• Entry type: Person
  • Entry ID: AWE2203

Lock, Jane Melinda

  • MBE
(1954 – )
  • 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

  • 1973 - 1975

    Winner Women’s Australian Junior Amateur Championship

  • 1975

    Awarded MBE for Services to Sport and Golf

  • 1975 - 1976

    Australian Amateur Champion

  • 1975 - 1976

    New Zaaland Open Champion

  • 1979

    Australian Amateur Champion

  • 1981

    Winner Australian LPGA Championship

  • 1981

    Turned professional and tackled the lucrative USLPGA Tour. Played for 5 years.

  • 1981

    Canadian Amateur Champion

Archival resources

  • National Library of Australia, Oral History and Folklore Collection
    • Jane Lock interviewed by Marnie Haig-Muir for the Sport oral history project [sound recording]

Published resources

Related entries


  • Related Organisations
    • Women's Golf Victoria (1906)