Angela Uzielli
{{short description|English amateur golfer}}
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| birth_place = Swanton Morley, Norfolk, England
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Angela Mary Uzielli ({{nee}} Carrick; 1 February 1940 – 4 November 1999) was an English amateur golfer.{{cite web |title=Uzielli, Mrs Angela (nee Carrick) |url=http://www.womengolfersmuseum.com/Famousgolfers/U.htm |access-date=20 March 2022 |publisher=Women Golfers' Museum}} She won the 1977 British Ladies Amateur, the 1990 English Women's Amateur Championship and won the Women's Senior Amateur six times in the 1990s. She played in the 1978 Curtis Cup.
Golf career
In 1968, Uzielli reached the final of the Wills Women's National Match Play, losing to New Zealander Heather Booth in the final.{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/105125572/the-guardian/ |title=Wills win for Miss Booth |newspaper=The Guardian |page=14 |date=27 July 1968 |via=Newspapers.com}} Uzielli won the 1977 British Ladies Amateur at Hillside Golf Club, beating Vanessa Marvin 6&5 in the final.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yZBAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4158%2C4301347 |title=True amateur champion |first=Raymond |last=Jacobs |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=20 June 1977 |page=19}} She won the English Women's Amateur Championship in 1990 at the age of 50, beating Linzi Fletcher in the final. She had been a runner-up in 1976, losing to Lynne Harrold.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=wpJAAAAAIBAJ&pg=2695%2C4692471 |title=English champion |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |page=16 |date=22 May 1976}} Playing with Wilma Aitken she won the Avia Foursomes in 1982.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ActAAAAAIBAJ&pg=1676%2C4286265 |title=Aitken triumphs in Avia |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=19 March 1982 |page=24}} She was also three times a runner-up in the event, in 1977, 1979 and 1988. Uzielli won the Women's Senior Amateur six times in the 1990s, in 1990, 1991, 1992, 1995, 1998 and 1999.{{cite web |title=Senior's British Open - remembering late Angela Uzielli |url=https://www.randa.org/News/2016/09/Senior-British-Open-remembering-late-Angela-Uzielli |publisher=The R&A |date=12 September 2016 |access-date=21 March 2022}}
In 1977 she was in the English team that won the European Ladies' Team Championship in Spain.{{cite news |date=11 July 1977 |last=Ryde |first=Peter |title=Golf, England win European title by emphatic margin|page=5 |newspaper=The Times (London, England)}} Later in the year she played for Great Britain & Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy in Sweden.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YJBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8KQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3797%2C3078752 |title=British Women Lead |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=17 August 1977 |page=20}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=YZBAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8KQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5637%2C2904619 |title=British Women Triumph |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=18 August 1977 |page=15}} In 1978 she played in the Curtis Cup match at The Apawamis Club in the United States.{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FbdAAAAAIBAJ&pg=5373%2C1187513 |title=Sag after our best cup start |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=5 August 1978 |page=16}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=FrdAAAAAIBAJ&pg=4500%2C1400051 |title=Muriel our only Curtis Cup winner |newspaper=The Glasgow Herald |date=7 August 1978 |page=15}}
Personal life
Team appearances
- Curtis Cup (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1978
- Vagliano Trophy (representing Great Britain & Ireland): 1977 (winners)
- European Ladies' Team Championship (representing England): 1977 (winners)
- Women's Home Internationals (representing England): 1976 (winners), 1977 (winners), 1978 (winners), 1990