Vicki Thomas
Vicki Thomas ( Rawlings, born 27 October 1954) is a Welsh amateur golfer. She played in six successive Curtis Cup matches from 1982 to 1992. She won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship eight times and the Welsh Women's Open Stroke Play Championship five times. Golf career Thomas won the Welsh Girls' Championship in 1973, beating Tegwen Perkins at the 19th hole. She competed for Wales in the Girls Home Internationals from the inaugural event in 1969, when she was 14, to 1973. She made her debut for Wales in the Women's Home Internationals in 1971 and the European Ladies' Team Championship from 1973. However she made little impact outside Wales until 1979, although she was runner-up in 1977 Newmark International at Woodhall Spa, nine strokes behind the winner, Dinah Henson. In 1979 Thomas won the Welsh Ladies' Amateur Championship and was runner-up in the Ladies' British Open Amateur Stroke Play Championship, two strokes behind Mary McKenna. She also played in the Vagliano Trophy and then in the Commonwealth Trophy in Australia. Despite her good performance in 1979 she was not selected for the 1980 Curtis Cup team, being second reserve. Competing as Vicki Thomas, she was runner-up in the 1980