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| 1964 Mrs. Hulet P. Smith Mrs. Hulet P. Smith, of Pebble Beach, Calif., a former national badminton champion who took up golf in 1944, won the third Senior Women's Amateur Championship with 81-79-87-247 at the Del Paso Country Club, Sacramento, Calif. Her winning margin was one stroke over Mrs. William R. Kirkland, Jr., of New York. The defending Champion, Mrs. Allison Choate, of Rye, N.Y., shared third place with Mrs. Maurice Glick, of Pikesville, Md., at 249. Mrs. Smith led by four strokes after 36 holes, lost the lead to Mrs. Kirkland midway of the final round, then regained the advantage with three holes to play. Mrs. Kirkland's 15-foot putt for a tie barely slipped past the hole at the final green. In age class competition, Mrs. Smith won Class A (50-54); Mrs. Aubrey E. Babson, of Novato, Calif., won Class B (55-59) with 254; and Mrs. C.D. Lee, of El Paso, Texas, won Class C (60 and over) with 251. |
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COURSE ARCHITECT – John Fought, an Oregonian who won the 1977 U.S. Amateur, made revisions to the Meadows course in 1999. The redesign resembles great American courses from the 1920s and 30s with its use of directional and fore-bunkers. The original Meadows Course opened in 1969. COURSE SETUP – The USGA Course Rating/Slope Rating® for Sunriver's Meadow Course during the USGA Senior Women's Amateur Championship is: 74.4/141. Heights of grass: WHO CAN ENTER -- Open to female amateur golfers who will have reached their 50th birthday on or before Sept. 1, 2007, and have USGA Handicap Indexes not exceeding 18.4.
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