Nancy Fitzgerald of Carmel, Ind.

Nancy Fitzgerald won the championship in 1997. (Steve Gibbons/USGA)

Captured the 1997 Senior Women’s Amateur title, the first year the championship was conducted in a match-play format, with a 1-up victory over Toni Wiesner … also tied for first at the 1994 Senior Women’s Amateur and lost in a playoff to Marlene Streit of Canada … captured the 2003 North/South Senior title … has won seven Indiana Women’s Golf Association Championships and three Indiana Women’s Golf Association State Amateur Championships … has also won the IWGA Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2001 … also captured the Indianapolis Women’s City Championship 11 times … has been inducted into the Univera 1956 graduate of the University of Indiana .. she and her husband Ed are the parents of four children … birth date: October 18, 1943 .

 

Marlene Streit of Unionville, Ontario, Canada

Three-time USGA champion, winning the 1956 U.S. Women’s Amateur and the 1985 and 1994 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur … 38-year span between her first USGA title (1956 U.S. Women’s Amateur) and her latest (1994 USGA Women’s Senior Amateur) is the second-longest among all USGA champions … runner-up in the Women’s Senior Amateur seven times, all at stroke play … 1953 British Amateur winner and 1963 Australian

Marlene Streit is a three-time USGA champion. (Steve Gibbons/USGA)

Amateur champion … won a national championship in each decade from the 1950s to the 1990s … 11-time Canadian Amateur champion, latest in 1973 … nine-time CLGA Closed Championship winner … numerous other amateur titles, including the 1956 U.S. Intercollegiate Championship … member of World Amateur Team championship squad for Canada in 1966 and 1970 (tied for 1st with Spain), 1972 and 1983 … low individual at the 1966 World Amateur in Mexico City … non-playing captain 1978, 1980, 1992, 1998 … low amateur at 1957 U.S. Women’s Open … won the North & South Amateur in 1956 and 1974 and captured the Doherty Championship four times … member of Canadian Sports Hall of Fame (1962) and Canadian Golf Hall of Fame (1971) … Order of Canada (1967) … 1953 Canadian Woman of the Year (tied with Charlotte Whitton in Canadian Press poll) … Canada’s Outstanding Athlete Award (Male or Female/Amateur or Professional) in 1951 and 1956 (Called the Lou Marsh Award) … five times Canadian Woman Athlete of the Year (1951, 1953, 1956, 1960 and 1963) … 1951, 1953 and 1956 Ontario Athlete of the Year … Honorary Director of the Canadian Professional Golf Association of Ontario … Golf World – 1994 Senior Woman Amateur of the Year … Score Magazine – 1995 Lifetime Achievement Award … began her golf career as a caddie at Lookout Point in 1947 … 1956 Rollins College graduate who also holds an honorary Doctor of Laws from Brock University in St. Catherine’s, Ontario (1973) … husband, J. Douglas Streit, and two daughters … birth date: March 9, 1934.

 

Carol Semple Thompson of Sewickley, Pa.

Has played in 93 USGA championships, with seven victories – the 1973 U.S. Women’s Amateur, the 1990 and 1997 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateurs, and the 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002 USGA Senior Women’s Amateurs … her seven USGA titles places her third all-time with Tiger Woods and Anne Sander … only Bob Jones (nine) and JoAnne Gunderson Carner (eight) have won more … won 1990 Women’s Mid-Amateur and 2001 USGA Senior Amateur at her home club, Allegheny Country Club … holds record of 12 Curtis Cup appearances … selected to the Curtis Cup team in 1974, 1976, 1980, 1982, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1996, 1998, 2000 and 2002 … also holds Curtis Cup record for most victories (18, 9-7-3 in foursomes, 9-8-1 in singles) … holed a dramatic 27-foot putt on the 18 th hole at the 2002 Curtis

Carol Semple Thompson has made winning a priority in her storied amateur career. (Steve Gibbons/USGA)

Cup to clinch the USA victory … has also played in five World Team Amateur championships, including four victorious USA squads (1974, 1980, 1988, 1994) … member of champion Pennsylvania team at 1995 USGA State Team Championships … won the British Ladies Open Amateur while reigning Women’s Amateur champ … low amateur at 1974, 1978 and 1988 U.S. Women’s Opens … has captured 21 Pennsylvania state amateur titles … president of Pennsylvania State Women’s Golf Association in 1991-92 … recipient of the 2003 USGA Bob Jones Award, the association’s top award given in recognition of distinguished sportsmanship in golf … member of the USGA Executive Committee from 1994-2000, only the second woman to serve in that capacity … her parents were both scratch golfers … father Harton (Bud) Semple was USGA President in 1974-75 and her mother, Phyllis Semple, has served on various USGA committees since 1957 … her first tournament victory was at the Western Pennsylvania Women’s Championship at age 16 when she defeated her mother in the final … father presented her the Women’s Amateur trophy (Cox Cup) in 1973 … loves to fox hunt in the fall … 1970 graduate of Hollins College … husband, Richard … birth date: October 27, 1948.

 

Marianne Towersey of Newport Beach, Calif.

Won the WGAC State Championship in 1981, 1991 and 2003 … captured

Marianne Towersey is an accomplished amateur player from California. (Steve Gibbons/USGA)

the 2002 California Senior Women’s Amateur Championship and the Southern California Championship in 2002 … also won the 2002 Southern California Women’s Masters Championship … earned medalist honors

at the 2001 Women’s Senior Amateur at Allegheny Country Club … beat JoAnn Carner in the first round of the 1967 U.S. Women’s Amateur … has captured 19 club championships at her home club, Santa Ana Country Club … 1973 graduate of Stanford … coaches the golf team at Newport Harbor High School … likes to surf when she’s not on the golf course … husband, Brian, and two sons, Chad and Patrick … birth date: January 24, 1951.