Glenna Collett Vare, née Glenna Collett, (born June 20, 1903, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died Feb. 3, 1989, Gulfstream, Fla.), American athlete who dominated ladies’s golf within the Twenties.
Both her dad and mom have been athletic, and younger Glenna Collett excelled at such sports activities as swimming and diving. She discovered to play golf when she was 14 and gained her first U.S. Women’s Amateur championship in 1922. She regained this title 5 instances (1925, 1928–30, and 1935) and was runner-up twice (1931 and 1932). She gained the Canadian championship in 1923 and 1924 and the French championship in 1925. In the mid-Twenties she gained 59 of 60 consecutive matches in event play. She was the captain of the American group within the Curtis Cup competitors in opposition to Britain in 1934, 1936, and 1948.
Collett married Edward H. Vare in 1931 and continued to play golf competitively in ladies’s beginner championships. (Women’s skilled golf didn't develop into efficiently established till after World War II.) She was one of many first six ladies elected to the Women’s Golf Hall of Fame in 1950, and in 1952 the Ladies’ Professional Golf Association honoured her by giving her identify to the Vare Trophy, awarded yearly to the lady skilled with the very best scoring common.