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Portrait by Charles Dana Gibson, 1903
Portrait by Charles Dana Gibson, 1903

Margaret Abbott (June 15, 1878 – June 10, 1955) was an American amateur golfer and the first woman to win an Olympic event credited to the U.S.: the women's golf at the 1900 Olympics. Born in Calcutta in 1878, Abbott moved with her family to Chicago in 1884. She joined the Chicago Golf Club in Wheaton, Illinois, where she was coached by Charles B. Macdonald and H. J. Whigham. In 1899, she traveled with her mother to Paris to study art. The following year, along with her mother, she signed up for a women's golf tournament without realizing it was part of the second modern Olympics. Abbott won with a score of 47 strokes and was awarded a porcelain bowl; her mother tied for seventh. In December 1902, she married the writer Finley Peter Dunne. They moved to New York and had four children. Abbott died never realizing she won an Olympic event. She was not well known until University of Florida professor Paula Welch researched her life. The New York Times published her belated obituary in 2018. (Full article...)

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as i am aware that this featured article's fac nominator prefers to keep comments out of the blurb itself, i thought it would be more appropriate for me to provide the reasoning for my edits here on the blurb talk page instead.

Margaret Abbott,  →  Portrait        captions of depictions of the subject of a biographical blurb that credit the artist generally do not also name the subject, as seen in ids 1044900402 and 1054084537
Margaret Ives Abbott  →  Margaret Abbott        biographical blurbs generally use the article title as the bolded link
. She was  →  and        reworded to conform with character limit
part of        added "part of", as presumably the golf tournament was not the entirely of the second modern olympics
without realizing that        removed to conform with character limit
Abbott won the tournament        removed to conform with character limit
47 strokes; ... Abbott received a porcelain bowl as a prize.
  →  47 strokes and was awarded a porcelain bowl;
       reworded to conform with character limit
seventh place        removed to conform with character limit
They later moved        removed to conform with character limit, as it is suggested by the order the events are presented in the blurb
at the age of 76 in 1955,        removed to conform with character limit, as the death year is already mentioned in the lifespan, and the age at death can be calculated from the lifespan
never realizing that        removed to conform with character limit
Paula Welch, a professor at the University of Florida,
  →  University of Florida professor Paula Welch
       reworded to conform with character limit

as usual, anyone should feel free to revert any of my changes if they disagree with my reasoning. dying (talk) 23:59, 6 June 2023 (UTC)[reply]