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Marlene Streit

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Marlene Streit
Personal information
Full nameMarlene Stewart Streit
Born (1934-03-09) March 9, 1934 (age 90)
Cereal, Alberta, Canada
Sporting nationality Canada
ResidenceWellington, Florida, U.S.
Career
CollegeRollins College
StatusAmateur
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron ChampionshipDNP
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

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.

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]

She owns a home in Wellington, Florida.

Significant career wins

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Honours

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Team appearances

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Amateur

References

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  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.
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