at the Wentworth Golf Club in England in 1932. She served as player-captain in 1934, 1936, 1938, and 1948. After winning 49 championships, she ended her competitive golf career at the age of 56, with a victory at the 1959 Rhode Island Women's Golf Association tournament. She was the author of two books on golf: Golf For Young Players in 1926, and Ladies in the Rough in 1928. Since 1953, the Ladies Professional Golf Association has awarded the Vare Trophy to the golfer who has the lowest average strokes per round in professional tour events. In 1965, Collett-Vare was the recipient of the Bob Jones Award, the United States Golf Association's highest honor given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf. In 1975, she was part of the first class inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame. At the age of 81, she still had a 15 handicap and played in her 61st consecutive Invitational event in 1984 at the Point Judith Country Club in Rhode Island. Death and legacy Collett Vare died in 1989 in Gulf Stream, Florida. In her 1977 book, One Hundred Greatest Women in Sports, author Phyllis Hollander listed Glenna Collett Vare ahead of Babe Zaharias and Patty Berg, stating that "her career was unequaled in the annals of golf". Gene Sarazen called her "the greatest woman golfer of all time". Team appearances Amateur Curtis Cup (representing the United States): 1932 (winners), 1934 (non-playing captain), 1936 (tie, Cup retained, playing captain), 1938 (winners), 1948 (winners, playing captain), 1950 (non-playing captain) Books Golf For Young Players by Glenna Collett (1926) – Little, Brown and Company Ladies in the Rough by Glenna Collett with a foreword by Bobby Jones (1928) – Alfred A. Knopf References One Hundred Greatest Women in Sports – Phyllis Hollander (1977). Putnam External links Glenna Collett Vare bio American female golfers Amateur golfers Golf writers and broadcasters Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships World Golf Hall of Fame inductees Golfers from Connecticut Golfers from Rhode Island Lincoln School (Providence, Rhode Island) alumni Sportspeople from New Haven, Connecticut Sportspeople from Providence, Rhode Island 1903 births 1989 deaths 20th-century American women 20th-century American people