Pacific Women’s Golf Association H PWGA Tournament Season Tees Off in May
elen Lengfeld founded the Pacific Women’s Golf Assoca- tion to promote the best inter- est of amateur golf in Northern
California. Today, the PWGA serves more than 200 clubs and nearly 10,000 members. The PWGA rates all women’s tees at public courses throughout the region and provides handicap service, including free handicaps for girls under 18. The PWGA will again host
seven major tournaments in 2015, all rotating between the group’s seven re- gions—Bay Area, Fresno, Monterey/ South Bay, North Central, Redwood, Sacramento and Stockton. Events on the schedule are: • Senior/Super Senior (May 5-6 at
Lone Tree GC and Roddy Ranch) • Spring Partners (June 9-10 at
Chardonnay GC and Eagle Vines) • California Women’s Championship
( July 13-15 at Ojai Valley GC) • Mixed Couples/Summer Partners
( July 20-21 at Lake Ridge and Wolf Run) • PWGA Championship (Aug. 4-5 at The Ridge) • Team Play Championship (Sept. 1-2
at Bailey Creek) • Helen Lengfeld Championship (Oct.
6-7 at Laguna Seca and Del Monte) In 2014, Tina Barker of Paradise
Valley captured the PWGA Cham- pionship at Swenson Park GC and Sara Banke of Poplar Creek won the California Women’s Championship at Ojai Valley GC.
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additional opportunities to tee it up during its Area Playdays, which are also held at venues within the group’s seven Northern California regions. Playdays, which are one of the PWGA’s most popular events, consist of both gross and net play. For high school girls, the PWGA
will again offer its Helen Lengfeld Memorial Tournament in September. The PWGA also will co-host the NorCal Cup Match in October at Carmel Valley Ranch, which features 12 amateurs from the Women’s Golf Association of Northern California and PWGA taking on Northern California Women Professionals. The professionals came out on top in 2014, earning a narrow 13-11 victory at Bayonet and Black Horse GC. The Association also co-hosts the Women’s Four-Ball, which will be held at Poppy Hills GC Nov. 18-19. A busy and exciting year for the
PWGA has already gotten off to a successful start. Things kicked off in February with the PWGA’s annual series of Area Workshops, which provide an opportunity for members of the Ex- ecutive Board to meet with club of- ficers and members in a social setting. Along with networking, the meetings serve to update the PWGA’s member clubs on upcoming events, including major tournaments such as the Cali- fornia Women’s State Championship and Area Playdays.
As part of the workshops, there
were also seminars on Handicapping and Rules, budgetary reviews, the recognition of each region’s Most Improved Golfers and guest speakers. Among those taking the podium this year were Quail Lodge Resort Director of Golf Wendy Stuart, PGA/LPGA instructors Dede Moriarty, Shelley McGill-O’Keefe, Patti Liscio, Chelsea Robinson and Jennelle Wroge, and California Alliance for Golf board member Emmy Moore Minister. “The workshops really kick of the
new year for us,” said PWGA execu- tive director Caroline O’Brien. During the February workshops,
the PWGA went “Red” for the American Heart Association. Found- ed in 2003, the AHA’s Go Red Cam- paign raises awareness of women’s heart disease and stroke, which claim the lives of nearly 500,000 women in the U.S. each year. The AHA’s Saving Strokes
program offers stroke survivors an opportunity to participate in golf not only for the love of the game, but also for physical rehabilitation. Please visit
savingstrokes.com for more info.
The PWGA has been supporting women amateur golfers playing public and semi-private courses in Northern California since 1947. Membership is available via a public or semi-private facility hosting a PWGA club, or through a PWGA Associate Club or eClub. Learn more about the PWGA by visiting
GolfPWGA.org.
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