Moira Milton
Personal information
Full name	Moira Christine Paterson Milton
Born	( 1923-12-18 ) 18 December 1923 Castle Douglas , Scotland
Died	24 January 2012 (2012-01-24) (aged 88) Wells , England
Sporting nationality	Scotland
Career
Status	Amateur

Moira Christine Milton (nee Paterson) (18 December 1923 ? 24 January 2012) was a Scottish amateur golfer. She won the British Ladies Amateur in 1952, and was a member of the winning Great Britain and Ireland 1952 Curtis Cup team.

Early life [ edit ]

Paterson was born in Castle Douglas , in Dumfries and Galloway ; she was raised in Lenzie . ^[1]

Golf career [ edit ]

Paterson was a gym teacher at Kirkintilloch when she finished as runner-up in the French Women's Open Amateur Championship in 1949, and in the Scottish Women's Amateur Championship in 1951. ^{[2] [3]}

She toured South Africa with a group of British women golfers in 1951. Paterson won the British Ladies Amateur in 1952, and was a member of the victorious Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup team later in the same year. She became an honorary member of Gullane Golf Club in 1952. ^[1]

She won three county women's golf championships: Dunbartonshire in 1949, East of Scotland in 1960, and Midlothian in 1962. ^[1]

Personal life [ edit ]

In 1953, Paterson married cricketer John C. Milton. She died at a nursing home in Wells in 2012, aged 88 years. ^[1]

References [ edit ]