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Canadian golfer
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 national individual
intercollegiate golf championship that same year.
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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.
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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)
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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
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British Ladies Amateur – 1953
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U.S. Women's Amateur – 1956
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Australian Women's Amateur – 1963
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North and South Women's Amateur – 1956, 1974
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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, 1957, 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 1995, she was inducted into the
Ontario Sports Hall of Fame in 1995.
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- 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
References
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^ Golf in Canada: A History, by James A. Barclay, Toronto, McClelland & Stewart, 1992.
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^ 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
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"Marlene Stewart Streit". oshof.ca.
Ontario Sports Hall of Fame. Archived from
the original on December 29, 2014. Retrieved September 23, 2014.
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