Marlene Streit

Marlene Stewart Streit, OC OOnt (born March 9, 1934) is a Canadian amateur golfer, and a member of the World Golf Hall of Fame.

Marlene Streit
Personal information
Full nameMarlene Stewart Streit
Born (1934-03-09) March 9, 1934
Cereal, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canada
ResidenceWellington, Florida, U.S.
Career
CollegeRollins College
StatusAmateur
Best results in LPGA major championships
ANA InspirationDNP
Women's PGA C'shipDNP
U.S. Women's OpenT7: 1961
du Maurier Classic76th: 1985
Achievements and awards
World Golf Hall of Fame2004 (member page)
Lou Marsh Trophy1951, 1956
Bobbie Rosenfeld Award1952, 1953, 1956, 1963
Canada's Sports
Hall of Fame		1962
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame1971

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
  • 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

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". Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
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