When Edith Mauriel Bremner of Ottawa, Ontario married John Rogers of Winnipeg in the summer of 1929 and they decided to live in Winnipeg, women’s golf in Manitoba was about to become home to a new champion golfer. Although they moved back to Ottawa in 1942, she had a lasting impact on women’s golf in Manitoba during those 13 years.
Born on August 31, 1903, upon moving to Winnipeg, Rogers joined St. Charles Country Club. She immediately had fine competition from club mate and Honoured Member of the Manitoba Golf Hall Of Fame Isa Bearisto who won six Manitoba women’s amateur titles from 1925 to 1940.
In 1932 and 1938, Rogers won the Manitoba Women’s Amateur Championship title. She added City and District championships in 1940 and 1942.
In 1937, St Charles hosted the Canadian Ladies Golf Union Open Championship which was the predecessor to today’s Canadian Women’s Amateur Golf Championship. Rogers won the Championship on her home course in decisive fashion, 8 and 7, in the final match Rogers thereby became the first woman from Manitoba to win the Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship.
For her golfing accomplishments Mauriel (Bremner) Rogers was inducted into the Manitoba Sports Hall of Fame in 2004. She passed away on March 6, 2001.
Mauriel (Bremner) Rogers is an inductee into the Manitoba Golf Hall of Fame and Museum Inc. September 19, 2016.