The United States Senior Women's Amateur Golf Championship was launched in 1962 as an annual tournament for female amateur golfing competitors at least 50 years of age. The format began as a 54-hole stroke play competition over three days until 1997 when it was changed to a match play event. Sectional qualifying was first implemented for the 2000 championship.
The U.S. Senior Women's Amateur operates through the auspices of the United States Golf Association.
In 1977 Dorothy Germain Porter became the first U.S. Women's Amateur champion to win the Seniors' title.
Starting in 2018, the reigning champion and runner-up, and the preceding year's champion, will be eligible to participate in the U.S. Senior Women's Open.
Winners
- 2020 Canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[1]
- 2019 Lara Tennant
- 2018 Lara Tennant
- 2017 Judith Kyrinis
- 2016 Ellen Port
- 2015 Karen Garcia
- 2014 Joan Higgins
- 2013 Ellen Port
- 2012 Ellen Port
- 2011 Terri Frohnmayer
- 2010 Mina Hardin
- 2009 Sherry Herman
- 2008 Diane Lang
- 2007 Anna Schultz
- 2006 Diane Lang
- 2005 Diane Lang
- 2004 Carolyn Creekmore
- 2003 Marlene Streit
- 2002 Carol Semple Thompson
- 2001 Carol Semple Thompson
- 2000 Carol Semple Thompson
- 1999 Carol Semple Thompson
- 1998 Gayle Borthwick
- 1997 Nancy Fitzgerald
- 1996 Gayle Borthwick
- 1995 Jean Smith
- 1994 Marlene Streit
- 1993 Anne Quast Sander
- 1992 Rosemary Thompson
- 1991 Phyllis Preuss
- 1990 Anne Quast Sander
- 1989 Anne Quast Sander
- 1988 Lois Hodge
- 1987 Anne Quast Sander
- 1986 Constance Guthrie
- 1985 Marlene Streit
- 1984 Constance Guthrie
- 1983 Dorothy Germain Porter
- 1982 Edean Ihlanfeldt
- 1981 Dorothy Germain Porter
- 1980 Dorothy Germain Porter
- 1979 Alice Dye
- 1978 Alice Dye
- 1977 Dorothy Germain Porter
- 1976 Cecile Maclaurin
- 1975 Alberta Bower
- 1974 Justine B. Cushing
- 1973 Gwen Hibbs
- 1972 Carolyn Cudone
- 1971 Carolyn Cudone
- 1970 Carolyn Cudone
- 1969 Carolyn Cudone
- 1968 Carolyn Cudone
- 1967 Marge Mason
- 1966 Maureen Orcutt
- 1965 Loma Smith
- 1964 Loma Smith
- 1963 Marion Choat
- 1962 Maureen Orcutt
Multiple winners
- 5 wins: Carolyn Cudone
- 4 wins: Dorothy Germain Porter, Anne Quast, Carol Semple Thompson
- 3 wins: Marlene Streit, Diane Lang, Ellen Port
- 2 wins: Loma Smith, Maureen Orcutt, Alice Dye, Constance Guthrie, Gayle Borthwick, Lara Tennant
References
- ^ "U.S. Open to cancel qualifying, have all-exempt field; 4 more USGA events nixed". Golfweek. May 18, 2020.