Marlene Streit

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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]

She owns a home in Wellington, Florida.

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

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.