Club champions

LOTS OF ROOM — Wide-open fairway at No. 8 allows long drives off the tee, but bunkers and severe slope on the green require some finesse. (Photo courtesy Rancho Bernardo Inn)

Faye Tong wins sixth Club Championship

The Rancho Bernardo Inn Women’s Golf Club Championship is one of two major tournaments sponsored by the Club each year (the other is the President’s Cup). The Club Championship is a two-day tournament, generally scheduled in June. Format is stroke play, gross score. In 2022, poor course conditions forced the cancellation of the tournament for the first time in the Club’s 60-year history.

Since the first Club Championship in 1964, only one player, Faye Tong, has won the trophy in six consecutive tournaments. Three other players have won the event five times each: Mary Anderson, Gloria Morrison and Carolyn Swanson. One player, Wilma Weiser, has won the event four times. Weiser also was the Club Champion at Torrey Pines Women’s Golf Club in 1958 and 1967. Here is a complete list of Club Champions, from 1964 through 2023:

  • 1964      Wilma Weiser
  • 1965      Fran Eastin
  • 1966      Wilma Weiser
  • 1967      Wilma Weiser
  • 1968      Wilma Weiser
  • 1969      Helen Jones
  • 1970      Mary Anderson
  • 1971      Mary Anderson
  • 1972      Joan Gould
  • 1973      Tookie Morriss
  • 1974      Tookie Morriss
  • 1975      Mary Anderson
  • 1976      Mary Anderson
  • 1977      Mary Anderson
  • 1978      Gloria Morrison
  • 1979      Ellen Austin
  • 1980      Gloria Morrison
  • 1981      Gloria Morrison
  • 1982      Gloria Morrison
  • 1983      Gloria Morrison
  • 1984      Carolyn Swanson
  • 1985      Carolyn Swanson
  • 1986      Mary Travers
  • 1987      Carolyn Swanson
  • 1988      Carolyn Swanson
  • 1989      Eleanor Swinehart
  • 1990      Carolyn Swanson
  • 1991      Sue Schakel
  • 1992      Mary Houston
  • 1993      Diane Lee
  • 1994      Patty Felsinger
  • 1995      Mary Houston
  • 1996      Jan Keck
  • 1997      Joanne Kim
  • 1998      Rosemary Barton
  • 1999      Kathy Gentile
  • 2000      Jan Keck
  • 2001      Rosemary Barton
  • 2002      Jan Keck
  • 2003      Mary Ann Castor
  • 2004      Mary Ann Castor
  • 2005      Iris Kohler
  • 2006      Gina Rogers
  • 2007      Gina Rogers
  • 2008      Sallie Britzman
  • 2009      Gina Rogers
  • 2010      Linda Clark
  • 2011      Sallie Britzman
  • 2012      Diane Covelli
  • 2013      Diane Covelli
  • 2014      Diane Covelii
  • 2015      Erin Rowland
  • 2016      Erin Rowland
  • 2017      Faye Tong
  • 2018      Faye Tong
  • 2019      Faye Tong
  • 2020      Faye Tong
  • 2021      Faye Tong
  • 2022      Tournament canceled
  • 2023      Faye Tong