[3] In 1937 she first won the Australian Women's Amateur championship and she was also chosen to represent Australia in the four person team to contest the Tasman Cup with New Zealand.

[3] She played an exhibition match with the leading American golf celebrity player Babe Didrikson (later Zaharias) in 1938.

She reached the final of the 1947 Australian Women's Amateur, losing narrowly to the defending champion Joan Fisher, née Lewis.

[5] She had been the representative of Victoria at the Australian Ladies’ Golf Union in 1939 and she continued after the war in 1948.

New Zealand led after the foursomes but her team won enough singles, to retain the cup.

The South West Golf Association still (in 2024) hold the annual Women's Betty Kernot Knockout event.