:Pat Roberts (golfer)
{{short description|Welsh amateur golfer}}
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| birth_place = Pembrokeshire, Wales
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| death_place = Newport, Wales
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Margaret Patricia Roberts {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|MBE}} (20 April 1921 – 21 August 2013){{cite web |url=http://www.womengolfersmuseum.com/Famousgolfers/R.htm |publisher=Women Golfers' Museum |title=Roberts, Miss Margaret Patricia M.B.E |access-date=8 July 2022}}{{cite news |title=M Roberts |url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/announcements/deaths/deaths/10644191.M_ROBERTS/ |newspaper=South Wales Argus |date=30 August 2013 |access-date=8 July 2022}} was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship four times between 1956 and 1969.
Golf career
Roberts won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship four times, in 1956, 1959, 1963 and 1969, and was runner-up six times, in 1952, 1955, 1957, 1958, 1962 and 1966.{{cite web |title=Welsh Ladies’ Amateur Close Champions |url=https://www.walesgolf.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/Past-Champions.pdf |publisher=Wales Golf |access-date=8 July 2022}}
In 1950, Roberts made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=KkhAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5096%2C1120534 |title=Women's internationals |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=7 |date=13 May 1950}} She made her final appearance in 1970, playing every year except 1952 and 1954.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=1pJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4253%2C2859056 |title=Scotswomen trounce Wales |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=6 |date=15 September 1970}} 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, 1967 and 1969.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=JG1AAAAAIBAJ&pg=1803%2C601342 |title=French women's success |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=4 |date=5 October 1964}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=v2xAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2871%2C1132283 |title=Scotland qualify in team event |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=6 |date=8 July 1965}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=D2tAAAAAIBAJ&pg=6570%2C835374 |title=French team maintain their lead |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=8 |date=6 July 1967}}
Roberts held a number of positions in the Welsh Ladies' Golf Union, including chairman, secretary and president. She was also a vice captain of Curtis Cup and Vagliano Trophy teams.{{cite web |title=Club History |url=https://www.newportgolfclub.org.uk/club/club-history/ |publisher=Newport Golf Club |access-date=8 July 2022}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AGxAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4334%2C4012900 |title=Mrs Z. Bolton is British captain |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=13 |date=23 February 1967}}
Honours
Roberts was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 1994 New Year Honours as president of the Welsh Ladies' Golf Union, "for services to Golf".{{London Gazette |issue=53527 |date=30 December 1993 |page=22}}
Team appearances
- Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Wales): 1964
- European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Wales): 1965, 1967, 1969
- Women's Home Internationals (representing Wales): 1950, 1951, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970