Lewine Mair is the first woman to serve as the Daily Telegraph's Golf correspondent – and the first to have been given a specialist position on the sports pages of a national paper.
Born and brought up in Birmingham, Mair made telling use of her time at the Convent of the Holy Child to practise her golf at the adjacent Edgbaston Golf Club. She had a three-handicap at 16 and played for English and British girls’ teams in the 1960s. She was also a member of Marley Spearman’s senior England side which defeated France at Royal St George’s in 1966.
At the same time as she was studying languages and shorthand at the Midland Bureau, Lewine Guermont, as she was then, was writing a golf column in the Birmingham Planet. At 20, she was asked to cover for Peter Ryde in The Times, a paper to which she also contributed a series of golfing caricatures.
Married at 21 to Norman Mair, the award-winning golf and rugby correspondent of The Scotsman, Mair had four children by the time she was 25. While her children were young, she continued to work on a part-time, freelance basis. In 1992, when the children were either at or through university, she accepted a position as a sports feature writer with the Daily Telegraph.
Her promotion to Golf Correspondent came in 1997, the year in which she was on the six-strong short list for the British Sportswriter of the Year award. In April of 2001, she became the first international writer to be placed in the American Golf Writers' Association annual awards, finishing second in the Daily News category with an article on a row involving the former Open champion, Nick Faldo, and the Ryder Cup captain, Mark James. She was nominated for the same award again in 2003.
Mair is the author of several books, including 100 Years of Women’s Golf, Carefree Golf, Woman Golfer, the story of Scotland’s Belle Robertson, and The Real Monty, Colin Montgomerie’s biography.
Born and brought up in Birmingham, Mair made telling use of her time at the Convent of the Holy Child to practise her golf at the adjacent Edgbaston Golf Club. She had a three-handicap at 16 and played for English and British girls’ teams in the 1960s. She was also a member of Marley Spearman’s senior England side which defeated France at Royal St George’s in 1966.
At the same time as she was studying languages and shorthand at the Midland Bureau, Lewine Guermont, as she was then, was writing a golf column in the Birmingham Planet. At 20, she was asked to cover for Peter Ryde in The Times, a paper to which she also contributed a series of golfing caricatures.
Married at 21 to Norman Mair, the award-winning golf and rugby correspondent of The Scotsman, Mair had four children by the time she was 25. While her children were young, she continued to work on a part-time, freelance basis. In 1992, when the children were either at or through university, she accepted a position as a sports feature writer with the Daily Telegraph.
Her promotion to Golf Correspondent came in 1997, the year in which she was on the six-strong short list for the British Sportswriter of the Year award. In April of 2001, she became the first international writer to be placed in the American Golf Writers' Association annual awards, finishing second in the Daily News category with an article on a row involving the former Open champion, Nick Faldo, and the Ryder Cup captain, Mark James. She was nominated for the same award again in 2003.
Mair is the author of several books, including 100 Years of Women’s Golf, Carefree Golf, Woman Golfer, the story of Scotland’s Belle Robertson, and The Real Monty, Colin Montgomerie’s biography.
Lewine Mair has been the Daily Telegraph’s golf correspondent since 1997 and is the first woman to have held that position. She travels the world writing about Tiger Woods, Colin Montgomerie, Michelle Wie and other household golfing names.
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