland Open Champion
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1979
Australian Amateur Champion
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1981
Winner Australian LPGA Championship
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1981
Turned professional and tackled the lucrative USLPGA Tour. Played for 5 years.
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1981
Canadian Amateur Champion
Archival resources
Published resources
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Site Exhibition
- She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2007, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
- Faith, Hope and Charity Australian Women and Imperial Honours: 1901-1989, Australian Women's Archives Project, 2003, http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/honours/honours.html
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Resource
- Trove: Lock, Jane Melinda (1954-), http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-708116