This Day in Golf--Oct. 19

The first U.S. Senior Women's Amateur was completed on this date in 1962. Held at Manufacturers' Golf and Country Club in Oreland, Pa., it was won by Maureen Orcutt with a score of 240, seven ahead of the legendary Glenna Collett Vare, who was 59 years old and had won six U.S. Women's Amateur titles. Orcutt also won the event in 1966.