Ada Mackenzie Challenge Trophy
Ada Mackenzie Challenge Trophy
1956 to 1970 – Junior Interprovincial
1971 to Present – Canadian Women’s Senior Championship
Canadian Golf Hall of Fame Honoured Member Ada Mackenzie was an inspiration for early women golfers in Canada, and still is today. During the first half of the 20th Century, she was one of the finest women golfers in Canada. Her accomplishments didn’t stop on the course. In 1924 she founded the Ladies Golf and Tennis Club of Toronto, a club created specifically for women. In 1930 she launched Ada Mackenzie Ltd, a quality sportswear store in Toronto. The store offered practical and comfortable apparel for women.
Ada Mackenzie also had a special interest in junior golf and took the time to encourage and advise the younger generation of female golfers. In 1955, she presented the Ada Mackenzie Trophy to the Canadian Ladies Golf Union for the Canadian Junior Inter-Provincial Championship low aggregate net score. The trophy was first played for at the Royal Colwood Golf and Country Club in Victoria B.C. In 1962 the trophy was switched to the award for the low aggregate gross score by a team.
In 1971 the Ada Mackenzie Trophy was withdrawn from junior competition and was substituted by the CLGA Challenge Trophy. It was then awarded to the newly established senior championship. The Canadian Ladies Golf Association held the first Canadian Women’s Senior Championship in 1971. In need of a trophy, and to help in celebrating Ms. Ada Mackenzie’s induction to the inaugural class of the Canadian Golf Hall of Fame, the Ada Mackenzie Challenge Trophy became the women’s senior championship trophy. Its first champion was Mrs. R.F. Lyle and the trophy was presented by Ada herself.
Junior Provincial Team Trophy
1955 Quebec
1956 Quebec
1957 Manitoba
1958 Ontario
1959 Ontario
1960 Quebec
1961 Manitoba
1962 Quebec
1963 Alberta
1964 Saskatchewan
1965 Ontario
1966 Manitoba
1967 Ontario
1968 British Columbia and Ontario
1969 New Brunswick
1970 Ontario
Canadian Women’s Senior Champions
1971 Mrs. R.F. Lyly
1972 Mrs. T.M. Lockwood
1973 P. Austin
1974 Kay Helleur
1975 Mrs. J.R. Heisler
1976 Margaret Todd
1977 Margaret Todd
1978 Anne Gookin
1979 Edie Creed
1980 Anne Gookin
1981 Edie Creed
1982 Edie Creed
1983 Alice Dye
1984 Alice Dye
1985 Marlene Streit
1986 Mrs. Cecil MacLaurin
1987 Marlene Streit
Shelly Stouffer, 2021 Women’s Senior Champion
1988 Marlene Streit
1989 Hatsy Hart
1990 Hatsy Hart
1991 Jo-Ann Lindsay
1992 Barbara Young
1993 Marlene Streit
1994 Gayle Borthwick
1995 Gayle Borthwick
1996 Nancy Fitzgerald
1997 Nancy Fitzgerald
1998 Nancy Fitzgerald
1999 Gayle Borthwick
2000 Gayle Borthwick
2001 Marilyn O’Connor
2002 Alison Murdoch
2003 Lynda Palahniuk
2004 Alison Murdoch
2005 Alison Murdoch
2006 Ginny Burkey
2007 Alison Murdoch
2008 Jackie Little
2009 Jackie Little
2010 Mary Ann Hayward
2011 Mary Ann Hayward
2012 Terrill Samuel
2013 Mary Ann Hayward
2014 Helene Chartrant
2015 Terrill Samuel
2016 Judith Kyrinis
2017 Sue Wooster
2018 Sue Wooster
2019 Judith Kyrinis
2020 No Championship
2021 Shelly Stouffer