page_title: Edith Cummings
section_title: Golf victories
hierarchical_section_title: Edith Cummings / Golf victories
caption_attribution_description: English: Time Magazine, Volume IV Issue 8, August 25, 1924The cover shows the 1923 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion, Edith Cummings.
context_page_description: Edith Cummings Munson, popularly known as The Fairway Flapper, was an American socialite and one of the premier amateur golfers during the Jazz Age. She was one of the Big Four debutantes in Chicago during World War I. She attained fame in the United States following her 1923 victory in the U.S. Women's Amateur. On August 25, 1924, she became the first golfer and first female athlete to appear on the cover of Time magazine. She also was the literary model for the character of Jordan Baker in F. Scott Fitzgerald's novel The Great Gatsby.
context_section_description: Following her graduation from Westover School in 1917, Cummings pursued tournament golf where she garnered the sobriquet of "the Fairway Flapper." In 1919, she qualified to compete in the U.S. Women's Amateur for the first time. Cummings and her brother Dexter had learned to play golf from their parents at the Onwentsia Club in Lake Forest, Illinois. Both her father and mother had been club champions. Edith had won the club championship in 1918. Her sibling Dexter won the intercollegiate championship in 1923 and in 1924 and the Western Amateur championship in 1925.
  In 1921, Cummings competed in the British Ladies Amateur with other famous female golfers such as Alexa Stirling and Marion Hollins. The next year, Cummings entered the U.S. Women's Amateur, where she was in match play against Glenna Collett, then an 18-year-old from Rhode Island, who became known as one of the great female golfers of the 1920s. Cummings lost on the final hole. She won the U.S Women's Amateur in 1923, earning her the cover photo on Time as well as profiles in Vogue, Ladies' Home Journal, and many newspapers. She also won the Women's Western Amateur in 1924.
caption: Cummings on the cover of Time magazine in August 1924.
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