VENUE: Waynesboro Country Club opened in 1950 and was designed by Fred Findlay. This will be the first year the VSGA member club has hosted the Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship. The layout welcomed the VSGA Junior Amateur Championship in 1975 and 2002 as well as the 1971 State Open.
GROUPINGS AND STARTING TIMES: Groupings and starting times for the championship follow and will be posted on the VSGA’s Internet site at www.vsga.org.
WWW.VSGA.ORG: Log on to the VSGA Internet site (www.vsga.org) for the latest results and recaps from the 2010 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship. Starting times will begin at 8 a.m. off No. 1 tee both days. Additional championship information, including starting times, scores will also be available at www.vsga.org.
FORMAT: The championship is conducted at stroke play over 36 holes, 18 holes each day. The field will be flighted by the May 15 Handicap Index into flights. The overall champion is the player with the lowest 36-hole score. In addition, the champion and runner-up may come from any flight.
ELIGIBILITY: The championship is open to female golfers who will be at least 50 years of age by June 2, 2010. Participants must have a VSGA/USGA Handicap Index of 40.0 or less established at a VSGA member club and meet the USGA Rules of Amateur Status.
Altogether, 57 entries were accepted for the event.
PRIZES: Prizes will be awarded to the overall champion and overall runner-up as well as to the winner and runner-up in each flight. In addition, prizes will be awarded to the low senior senior (60-and-over) and the low most senior (70-and-over) as well as the first and second low net in each flight.
2009 RECAP: Alexandria’s Linda DiVall (pictured left) made par on the second extra hole, the par-4 first hole, to outlast Boodie McGurn (Richmond) and win last year’s VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship at Cavalier Golf and Yacht Club in Virginia Beach.
DiVall shot a final-round best 1-over-par 70 and concluded the championship at 4-over 142, along with McGurn, who had a final round 3-over 72. Portsmouth’s Cindy Morris and central Virginian Natalie Easterly (Richmond) each shot back-to-back rounds of 72 and concluded the championship two strokes back at 6-over 144.
DiVall claimed her first VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play title and captured the third major VSGA senior title of her career, having also won the VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship in 2003 and 2007.
DiVall, McGurn and Morris are each in this year’s VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play field.
ANOTHER STRONG FIELD: Each of last year’s four VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur semifinalists (champion Boodie McGurn of Richmond, finalist Linda DiVall of Alexandria as well as semifinalists Cindy Morris of Portsmouth and Ridgeway’s Fran Hensley) are in the field. Morris reached the round of 32 at last year’s USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at The Homestead’s Cascades Course in Hot Springs, Va.
CHAMPIONS IN THE FIELD: In addition to defending champion Linda DiVall of Alexandria, the VSGA Senior Stroke Play Championship features several VSGA Women’s Division past champions. Past VSGA Women’s Division championship winners in the field are listed below.
· Dot Bolling (Salem) – 1999, 2000 and 2002 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play champion (record three-time winner of the event); 2001 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion; 2000 VSGA Women’s Amateur champion; 1998 VSGA Women’s Stroke Play champion.
· Sherry Bowman (Manassas) – 2004 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play champion; 1993, 1996 and 2003 VSGA Women’s Stroke Play champion.
· Linda DiVall (Alexandria) – 2009 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play champion; 2003 and 2007 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion.
· Fran Hensley (Ridgeway) – 2001 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play champion; 1999 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion.
· Mimi Hoffman (Springfield) – 2006 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion; 1999 VSGA Women’s Amateur champion.
· Boodie McGurn (Richmond) – 2009 and 2004 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion; 2003 VSGA Women’s Amateur champion.
· Cindy Morris (Portsmouth) – 2005 VSGA Women’s Amateur champion; 2002 Virginias Women’s Stroke Play champion.
· Shelley Savage (Alexandria) – 2008, 2006 and 2005 VSGA Senior Stroke Play champion; 2005 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion.
· Peggy Woodard (Virginia Beach) – 1996, 1997, 1998, 2000 and 2002 VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur champion (record five-time winner of the event).
Also in the field is two-time Richmond Women’s Golf Association Amateur champion Lindsay Wortham of Richmond. Other competitors to watch, among others, include ’05 VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship runner-up Arline Hoffman (Alexandria) and ’04 VSGA Senior Women’s Am runner-up Valeta Pittman (Roanoke).
General Manager at WAYNESBORO COUNTRY Club: Rodger Doyle
GOLF PROFESSIONAL AT WAYNESBORO COUNTRY CLUB: David Sikora
SUPERINTENDENT AT WAYNESBORO COUNTRY CLUB: Bill Wintz
DIRECTIONS: Take I-64 to exit 94. Turn right on Route 340 and proceed two miles to Northgate Avenue and turn right. Northgate Avenue runs into Meadowbrook Road, where the club is located. If driving south on Route 340, turn left at Northgate Avenue.
WAYNESBORO –– Groupings and starting times for the first round of the 13th VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship at on Wednesday, June 2.
8 a.m. – Jo Ann Combs (Barhamsville); Cindy Salyer (Floyd)
8:09 a.m. – Kit Davis (Salem); Janet Cochrane (Cloverdale)
8:18 a.m. – Betty Carneal (Williamsburg); Murph Williams (Harrisonburg); Susan Munoz (Leesburg)
8:27 a.m. – Anne Gordon Greever (Richmond); Barbara Blosser (Williamsburg); Diana Strickler (Charlottesville)
8:36 a.m. – Fran Hensley (Ridgeway); Sara Cole (Salem); Valeta Pittman (Roanoke)
8:45 a.m. – Virginia Wells (Williamsburg); Nora Klein (Leesburg); Dot Bolling (Salem)
8:54 a.m. – Peggy Woodard (Virginia Beach); Arline Hoffman (Alexandria)
9:03 a.m. – Lindsay Wortham (Richmond); Cindy Morris (Portsmouth); Jackie Baxter (Virginia Beach)
9:12 a.m. – Susan Podolsky (Alexandria); Shelley Savage (Alexandria); Sherry Bowman (Manassas)
9:21 a.m. – Linda DiVall (Alexandria); Boodie McGurn (Richmond); Mimi Hoffman (Springfield)
9:30 a.m. – Marilyn Bussey (Roanoke); Deborah McCune (McLean); Isabelle Bunch (Irvington)
9:39 a.m. – Wanda Flora (Roanoke); Juanita Petrone (Dublin); Marijo Wood (Broadway)
9:48 a.m. – Sarah Robertson (Nellysford); Julie Light (Roanoke); Sally Smallwood (Herndon)
9:57 a.m. – Linda Lumsden (South Boston); Wanda Blackwell (Floyd); Bernie Light (Aldie)
10:06 a.m. – Audrey Watson (Staunton); Jackie Turner (Virginia Beach); Mollie Sellers (Harrisonburg)
10:15 a.m. – Linda Westfall (Nellysford); Fran Wray (Staunton); Charlotte McComas (Oak Hill)
10:24 a.m. – Barbara Fleming (Virginia Beach); Charlene Clancy (Sterling); Betty McDonough (Staunton)
10:33 a.m. – Leeann Carolla (Herndon); Mary Blair (Alexandria); Cheryl Crellin (Ashburn)
10:42 a.m. – Neysa Simmers (Fishersville); Marilee Johnson (Arlington); Ann Hoffer (McLean)
10:51 a.m. – Betty Lucente (Waynesboro); Janice Esser (Reston); Judy Bear (Herndon)
