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Miss Maureen Orcutt

Miss Maureen Orcutt, of Englewood, N.J., became the second repeat winner at the Lakewood County Club, New Orleans, when she scored 242. Miss Orcutt won the first Senior Women's Amateur in 1962.

Mrs. Frank Goldthwaite of River Crest, Texas, was second with 248 and Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, of Philadelphia, was third with 250. Mrs. Hulet P. Smith, of Pebble Beach, Calif., did not defend her title. She had won the two previous years.

The three leaders represented different age classes. Miss Orcutt represented the 55-59-year-old division, Mrs. Goldthwaite the 50-54-year-old division, and Mrs. Vare the 60-and-over division.

 
Championship Facts

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:
Teeing ground – .275"
Fairways and driving range tee -- .450-.475"
Collars around greens – .300", approximately 30 inches wide, or one mower width
Putting greens – no height prescribed; speed: 10-10 ½ feet on the Stimpmeter.
Primary rough – 2-2 ½ "
Intermediate rough – 1 ¼", approximately 6' wide or one mower width

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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