[1] She attended Belcourt Seminary, a girls' finishing school in Washington, D.C.[2] Gaut was a champion amateur golfer based in Memphis.

[7][8][9] She won the Southern Women's Championship four times, beginning in 1920, when she defeated Alexa Stirling in Atlanta.

[12] She once played golf against Babe Didrikson Zaharias; they were tied after eighteen holes, but Gaut won on the nineteenth-hole tiebreaker.

In 1953, Clifford Davis read remarks into the Congressional Record, marking Gaut's long career in golf.

[12] From 1953 to 2015, the Women's Southern Golf Association awarded an annual Marguerite Gaut Senior Trophy, named in her honor.