Katharine Cairns
[2] She reached the quarter-finals of the 1946 Womens Amateur Championship at Hunstanton, losing 5&4 to the eventual winner, Jean Hetherington.[3] In early June 1947 she played for England in the Women's Home Internationals, for the first time.[4] Later in June she was part of the winning British team for the Vagliano Trophy in Paris.[5] In 1948 she reached the quarter-finals of the English Women's Amateur Championship, beating defending champion, Mollie Wallis, and Curtis Cup player, Jacqueline Gordon, before losing to Zara Bolton.[10] In late 1951 Cairns was chosen to be the captain of the British team for the 1952 Curtis Cup at Muirfield.