Marlene Streit

Marlene Streit
— Golfer —
Personal information
Full name	Marlene Stewart Streit
Born	(1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 Cereal, Alberta, Canada
Nationality	Canada
Residence	Wellington, Florida, U.S.
Career
College	Rollins College
Status	Amateur
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA Inspiration	DNP
Women's PGA C'ship	DNP
U.S. Women's Open	T7: 1961
du Maurier Classic	76th: 1985
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame	2004 (member page)
Lou Marsh Trophy	1951, 1956
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award	1952, 1953, 1956, 1963
Canada's Sports Hall of Fame	1962
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame	1971

Marlene Stewart Streit, OC OOnt (born March 9, 1934) is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a 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 in history to have won the Australian, British, Canadian and U.S. Women's Amateurs. She graduated from Rollins College in 1956, and won the American individual intercollegiate golf title that same year (then known as the Division of Women's and Girls' Sports (DWGS)); this event evolved into the current NCAA Women's golf championship.^[1]

Streit was a member of the Canadian team at the Espirito Santo Trophy in 1966, 1970, 1972, and 1984. She owns a home in Wellington, Florida. She won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award for best Canadian female athlete for the fifth time in 1963.^[2]

Marlene Stewart Streit was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.^[3]

Significant career wins

Ontario Junior Girls (2-time winner)
Ontario Ladies' Amateur – 1951, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1974, 1976, 1977
Ontario Senior Ladies' Amateur (6 times)
Canadian Women's Amateur – 1951, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1958, 1959, 1963, 1968, 1969, 1972, 1973
CLGA Close Amateurs – 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1968
CLGA Senior Women's Amateur – 1985, 1987, 1988, 1993
U.S. Women's Intercollegiate Championship – 1956
British Ladies Amateur – 1953
U.S. Women's Amateur – 1956
Australian Women's Amateur – 1963
North and South Women's Amateur – 1956, 1974
U.S. Senior Women's Amateur – 1985, 1994, 2003

Honours

In 1951 and 1956, she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy.
In 1952, 1953, 1956, and 1963, she won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award.
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.

Team appearances

Amateur

Espirito Santo Trophy (representing Canada): 1966, 1970, 1972, 1984

References

↑ Golf in Canada: A History, by James A. Barclay, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
↑ Immodest and Sensational: 150 Years of Canadian Women in Sport, M. Ann Hall, p.59, James Lorimer & Company Ltd., Toronto, 2008, ISBN 978-1-55277-021-4
↑ "Marlene Stewart Streit". Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 23, 2014.

External links

Recipients of the Lou Marsh Trophy

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