Marlene Streit
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| Full name | Marlene Stewart Streit | ||||||||||
| Born | March 9, 1934 Cereal, Alberta, Canada | ||||||||||
| Sporting nationality | .svg.png){kind=small} Canada | ||||||||||
| Residence | Wellington, Florida, U.S. | ||||||||||
| Career | |||||||||||
| College | Rollins College | ||||||||||
| Status | Amateur | ||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||
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Marlene Stewart Streit, OC OOnt (born March 9, 1934) is a retired Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.
Career
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 won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award for best Canadian female athlete for the fifth time in 1963.[2]
Personal life
She owns a home in Wellington, Florida.
Amateur wins
- 1951 Canadian Women's Amateur, Ontario Ladies' Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1952 CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1953 British Ladies Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1954 Canadian Women's Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1955 Canadian Women's Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1956 U.S. Women's Amateur, North and South Women's Amateur, Ontario Ladies' Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs, U.S. Women's Intercollegiate Championship
- 1957 Ontario Ladies' Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1958 Ontario Ladies' Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur
- 1959 Canadian Women's Amateur
- 1963 Australian Women's Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1968 Ontario Ladies' Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur, CLGA Close Amateurs
- 1969 Ontario Ladies' Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur
- 1970 Ontario Ladies' Amateur
- 1972 Ontario Ladies' Amateur, Canadian Women's Amateur
- 1973 Canadian Women's Amateur
- 1974 North and South Women's Amateur, Ontario Ladies' Amateur
- 1976 Ontario Ladies' Amateur
- 1977 Ontario Ladies' Amateur
- 1985 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur, CLGA Senior Women's Amateur
- 1987 CLGA Senior Women's Amateur
- 1988 CLGA Senior Women's Amateur
- 1993 CLGA Senior Women's Amateur
- 1994 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
- 2003 U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
Awards and honours
- In 1951 and 1956, Streit was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy.
- She won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award five times: in 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957, and 1963.
- In 1962, Streit was inducted into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame.
- In 1967, she was made an Officer of the Order of Canada.
- In 1971, Streit was inducted into the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame.
- In 1995, she was inducted into the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame.[3]
- In 2000, Streit 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, Streit 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". oshof.ca. Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
External links
- Histori.ca profile
- Marlene Stewart Streit at the World Golf Hall of Fame
- Canadian Golf Hall of Fame profile
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame profile
Categories:
- Canadian female golfers
- Amateur golfers
- Rollins Tars women's golfers
- Winners of ladies' major amateur golf championships
- World Golf Hall of Fame inductees
- Canadian expatriate golfers in the United States
- Golf people from Alberta
- Sportswomen from Alberta
- Golf people from Ontario
- Sportswomen from Ontario
- Northern Star Award winners
- Members of the Order of Ontario
- Officers of the Order of Canada
- 1934 births
- Living people
- 20th-century Canadian sportswomen