Wright lost to Maureen Madill in a playoff for the 1980 Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, after taking a bogey 5 at the first extra hole.

[2] She played for the Great Britain & Ireland team in the 1981 Vagliano Trophy.

[3][4][5] In 1982 she met Jane Connachan in the final of the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship, losing at the 19th hole.

[6] In 1985 she won the Helen Holm Scottish Women's Open Championship by two strokes from Belle Robertson.

Wright is the daughter of Innes, who was a golf professional in Aboyne, Scotland and Janette, a leading Scottish amateur golfer.