[1] She faced discrimination from golf administrators because of his working class occupation.
[5] In 1955 she married Roy Smith, a Scottish Airlines pilot killed in a 1957 crash in Libya.
She played in all six Curtis Cups from 1950 to 1960, and was non-playing captain of the Great Britain and Ireland team in 1962 and 1972.
[9] Her final-hole victories over Polly Riley in the 1956 and 1958 tournaments secured a win and a draw respectively for the British team, the first time it retained the cup.
[4] Herbert Warren Wind called her a "slight, quiet, entirely undramatic girl" and an outstanding clutch player.