Phyllis Preuss

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Phyllis A. Preuss (born c.1939) is an American golf champion. She was runner-up to Anne Quast at the 1961 United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship and earned the Medal for the lowest round at the 1967 Championship.

In 1964 Phyllis Preuss won the North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship at Pinehurst Resort then captured the prestigious event a second time in 1967. She won the 1965 and 1968 Women's Southern Golf Association Amateur Championship and the 1967 Women's Eastern Amateur Golf Championship. She was the low amateur at the 1968 and 1969 U.S. Women's Open and was a member of the United States team at the Curtis Cup in 1962, 1964, 1966, 1968, and 1970.

In 1991 Preuss won the United States Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina. On the second day of the Championship she fired a 67, the lowest 18-hole score in its history.