Judy Darling Evans

Category: Amateur Player

Judy Darling after winning the 1960 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship

Inducted: 2017

Born: October 6, 1937

During her stellar amateur career, Judy Darling Evans was a dominant force in Quebec and Canadian women’s amateur golf with a resume that includes three Quebec Junior Girls’ titles (1953, 1956 & 1957); six Quebec Women’s Amateur titles (1957-1961, 1972); a Quebec Women’s Senior title (1988); three Quebec interprovincial team titles; a Canadian Junior Girls title (1957) and a pair of Canadian Women’s Amateur victories (1960-61). She also represented Canada at the 1959 and 1963 Commonwealth Games and in 1998, her accomplishments were recognized with induction into the Quebec Golf Hall of Fame.

A product of a proud golfing family, she and her mother Dora are the only mother-daughter duo to have both won the Quebec Ladies Amateur Championship and the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship.

National:

1957 Canadian Junior Girls Champion

1960 and 1961 Canadian Women’s Amateur Champion

Provincial:

1953, 1956, 1957 Quebec Junior Girls Champion

1957-1961, 1972 Quebec Women’s Amateur Champion

1988 Quebec Women’s Senior Champion

Provincial Teams:

1956

1955, 1957-1961, 1968 Quebec Women’s Interprovincial

Teams:

1959 Commonwealth (with Marlene Streit, Roma Neundorf, Rae Milligan, Mary Gay)

1963 Commonwealth (with Marlene Streit, Rae Milligan, Betty Cole, Gayle Hitchens)

Awards:

Inducted to Quebec Golf Hall of Fame in 1998

Resources:

Photos of Judy Darling Evans from the collection.