Competing in the 1931
U.S. Women's Amateur, Wilson was eliminated in the semi-finals by ultimate champion
Helen Hicks. She got some measure of satisfaction the next year when she beat Hicks, 2 and 1, in their match during the first ever
Curtis Cup held at the
Wentworth Golf Club, in
Surrey,
England. She returned to the U.S. for the 1932 Amateur but went out in the quarter-final. In the 1933 U.S. Amateur, she lost in the semi-finals to the ultimate tournament champion
Virginia Van Wie but won the medal for lowest round with a record-setting score. In 1933, Wilson partnered with
Walter Hagen to play a match at the
Bruntsfield Links in
Edinburgh,
Scotland. However, Wilson is perhaps best known as a golf journalist and writer. She was a golf journalist for
The Daily Telegraph for several decades. In 1935, she co-wrote ''So That's What I Do!'' with
Robert Allen Lewis. She also wrote the section on women's golf in the 1952 book
A History of Golf in Britain (1990 Reprint
Ailsa Inc.). She also contributed many passages concerning British men's golf. She also wrote
A Gallery of Women Golfers with the
foreword by Bernard Darwin that was published in 1961 in London by
Country Life Ltd. == Personal life ==