VENUE: Indian Creek Yacht and Country Club was designed by Buddy Loving and originally opened in 1955.

 

More recently, the club hired designer Tom Clark to oversee renovations to the course. Like his work at other Virginia courses such as Cedar Point Country Club in Suffolk, Clark made excellent modifications that heightened the interest and challenge for the golfer without materially altering its original routing or design characteristics. The changes were completed in 2007, and the layout retained its tree-lined playing corridors. The redesign accentuates the beautiful views of Indian Creek, which are now complemented by improved playing surfaces, including A1/A4 bentgrass greens and 419 bermudagrass fairways.

 

The VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship is making its first visit to Indian Creek Yacht & Country Club.

 

ADMISSION: Admission to the championship is open to the public and FREE of charge.

 

WWW.VSGA.ORG: Log on to the VSGA Internet site (www.vsga.org) for the latest results and recap from the 2010 VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship.

 

GROUPINGS AND STARTING TIMES: Groupings and starting times are listed below and will be posted on the VSGA’s Web site at www.vsga.org.

 

SCHEDULE: The starting field consists of 52 girls’ golfers, ages 18-and-under, will play 36 holes of stroke play, 18 holes each day. Girls in the 11-and-under age group will play two nine-hole rounds. The 12-18 year-old participants will be divided into flights based on first round scores and flight winners may come from any age group. The overall champion may come from any age group, excluding the 11-and-under division.

 

CAN I PLAY?: The VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship is open to female amateur golfers who have not reached their 19th birthday by July 14, 2010 and are not attending a college or technical school. Those juniors who have graduated high school, regardless of age, may only play the season following high school graduation. Participants must meet the USGA Rules of Amateur Status.

 

2009 RECAP: Paige Reese of South Hill (pictured right) carded two consecutive rounds of 73 to post a wire-to-wire win at last year’s Junior Girls’ Championship at Loudoun Golf and Country Club in Purcellville.

 

Owner of a one-stroke lead entering final round play, Reese finished the championship at 2-over 146 and claimed her first VSGA title. She finished one stroke clear of northern Virginian Shabril Brewer of Herndon and overall runner-up Lauren Coughlin of Chesapeake, who each finished at 3-over 147.

 

Centreville’s Sara Stanley registered her second straight round of 74 and finished two off the pace. Oak Hill’s Amanda Steinhagen completed play three back after closing with 2-over 74 (149, +5).

 

Reese, Brewer, Coughlin and Steinhagen are all in this year’s field.

STEINHAGEN WINS VSGA WOMEN’S AMATEUR: It’s a safe bet that no competitor is riding higher than Steinhagen, who won last week’s VSGA Women’s Amateur Championship at Glenmore Country Club in Charlottesville.

The spring graduate of Oakton High School played a pivotal stretch of holes in five under par and staved off hard-charging Lauren Greenlief of Oakton to post a 2 and 1 victory in the deciding match on Friday, July 9. The championship’s medalist and top seed, Steinhagen, 18, shot the stroke-play equivalent of four under par to take home her first VSGA title in the association’s premier women’s event.

The match featured exceptional play much of the way. An 11-hole stretch from Nos. 6-17 produced nine birdies. Steinhagen enjoyed the better of it, collecting five birdies to build as much as a 4-up lead during that span, before Greenlief answered in the late stages.
 

ANOTHER STRONG FIELD: This year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship features a strong field of rising players.

 

·         Lyberty Anderson, 14, of Chesterfield. Anderson, a student at Bailey Bridge Middle School, recently repeated as the Richmond Women’s Golf Association Amateur champion a year after becoming the youngest winner in the event’s 83-year history in 2009.

·         Ju-Hee Bae, 15, of Fairfax, the girls’ long-drive champion at the Canadian Junior Golf Association Adams Golf Junior Classic in Toronto.

·         Elizabeth Bose, 13, of Norfolk, a fourth-place finisher in the 12-13 age division at last year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship.

·         Caryn Cobb, 17, of Norfolk.

·         Katherine Connell, 17, of Midlothian, the second flight winner and seventh-place finisher overall at last year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship.

·         Chesapeake’s Lauren Coughlin, 17, of Midlothian, the runner-up at last year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship. Coughlin finished second at the 2009 Virginia High School League Girls’ Open Golf Championship.

·         Stephanie Eybers, 18, of Haymarket, finished second at an International Junior Golf Tour event at Traditional National Golf Club in Hardeeville, S.C.

·         Fredericksburg’s Nina Gonzalez, 18, a recent graduate of Stafford High School who is headed to Seton Hill University (Pa.) on a golf scholarship in the fall.

