Marlene Streit

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Marlene Streit
Personal information
Full nameMarlene Stewart Streit
Born (1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 (age 89)
Cereal, Alberta, Canada
Sporting nationalityFlag of Canada (Pantone).svg  Canada
Residence Wellington, Florida, U.S.
Career
College Rollins College
StatusAmateur
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship 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.

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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 national individual intercollegiate golf championship that same year. [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]

Significant career wins

Honours

Team appearances

Amateur

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References

  1. Golf in Canada: A History, by James A. Barclay, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
  2. 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
  3. "Marlene Stewart Streit". oshof.ca. Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.