A member of The Apawamis Club, she won New York City's Metropolitan Golf Championship in 1900, 1901, 1905, and 1906.

[2] The 1901 U.S. Women's Amateur was held at the Baltusrol Golf Club in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, from October 8–12, 1901.

Hecker led the women's team against the men in a notable match at The Apawamis Club in 1902.

[5] She was so accomplished that it was said where "her iron play is concerned she has no superior in this country among women and few men can compete with her in this part of the same.

Hecker died on July 29, 1960, in Brooklyn, New York, and was interred there in Green-Wood Cemetery.