Gertrude Harrison
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Gertrude MacAdams Harrison (1871 – January 3, 1938) was the first female golf professional.[citation needed]
She was born Gertrude MacAdams[1] in 1871. About 1928, she invented a device which returned golf balls driven into a driving net to the feet of the golfer.[2][3]
Harrison died suddenly of natural causes at the golf school she ran in Cleveland, Ohio.[2] She was buried in Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland.[3]
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