Alison Murdoch

Category: Amateur Player

Alison Murdoch

Inducted: 2013

Born: November 13, 1949
Place of Birth: Ottawa, Ontario

Alison Murdoch’s career as an amateur golfer began in Quebec where she won the Quebec Junior Girls Championship in 1961 as well as numerous regional championships. However, her national success did not come to fruition until 2002, when she won her first of four Canadian Senior Women’s Championships. Since that time, she has won internationally, capturing the British and Irish Senior events, won two Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) Senior and Mid-Amateur Championships as well as the British Columbia, Alberta and Washington State senior titles.

International:

  • 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 Irish Senior Women’s Open Champion
  • 2007 Senior Ladies’ British Amateur Champion
  • 2005, 2011 PNGA Senior Women’s Champion
  • 2006, 2008 PNGA Women’s Mid-Am Champion
  • 2010, 2014 Washington State Senior Women’s Amateur Champion
  • 2010 Washington State Champion of Champions

National:

  • 2002, 2004, 2005, 2007 Canadian Senior Women’s Champion
  • 2010, 2011 Canadian Super Senior Women’s Champion

Provincial:

  • 1967 Quebec Junior Girls’ Champion
  • 2005, 2009 British Columbia Senior Women’s Champion 
  • 2010, 2012 Alberta Senior Ladies Amateur Champion

Regional:

  • 1977, 1987, 1993, 1994, 1996 Ottawa City and District Champion
  • 1997 Ottawa District Match Play Champion
  • 2000-2009, 2012 British Columbia Zone 5 Senior Women’s Amateur Champion
  • 2001, 2003, 2005-2009, 2012 British Columbia Zone 5 Women’s Amateur Champion

Teams:

  • 1997, 1998 Ontario – Quebec Challenge Matches team member
  • 2000-2007, 2009-2012 British Columbia Senior Women’s Provincial Team Member
  • 2001 British Columbia Women’s Provincial Team member
  • 2006-2017 British Columbia Team Member PNGA Cup

Other items of note:

  • 12 Top 10’s in 13 appearances at the Canadian Senior Women’s Championship

Awards:

PNGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year – 2004, 2005, 2007, 2010, 2012

Inducted to the BC Golf Hall of Fame in 2009

Inducted to the Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame in 2013

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