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Thursday 25 June 1953AmateurYear in Review

Streit wins the Women's Amateur

Royal Porthcawl Golf Club, Porthcawl, Wales

The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.

The weather

16 h 23 m

of daylight on the final day, the sun 62° up at noon, and that night a waxing gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).

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The name over time

  1. The Women's Amateur

1893–2026 in our record, 123 editions.

The ones it got away from

Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.

Same week

Women's amateur championship

The Women's Amateur

Royal Porthcawl, Porthcawl

2 of 5 researched

Winner

Marlene Stewart Streit

7 & 6 (36-hole final)Final

Runner-up: Philomena Garvey

To par and margin not yet researched.

The golfer

b. 1934-03-09, Cereal, Alberta, Canada; Canada

Marlene Stewart Streit’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet

From the papers

No clipping yet