Marlene Streit | |||||||||||
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Personal information | |||||||||||
Full name | Marlene Stewart Streit | ||||||||||
Born | Cereal, Alberta, Canada | March 9, 1934||||||||||
Sporting nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||
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 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 owns a home in Wellington, Florida. She won the Bobbie Rosenfeld Award for best Canadian female athlete for the fifth time in 1963.[2]