To Marjorie Edey, the magnificent collection of silver trays and trophies earned during a 42 year career served merely as an embarrassment to her, not as a reminder of her unassuming prowess on a golf course. When asked to describe her success, Edey simply answered that she had been “very fortunate”, or that her opponents had been “unfortunate”. Yet through this modest mixture of circumstance, Edey won the Charleswood women’s club title an astonishing 36 times, was a five-time provincial champion, a six-time City and District tournament winner, and won the provincial senior crown on three occasions. Edey was also a member of the interprovincial women’s team at least twenty times as she admitted having lost precise count after a run of twelve consecutive years (1947-59) on the squad.

Despite these formidable credentials, Edey played golf strictly for the love of the game. Born in Winnipeg, Edey began to play relatively late (for champion golfers) at 24 years of age and, even then, almost by accident. Her mother served as a caterer for the Charleswood Club and when Edey came to assist her, playing a round on the course “just came naturally”. Swinging a golf club came easy to Edey. Athletically inclined as a young woman, Edey played basketball and cricket during a seven year stay in England, and tennis and badminton upon her return to Canada. Within a year, she won the first of 36 club titles at Charleswood.

In September of 1980, Charleswood members recognized Edey’s immense contribution to their club, not to mention her impact on the game at the provincial and national levels, and retired the Alcrest Cup which was emblematic of the women’s club championship that she had dominated for so long. In its place is the Edey Cup, which perpetuates the name of a great, gracious lady and competitor who has earned her place in the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame.