Golf Network News
Saturday 22 September 1956AmateurYear in Review
Streit wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Meridian Hills Country Club, Indianapolis, Indiana · Monday 17 to Saturday 22 September 1956
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
11 h 53 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 49° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R121°/11°C · wind 21 km/h NW, gusts 44 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R219°/6°C · wind 7 km/h W, gusts 17 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R320°/8°C · wind 25 km/h WNW, gusts 51 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R414°/3°C · wind 13 km/h N, gusts 30 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R522°/5°C · wind 22 km/h SSE, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R629°/17°C · wind 21 km/h SSW, gusts 43 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the town centre Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
Runners-up and the shots that cost them: not yet researched.
Same week
Nothing else in our record that week.
Women's amateur championship
U.S. Women's Amateur
Meridian Hills C.C., Indianapolis
2 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: JoAnne Gunderson Carner
To par and margin not yet researched.
The golfer
b. 1934-03-09, Cereal, Alberta, Canada; Canada; age 22 at the win (year page)
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet
From the papers
No clipping yet