Dorothy Campbell Hurd Howe (1883-1945) was the first woman to dominate international golf.  Between 1905 and 1912, she won 10 national championships in America, England, Scotland, and Canada.  As Dorothy Campbell Hurd, and later as Mrs. J.V. Hurd, her count of national amateurs was three U.S., two British, three Scottish and three Canadian. In 1909, she became the first woman to win the U.S. and British Amateurs in the same year.

Hurd advanced women's golf in America by being the first to aim directly at the pin on her approaches instead of just the general vicinity of the green.  She had a tremendous short game, which she once said, "is almost second nature to me."  A deadly putter, she was even better from just off the green.  Her favorite club was a goose-necked mashie she called "Thomas."

She was elected to the World Golf Hall of Fame in 1978.