Royals Hall of Fame
Mack, who grew up taking lessons at Willow Oaks Country Club located in Richmond, Va., was not allowed to play golf on a high school team.
When she went on to Queens, there were few women who played golf and still fewer who played on a collegiate team, but they managed a few matches against one another. However, there was the Virginia Collegiate Championship at Mary Baldwin in Staunton where Mack dominated the playing field winning in 1964 and 1966, and was the runner-up in 1965.
After graduating from Queens with a degree in Art, Mack went on to claim four Virginia State Golf Association Women’s Amateur titles (1977, 1978, 1982 and 1992) and is the only player to triumph in the event over a three-decade span. In her 1977 Women’s Am triumph, she bested six-time Women’s Am champion Robbye King-Youel of Charlottesville, prevailing for a victory in 37 holes at The Homestead’s Cascades Course.
In addition, she represented the Virginia team at the annual Virginias-Carolinas Women’s Team Matches from 1967-73, 1976-88and 1990-97, captaining the team on two occasions.
In national competitions, Mack qualified for and competed in the U.S. Women’s Open and U.S. Women’s Amateur championships three times and took part in numerous Trans-National championships.
Mack won 15 Richmond Women’s Golf Association titles, including posting three straight victories in the event from 1985-87.
In 1991 Mack was sent to Hiroshima, Japan for a competition to Open the Forrest Hills Golf Course. In 2000, Mack was named one of “Four Aces” of Virginia women’s golf, along with Robbye King Unger, Lily Harper Martin and Mary Patton Janssen.
In April of 2009, Mack was inducted into the Virginia Sports Hall of Fame; the only woman in that class. Mack also served eight years on the VGSA Board of Directors and ten years on the course ratings and rules committees.
A retired art teacher at Richmond’s Hermitage High School, where she taught for more than 30 years, Mack is a talented painter who was honored as Richmond’s “Undiscovered Artist of the Year” in 1971.
