Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt

Edean Anderson Ihlanfeldt, pronounced island-felt,

Anderson began training at age 13; in 1944, at age 14, she won her first out of six consecutive Montana State Women's Amateur golf championships (1944–49),[2] with a local outlet calling her a child prodigy.^[3] In 1949, Anderson moved to Corvallis, Oregon to attend Oregon State University,^[2] where she joined the sorority Alpha Phi.^[4] While there, she practiced with friend and fellow golfer Grace DeMoss, competing as both partners and opponents at times.^[2] Anderson would continue a streak of winning one major championship a year until 1954. That year Anderson met her husband Robert Ihlanfeldt while playing golf. He proposed a week later, and the two were married in two months.^[3][5]

Career

During the first two decades of her career after graduation, Ihlanfeldt won numerous tournaments: "five Pacific Northwest titles, the Washington state crown four times, the Trans-Mississippi championship, and the 1952 Canadian Open crown."^[3]

In 1974, Ihlanfeldt brought the

Ihlanfeldt died April 27, 2020.[6]

Amateur wins

• 1944 Montana State Women's Amateur
• 1945 Montana State Women's Amateur
• 1946 Montana State Women's Amateur
• 1947 Montana State Women's Amateur
• 1948 Montana State Women's Amateur
• 1949 Montana State Women's Amateur, Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur
• 1951 Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur
• 1952 Canadian Women's Amateur
• 1953 Women's Trans-Mississippi Amateur
• 1961 Washington State Women's Amateur
• 1962 Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur, Washington State Women's Amateur
• 1963 Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur, Washington State Women's Amateur
• 1964 Pacific Northwest Women's Amateur
• 1975 Washington State Women's Amateur
• 1982
  U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
• 1986 Pacific Northwest Senior Women's Amateur
• 1987 Pacific Northwest Senior Women's Amateur
• 1988 Pacific Northwest Senior Women's Amateur

References