Which golfer inspired the character Jordan Baker?

The golfer who inspired the character Jordan Baker was Edith Cummings.

Cummings was a prominent American amateur golfer and Chicago socialite during the Jazz Age. Fitzgerald knew her through the same wealthy social circles connected with Ginevra King, who helped inspire Daisy Buchanan. Cummings’s public image combined athletic accomplishment, fashionable status, and modern flapper-era independence—qualities reflected in Jordan’s characterization.

Cummings won the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 1923 and became the first golfer, and the first female athlete, to appear on the cover of Time magazine, on August 25, 1924. Fitzgerald’s Jordan is not a biography of Cummings: the novel adds fictional details, including Jordan’s reputation for bending the rules in golf. The name “Jordan Baker” is also generally associated with two automobile brands, the Jordan Motor Car Company and the Baker Motor Vehicle company, rather than with Cummings’s own name.