Streit edges Towersey in overtime

Newport Beach golfer Marianne Towersey and Canadian Marlene Streit

needed 24 holes Thursday to decide who would advance to the final of

the United States Golf Association’s Senior Women’s Amateur

Championship at the Barton Creek Resort & Club in Austin, Texas.

Towersey, 52, fought valiantly against the 1956 U.S. Women’s

Amateur champion, but the 69-year-old Streit earned a 1-up victory in

one match-play semifinal on the 5,762-yard, par-72 course.

Towersey, the 19-time women’s champion at Santa Ana Country Club,

squared the match on the 17th hole when Streit hit her tee shot into

the bunker and two-putted.

The two matched pars on 18 and stayed even until the 24th hole,

the par-4, 310-yard sixth hole. Towersey conceded after she hit her

approach shot into a greenside bunker and needed three shots to exit.

Streit won the first two holes before Towersey evened the match by

claiming the fourth and fifth holes. The two stayed tied until Streit

won the 16th hole.