On 11 August, Jeanne Bisgood, who in 1952 played in the first GB&I side to defeat the Americans in the Curtis Cup, is throwing a party at Parkstone Golf Club, where she has been a member for 80 years, by way of celebrating her 100th birthday. Although she had three falls in January, there were no broken bones and she did what you would expect of a petty officer in the WRNS in keeping calm and carrying on. As, indeed, she did when anything went awry on the golf course.
“I’ve been so lucky with my health,” she said a couple of weeks ago. To give an example of her fuss-free attitude to life, she was 93 when she went over to Ireland to watch the ’16 Curtis Cup at Dun Laoghaire. There was a coach to take guests back and forth from the official hotel and, on the occasion it failed to put in an appearance, she hopped aboard a local bus.
