Estelle Lawson

Estelle Page ,nee Lawson (March 22, 1907 - May 7, 1983) was an American golf champion. A native of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, her father was Dr. R.B. Lawson, the first athletic director at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

In 1935 Lawson won her first of seven North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championships at the Pinehurst Resort, a record that still stands. In 1936 she married Julius A. Page Jr. and made their home in Chapel Hill. At that year's United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship Estelle Lawson Page won the medal for the lowest round during the qualifying matches and won the medal again in 1937 when she defeated Patty Berg in the finals to win the most important amateur championship in the U.S. In 1938, at Westmoreland Country Club,the two met again in the finals, this time the victory went to Berg.

Estelle Lawson Page was part of the U.S. team that won the 1938 Curtis Cup and ten years later she was part of another Curtis Cup winning team. Between 1950 and 1952 she won three straight North Carolina Women's Amateur Match Play Golf Championships and retired with twenty-two tournament victories to her credit. Following the creation of the North Carolina Sports Hall of Fame in 1963, she was part of the first group to be inducted.

Estelle Lawson Page died in 1983 and was interred in the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery in Chapel Hill.