Ranelagh International Cup

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The Ranelagh International Cup was an amateur women’s team golf championship held at the Ranelagh Club in Barn Elms, west London, from 1901 to 1936. It took place in April and used a team stroke-play format over two days. Each team could have up to eight players, and the team score each day was based on the four best rounds.

Teams usually included England, Ireland (represented by the whole island), Scotland, and Wales (Wales first competed in 1909). The Ranelagh Club had hosted a ladies’ open meeting since the mid-1890s, and the international cup was added in 1901.

Before World War I the matches were generally close; after the war England often won by large margins. In 1936 Scotland could not field a team, and later that year the Ladies Golf Union cancelled the event. The final champion was England.