This Day in Golf--Aug. 17

JoAnne Gunderson Carner won the U.S. Women's Amateur on this date in 1968, beating Anne Quast Sander, 5 and 4, at Birmingham (Mich.) Country Club. It was Carner's fifth and final Amateur victory before she went to play the LPGA Tour. Glenna Collett Vare holds the record with six victories. Carner is also second to Vare in "most times in the final" with seven, one behind Vare.