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Former Pupil Biographies
Ida Provis [nee Kyle] (1893 - 1986)
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Ida Louise was one of six children - three girls and
three boys - born in St Andrews on 11th May 1893 to Dr David Hamilton Kyle, a local GP, and Laura
Margaret Parr. The family initially lived in Queen's Gardens but
later moved to 16, The Links.
She was runner-up in Scottish Ladies Championship 1911 and
represented Scotland in the International Matches 1910 & 1911. She won
the Fife County Cup in 1913 and the Scottish Victory Cup 1919
(Much more information can be found in 'The Golfing Kyles of St
Andrews' by Dr Eve Soulsby, former Principal Teacher of Geography in
Madras College). |
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The School Notes of the
Madras College Magazine
for June 1909
reports:
"Elsie Kyle's victory in the Ladies' Golf Championship of Scotland at
Machrihanish was as popular as it was deserved, and we offer her our
heartiest congratulations. We look forward to her winning the Open
Championship at no distant date. Ida Kyle has also made herself a
reputation and may be expected to follow in her sister's footsteps. Theirs
is anther instance of the happy combination of work and play, for both did
splendid work in their classes this session, and the Lady Champion, who is
only seventeen, passed the recent Preliminary Examination of St. Andrews
university in English and Higher Latin."
The School Notes of the
Madras College Magazine
for Summer 1911
reports:
Last year we chronicled the victory in the Scottish
Ladies' Golf Championship of Miss Elsie Kyle, who was successful for the
second time in succession. This year Miss Kyle did not compete, but her
sister, Ida, all but secured the trophy. After a series of splendid
victories, in the course of which she was never taken beyond the fifteenth
green, she was beaten in the final on the last green by one hole, by Miss
Grant Suttie, the Open Champion of 1910. The excitement amongst the pupils
was, needless to say, intense, and there was no doubt as to which of the
competitors the majority of the crowd of five thousand people favoured.
Once or twice Miss Kyle had to restrain the enthusiasm of her supporters
when she had holed out before her opponent. We are proud of such pupils,
for by her thorough sportsmanlike behaviour in the competition, no less
than by her skill in the game, Ida Kyle is a credit to the school and to
the city.
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