Marlene Streit
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Marlene Stewart Streit (born March 9, 1934) is a golfer and member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
She was born in Cereal, Alberta. She learned golf from Gordon McInnis Sr. at the Lookout Point Golf Club in Fonthill, Ontario. She is the most successful Canadian amateur female golfer, and the only golfer to have won the Australian, British, Canadian and United States Women's Amateur Golf Championships. She graduated from Rollins College in 1956, and won the NCAA Women's championship that year.[1]
Marlene Stewart Streit was a member of the Canadian team at the World Amateur Golf Team Championships in 1966, 1970, 1972, and 1984.
[edit] Significant career wins
- Ontario Junior Girls (2-time winner)
- Ontario Ladies' Amateur (11 times)
- Ontario Senior Ladies' Amateur (6 times)
- Canadian Ladies Golf Association (CLGA) Open Amateurs - 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1972, and 1973.
- CLGA Close Amateurs - 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, and 1968.
- CLGA Senior Women's Amateur - 1985, 1987, 1988, and 1993
- British Ladies Amateur Golf Championship - 1953
- United States Women's Amateur Golf Championship - 1956
- Australian Women's Amateur Golf Championship - 1963
- United States Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship - 1985, 1994, 2003
- North and South Women's Amateur Golf Championship - 1956, 1974
[edit] Honours
- In 1951 and 1956, she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy.
- In 1962, she was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
- In 1967, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- In 1971, she was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
- In 2000, she was inducted into the Ontario Golf Hall of Fame.
- In 2004, she was the first Canadian inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame.
- In 2006, she was made a member of the Order of Ontario.
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| Awards | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Bob McFarlane |
Lou Marsh Trophy winner 1951 |
Succeeded by George Genereux |
| Preceded by Beth Whittall |
Lou Marsh Trophy winner 1956 |
Succeeded by Maurice Richard |
Categories: Canadian golfers | Female golfers | Amateur golfers | Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships | Members of the World Golf Hall of Fame | Canada's Sports Hall of Fame inductees | Alberta sportspeople | Members of the Order of Ontario | Officers of the Order of Canada | 1934 births | Living people | Canadian sportswomen | Rollins College alumni
