Marlene Streit
Personal information
Full nameMarlene Stewart Streit
BornMarch 9, 1934 (age 84)
Cereal, Alberta, Canada
Nationality Canada
ResidenceWellington, Florida, U.S.
CollegeRollins College
StatusAmateur
Best results in LPGA major championships

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 Fame1962
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame1971Marlene 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.

• 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

 

• In 1951 and 1956, she was awarded the Lou Marsh Trophy.
• In 1952, 1953, 1956, 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.[3]
• 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.