Maryland Golf Hall of Fame Class of 2026: Jane Mason

Jane Schiller Mason was born on March 7, 1939, in Salisbury, Maryland. Growing up on the Eastern Shore, she began competing alongside her father at Green Hill Yacht & Country Club and was challenging the region's best golfers in state and regional amateur tournaments by age six. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she developed into one of the most formidable women's amateurs in the state's history.

Mason's playing record is among the most impressive in Maryland women's golf. She captured 13 Women's Club Championships at Green Hill and won the Annual Pepsi Invitational a record 10 times. She dominated the Delmarva region as well, claiming the Delmarva Peninsula Golf Association Championship 12 times. On the state stage, Mason won the MSGA Women's Amateur Championship in 1965 and 1974 and added four Maryland Senior titles. Her Middle Atlantic resume is equally formidable, with four MAGA Women's Championships spanning three decades and seven MAGA Senior Women's Championships. She qualified for the USGA Girls' Junior Championship at age sixteen, and when she later qualified for the U.S. Senior Women's Amateur, she finished ninth in the field.

Off the course, Mason's contributions to the growth of women's golf in Maryland are profound and lasting. She was a founding member of the MSGA Women's Division in 1995 and served as its second President. She was a driving force behind the creation of the Maryland Women's Open in 1997, an event that would not have come to fruition without her vision and leadership. She served as a member of the USGA Women's Mid-Amateur Championship Committee. Mason was inducted into the Middle Atlantic Golf Association Hall of Fame in 2002 and the Eastern Shore Golf Hall of Fame and received the MSGA Women's Division Distinguished Service Award in 2008.