Muriel Dodd
{{short description|English golfer}}
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| caption =Dodd in 1913
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1891|5|31|df=y}}
| birth_place = Crosby, Lancashire, England
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|12|21|1891|5|31|df=y}}
| death_place = Surrey, England
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Muriel Dodd (31 May 1891 – 21 December 1976) was an English amateur golfer. She held the British and Canadian titles in 1913.{{cite book |first=Louis T. |last=Stanley |title=Legends of Golf: And Other Observations on the Game |year=1997 |page=32|quote=... Muriel Dodd (left) held both British and Canadian titles in 1913. ... | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0ndEWPWCPEQC&q=%22Muriel+Dodd%22 |isbn=0-7651-9213-6 }}
Dodd was the winner of the 1913 British Ladies Amateur held at the Royal Lytham & St Annes Golf Club, taking the title from Gladys Ravenscroft. She also won the Canadian Women's Amateur in 1913. In 1913 U.S. Women's Amateur in Wilmington, Delaware, she lost to Gladys Ravenscroft in the semi-finals.{{cite news |title=Miss Dodd to Play Miss Ravenscroft, Winner to Meet American Survivor |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9E03E1DC133FE633A25754C1A9669D946296D6CF |quote=Displaying the same high-class golf that continually marked their efforts, Miss Muriel Dodd and Miss Gladys Ravenscroft of Great Britain won their matches impressively in the third round of the women's national championship at the Wilmington Country Club today. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=17 October 1913 |access-date=30 December 2009}}
Dodd married Lieutenant Allan Macbeth at All Soul's Church in London in May 1916.{{cite news |newspaper=Liverpool Echo |date=2 May 1916 |title=Lady Golfer Weds |page=5}} She died in Surrey in December 1976 at the age of 85.[https://www.ancestry.co.uk/family-tree/person/tree/68431364/person/38190908158/story?_phsrc=OzZ4660&_phstart=successSource Ancestry: Muriel Dodd LifeStory]
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Category:English female golfers
Category:Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships
Category:20th-century English sportswomen
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