Who was the first woman golfer in Ireland?
Leona Maguire
In January, Maguire won the Portuguese Ladies Amateur Open by 15 strokes.[5][2] In April, she won a second consecutive French Under 21 title. In June, Maguire won the Irish Women's Open Strokeplay title.[6] She played for Great Britain and Ireland in the Vagliano Trophy in June where she won all three of her matches. In August, she won the British Ladies' Open Stroke Play Championship by six shots, the youngest player to ever win the event. She was chosen along with her sister Lisa in the European side which earned a 12–12 draw against the USA in the PING Junior Solheim Cup at Knightsbrook in Meath on 21 September. She scored the maximum three points in the event. Also in September Maguire was awarded the European Ladies' Amateur Golf Ranking's silver medal. In December, Leona and her sister Lisa were named jointly as the Women's Amateur of the Year at the AIB Irish Golf Writers' awards for 2011. 