The Journal of The Green's Ladies Golf Club
PUTTER
Typed on a limited budget in 1954. Kept alive by two women. Still rolling.
PUTTER is published by The Green's Ladies Golf Club, the oldest African American women's golf club in the Delaware Valley. It was originally founded as a print magazine by GLGC co-founder and editor Alma Fay Horn. This digital edition is dedicated to her legacy, and to every Black woman who has ever loved this game.
Four times a year, the best of PUTTER comes together as a seasonal issue — Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter — each built around a theme and released as a keepsake for our community. This is not just content. This is a record. A living archive of what Black women have always known: that this game belongs to us too.
Where Putter Began
The Story
Sometime in the mid-twentieth century, a woman named Alma Fay Horn sat down at a typewriter and wrote a letter.
She was the editor of a small golf magazine called PUTTER, published by The Green's Ladies Golf Club, the organization she helped found in 1954. The magazine had a limited budget. She had learned, on her own, how to set type, print, edit material, and write in order to keep it going. She and one other woman, Bette Simmons, were holding the whole thing together with their own hands.
She was writing to ask for help. To ask golfers to spread the word, to bring in new subscribers, to keep the stories coming. And near the end of that letter, she wrote something that has stayed true across seven decades.
“We want to be in the bright new future that is ahead for Golf.”
— Yours in golf, Alma Fay Horn, Editor of PUTTER
We found that letter during a research project into the history of The Green's Ladies Golf Club. And when we read it, we felt something shift. Because Alma Fay Horn was not just writing to golfers in her time. She was writing to us. From one GLGC editor to the next, across seventy years of history, she was passing something forward.
We are answering her.
SPRING 2026 RELEASES
We launched PUTTER in May because there was no better moment to begin. Mother’s Day weekend. The particular kind of grace that comes from learning to play a course nobody designed with you in mind and showing up anyway. These are their stories. Loved their stories? Be sure to comment on the article and tell us what impacted you most. Feel free to email PUTTER at greensladies@gmail.com to let us know how these stories touched you. Want to get these stories delivered to your inbox? Click here to join our Green’s Ladies newsletter where women and men around the world are connected to The Green’s Ladies community.
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