Nancy Wright

For the member of the Arizona House of Representatives, see Nancy Young Wright.

Helen Nancy McLean Wright (née Cook, 28 March 1917 – 3 June 1994)^[1][2] was a Welsh amateur golfer. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times between 1953 and 1967.

Nancy Wright
Personal information
Full name	Helen Nancy McLean Wright
Born	(1917-03-28)28 March 1917
Died	3 June 1994(1994-06-03) (aged 77)
Sporting nationality	Wales
Career
Status	Amateur

Golf career

Wright won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship six times, in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1958, 1965 and 1967, and was runner-up four times, in 1950, 1951, 1964 and 1968.^[3] Her first and final appearances in the final were both at Royal Porthcawl, losing to Dr. Phyllis Garfield Evans in 1950 and to Sylvia Hales in 1968.^[4][5] In October 1969, she reached the semi-finals of the French championship.^[1]

In 1938, she made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals.^[6] She played again in the first post-war event in 1947 and played most years until 1968, making her final appearance in 1971.^[7][8] She also played for Wales in the 1964 Espirito Santo Trophy, when the four home nations competed separately, and in the European Ladies' Team Championship in 1965 and 1971.^[9][10][11]

Personal life

She married Marcus Thurlow Wright (1896–1994) in 1956.^[12]

Team appearances

• Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Wales): 1964
• European Ladies' Team Championship (representing Wales): 1965, 1971
• Women's Home Internationals (representing Wales): 1938, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1960, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1971