·         Hopewell’s Sydney Hudson, 17, who finished sixth in the 16-18 age division at the 2009 VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship.

·         Lauren Krusziewski, 14, of Chesapeake, an eighth-place finisher at the 2009 Virginia Girls’ Open Golf Championship.

·         Hannah Pierce, 17, of King George. Pierce, a fourth-place finisher at the 2009 Virginia High School League Girls’ Open Golf Championship and the owner of two Battlefield District individual titles, will attend James Madison University on a golf scholarship in the fall.

·         Kayleigh Reed, 16, of Virginia Beach, the 14-15 age group winner at last year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship.

·         Paige Reese, 18, of South Hill, the overall champion at last year’s VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship, and a second-place finisher at the 2009 Virginia High School League Girls’ Open Golf Championship. Reese is headed to Radford University in the fall on a golf scholarship.

·         Amanda Steinhagen, 18, of Oak Hill. In addition to her victory at the VSGA Women's Am, she is the only girl ever to win the Virginia Girls’ Open Golf Championship on two occasions. Steinhagen capped her triumph in the fall of ’09 by draining a 50-foot putt on the final hole that concluded her high school career. The northern Virginian won her first state individual high school title as a sophomore. Steinhagen will attend Longwood University in the fall on a golf scholarship.

 

SCHOLARLY PURSUIT: Many of the competitors in the VSGA Junior Girls’ field are not only achieving on the golf course, but shining in the classroom as well.

 

Amanda Steinhagen of Oak Hill (pictured right) earned a VSGA scholarship in the spring and garnered the program’s four-year $5,000 Spencer-Wilkinson Award, honoring as the top female applicant. South Hill’s Paige Reese took home the one-time $1,000 Spencer-Wilkinson Merit Award.

 

Viviana Perez of Petersburg, who is also in the VSGA Junior Girls’ field, also received a scholarship, and will be attending the University of Richmond in the fall.

 

Since being launched in 1985 with three awards for $4,000, the VSGA Scholarship Program has now distributed more than $1.5 million ($1,583,600) in its 26 years. With this year’s 58 scholarships, the total number of recipients has reached 704 worthy students.

 

FOR THE WINNER: The VSGA Junior Girls’ champion will be awarded a prize and will have her name engraved on the Ann Lewis Trophy.  In addition, a prize will be awarded to the overall runner-up, as well as to the winner and runner-up in each age division, the putting contest winner and the longest drive winner in each age division. Flight winner prizes will also be awarded.

 

The top three finishers will receive one exemption into an American Junior Golf Association event.

 

HISTORY OF THE VSGA JUNIOR GIRLS’ CHAMPIONSHIP: The VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship was established in 1970 and this year will be the 40th playing.  Alexandria’s Pamela Clark won the inaugural championship at Waynesboro Country Club. She repeated as the championship’s titleholder one year later at Belle Haven Country Club in Alexandria. 

 

The championship has also helped to launch the career of 1983 and 1984 winner Donna Andrews of Lynchburg, who went on to gain success on the LPGA Tour and has represented the U.S. in Solheim Cup competition. Andrews captured the VSGA Women’s Amateur Championship for five straight years (1985-89). Past champions also include wins by Charlottesville’s Kandi Kessler (Comer), who won in 1978 and 1980 and went on to participate in the Curtis Cup Match.  At 14, she became the youngest player to claim the VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship. 

 

Jenny Suh of Fairfax won back-to-back titles in 2000 and 2001, went on to play collegiate golf at the University of Alabama and competed on the ’06 USA Curtis Cup team, becoming the first player to garner the honor since Kandi Kessler in 1986. Suh now plays on the Duramed Futures Tour.

 

Floyd’s Susan Slaughter won the championship for three straight years (1985-87) and the title has been won by eventual Women’s Am winners Clark, Elizabeth Waynick (Roanoke), Kessler, Andrews, Salem’s Lee Shirley and two-time (2001 and 2002) Women’s Am champion Mandy Beamer of Burkeville.

 

More recently, Floyd’s Jessica Hollandsworth captured the event three times in four years, triumphing in 2005 and again in ’07 and ’08. In her ’07 victory at Independence Golf Club in Midlothian, she set the event’s single-round scoring mark with a first day 6-under 66. Hollandsworth closed with a bogey-free round of 4-under 68 to conclude play at 10-under 134. The only player to ever shoot two rounds in the 60s in a championship that dates back to 1970, her unprecedented 134 aggregate wiped out the event’s 36-hole scoring record of 3-under 141, set in ’06 by Blacksburg’s Courtney Ellenbogen at Roanoke Country Club. Her 10 under total is also a to-par championship record. Hollandsworth is now a rising junior at the University of Maryland where she is a member of the golf team.

