Lucy Barnes Brown (née Lucy Nevins Barnes) (March 16, 1859 – September 30, 1921) was an early American amateur golfer, known for winning the inaugural U.S. Women's Amateur in 1895.
Shinnecock Hills at the time had club members named Barnes, and the United States Golf Association (USGA) speculates that Mrs. Brown was their daughter.
On November 9, 1895, they held the first U.S. Women's Amateur championship at the Meadow Brook Club in the Town of Hempstead, New York.
Thirteen women competed, and Mrs. Brown won the tournament with a score of 132, defeating Nellie C. Sargent by two strokes.
[3] One of their children, Archibald M. Brown, was later president of Shinnecock Hills Golf Club.