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Mrs. Mark A. Porter

Mrs. Mark A. Porter, of Cinnaminson, N.J., became the first Women's Amateur Champion (1949) to win the Senior Women's Championship. Mrs. Porter shot 75-77-78-230 for 54 holes at the Dunes Golf and Beach Club, in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

She birdied the 18th hole, a par 5, to win by one stroke over Mrs. Paul Dye, Jr., of Delray Beach, Fla. Mrs. Dye had rounds of 79-77-75-231. They were the only players to break 80 for all three rounds.

Mrs. Phillip J. Cudone, of Myrtle Beach, was third with rounds 81-76-78-235. Mrs. Cudone won the Group 2 competition. Mrs. Robert MacLaurin, the defending Champion, from Savannah, Ga., finished fourth with a score of 236. The entry was 120.

 
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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