Speaking about collegiate women's golf...
Way back when, I was a college classmate with Marlene Stewart - a very polite and talented Canadian golfer tucked away in Winter Park, Florida where the weather was dramatically better than Cereal, Alberta, Canada.
Marlene was a quiet , efficient destroyer on the golf course. Women's collegiate golf was active but hardly as prominent as it is today but there were some strong players. Marlene won everything in sight - - - and continued after college.
1953 - winner of British Ladies Amateur (Marlene was 19)
She won 11 Canadian Ladies Amateurs.
1956 - winner of U. S. Women's Amateur
1963 - winner of Australian Women's Amateur
When she was 69 she won her third U. S. Women's Senior Amateur
2004 - Inducted into the World Golf Hall ol Fame, the first Canadian so honored.
Marlene was/is five-feet tall and back then probably weighed 115 pounds carrying two bags of practice balls.
Recently, the book, "A Disorderly Compendium of Golf"
(ISBN-13: 978-0-7611-4084-9) had a one-page article on Marlene carrying the above data.
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