 

MULTIPLE WINNERS: Nine golfers have won the title more than once, with Salem’s Lee Shirley and Floyd’s Susan Slaughter having won the championship a record three times. There have also been seven two-time winners:

 

·          Pamela Clark – 1970 and 1971

·          Elizabeth Waynick – 1976 and 1977

·          Kandi Kessler – 1978 and 1980

·          Donna Andrews – 1983 and 1984

·          Susan Slaughter – 1985, 1986 and 1987

·          Lee Shirley – 1990, 1991 and 1992

·          Anne Cardea – 1993 and 1994

·          Kansas Gooden – 1997 and 1999

·          Jenny Suh – 2000 and 2001

·          Jessica Hollandsworth – 2005, 2007 and 2008

GENERAL MANAGER at INDIAN CREEK YACHT & Country Club: Steve Ghiselin

 

PGA PROFESSIONAL at INDIAN CREEK YACHT & Country Club: Mike Mayer, PGA

 

SUPERINTENDENT at INDIAN CREEK YACHT & Country Club: Pete Stephens

 

ABOUT THE VSGA: The VSGA has grown from four founding clubs since its inception to more than 300-plus today. In addition, the VSGA and VIP Card participants total over 80,000 individuals.  The VSGA promotes and preserves the best interests of the game as embodied in its honorable traditions through its championships, handicap program, course rating system, rules education, communications, VIP card and scholarship program of the Virginia Golf Foundation, as well as the VSGA Foundation and Independence Golf Club, which is open to all golfers.

 

DIRECTIONS: Take I-95 to Route 17 through Tappahannock. Take Route 3 to Kilmarnock. Turn left on Route 200 and proceed for approximately one-half mile a make a right on Route 608 (Bluff Point Road). Proceed approximately four miles, turn right onto Pocahontas Drive and left onto Club Drive.

 

KILMARNOCK –– Groupings and starting times for the first round of the 41st VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship at Indian Creek Yacht & Country Club on Tuesday, July 13.

 

Tuesday (July 13), Hole No. 1

 

8 a.m. – Elizabeth Bose (Norfolk); Shannon Brooks (Vienna); Linda Kil (Clifton)

8:09 a.m. – Kristin Hearp (Salem); Katrina Warren (Yorktown)

8:18 a.m. – Jamie Miller (Winchester); Jaeyoung Jun (Centreville)

8:27 a.m. – Ju-Hee Bae (Fairfax); Lyberty Anderson (Chesterfield); Lyndsey Hunnell (Troutville)

8:36 a.m. – Lauren Kruszewski (Chesapeake); Abby Portyrata (Midlothian); Lila Taylor (McLean)

8:45 a.m. – Emily Nolan (Williamsburg); Katie Raymond (Rice); Tensley Clowser (Lively)

8:54 a.m. – Olivia Kil (Clifton); Andrea Walker (Warsaw); Whitney Pace (Keswick)

9:03 a.m. – Casey Gaffney (Chesterfield); Amellia Boyer (Suffolk); Ally Crowers (Mclean)

9:12 a.m. – Amanda Steinhagen (Oak Hill); Shabril Brewer (Herndon); Hannah Pierce (King George)

9:21 a.m. – Lauren Coughlin (Chesapeake); Paige Reese (South Hill); Kayleigh Reed (Virginia Beach)

9:30 a.m. – Shelby Shote (Potomac Falls); Stephanie Eybers (Haymarket); Kelly Sumner (Callao)

9:39 a.m. – Katherine Connell (Midlothian); Michaela Conway (Chester); Kelly Hill (Burke)

9:48 a.m. – Sydney Hudson (Hopewell); Amanda Hollingsworth (Floyd); Caryn Cobb (Norfolk)

9:57 a.m. – Brook Aldridge (Chesapeake); Viviana Perez (Petersburg); Vy Do (Chantilly)

10:06 a.m. – Jessica Merrill (Reston); Hasamone April Nimjareansuk (Alexandria); Rachael Wright (Roanoke)

10:15 a.m. – Mary Barbero (Fairfax Station); Nina Gonzalez (Fredericksburg); Elizabeth Cheng (Virginia Beach)

10:24 a.m. – Marria Cho (Centreville); Kaitlin R Fallen (South Boston); Stephanie Norman (Virginia Beach)

10:33 a.m. – Victoria V. Tip-Aucha (Manassas Park); Hannah Stout (Irvington); Kasey Do (Chantilly)