As the LPGA Tour winds down its
season, one thing is clear: Nobody has yet
come close to threatening Sandra Post as
Canada’s most successful professional
golfer.
Post, 62, won eight LPGA events. Her
first win was a major, the 1968 LPGA
Championship, where she defeated Hall
of Famer Kathy Whitworth in a playoff. In
1979, she was awarded the Lou Marsh
Trophy as Canada’s athlete of the year.
In 2003, Post was awarded the Order of
Canada, the country’s highest honour.
These days Post teaches at her golf
school at the Glen Eagle Golf Club in
Bolton, Ont., and also at the Diamond in
the Ruff, a peaceful, nine-hole course
in Muskoka, Ont. Post also worked with
novice golfer Loral Dean to help the be-
ginner learn the basics of the game. Dean
wrote a book from those experiences titled
“Sandra Post and Me,” and it provides a
course of action that would be useful to
any new golfer.
Given Post’s accomplishments, it is
interesting how rare it is that a discus-
sion occurs at clubs about who is the best
female professional from Canada. Maybe
that is because Post is the clear winner in
this category. Or maybe it is because so
much attention is focused on men’s golf
that the women’s game seems almost an
afterthought.
In Canada, there is endless emphasis
on how Mike Weir, in particular, is faring,
and far too little on how the women are
doing. A more balanced approach is in
order.
Many years have passed since Post was
making her mark on the LPGA Tour. As a
teacher, and somebody who is involved in
Canadian golf on many levels, including
television work, she remains passionate
about the game. That passion was her
hallmark. She was only a teenager when
she moved on her own from Oakville, Ont.,
to Boynton Beach, Fla. Post was going to
find a way to develop her game.
She developed it all right, and she has
won four more LPGA events than any
other Canadian golfer. In her prime, a
caddie known as Stickman said this about
Post: “She’s tough. She’s gutsy. She’s got
all the shots. She wants to win, thinks she
can win every time she tees it up. She’s
always at that flag, always giving the full
putt. Week in and week out pick up the
paper and there’s her name. Sandra Post,
the Canadian, the Golden Canadian. The
lady can flat play.”
The lady who could flat play would like
nothing more than to see another Golden
Canadian come along. l
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