Joyce Wethered: 'No, honestly, I'm chuffed to bits...'
A strange day, to say the least, particularly on this day in 1929. At St Andrews, Joyce Wethered became only the second player in history to win The Ladies British Open Amateur Championship four times, while in Rome, Benito Mussolini joined the gallery to watch an exhibition match featuring Gene Sarazen and Johnny Farrell on the invitation of the American embassy. There is no anecdotal evidence that Mussolini was inspired to take up the game, although it does seem to have a certain appeal to authoritarian figures with fascist tendencies.