The 2020 LPGA season began with two tournaments in Florida in January without two native Georgians who have been LPGA Tour members since the early 2010s. Valdosta’s Dori Carter, who played on the LPGA Tour from 2011-19, left the tour after competing in 14 events last season to become an assistant women’s golf coach at Louisville. Brunswick’s Katie Burnett was an LPGA Tour … [Read more...]
Samuel Del Val Takes Third in Spanish Open; Dori Carter, Shad Tuten Also Make News
Former Georgia Open winner Samuel Del Val enjoyed the best week of his professional career, finishing in third place Sunday in the Spanish Open, a European Tour event. Del Val, the 2010 Georgia Open champion, is a Spanish native who attended college in Georgia and has lived in the state since he graduated from Berry College a few months before his Georgia Open … [Read more...]
Atlanta Athletic Club to Host 2021 Women’s PGA Championship
After an absence of 15 years, the LPGA will return to Georgia in 2021 when the Atlanta Athletic Club will host the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, one of the tour’s majors. The LPGA last played a tournament in the state in 2006, when Eagle’s Landing in Stockbridge ended a 15-year run as the site of an annual LPGA event, sponsored by Atlanta-based Chick-fil-A from … [Read more...]
Past Champion Margaret Shirley Highlights Field for Georgia Women’s Open
Since it was first played in 1995, the Georgia Women’s Open has spotlighted the state’s top female golfers, with many of the prominent women’s competitors in Georgia winning the event during that span. Caroline Blaylock, Diana Ramage, Mariah Stackhouse, Dori Carter and Ashlan Ramsey all made it to the LPGA Tour after winning the tournament, and top amateurs and college … [Read more...]
Former UGA Golfers to Play in Symetra Tournament at Atlanta National
The Symetra Tour returns to Atlanta national in the suburbs of north Fulton County for the fourth year, with the 2019 event scheduled for May 9-11 and featuring some new faces in the field after playing their college careers in Athens. Among the players expected to tee it up on the intriguing Pete and P.B. Dye design are Bailey Tardy and Jillian Hollis, who would be closing … [Read more...]
LPGA preview: Stackhouse Looks to Move Up After Solid Sophomore Season
For the first 55 or so years of the LPGA Tour, Georgia was a vital part of the tour’s history, both as the host of a number of tournaments as well being home to some of the top players in women’s professional golf. A tournament played at Sunset Hills in Carrollton was on the schedule of the first official LPGA Tour season in 1950, and Atlanta native Louise Suggs, one of the … [Read more...]
Tour Roundups: Charles Howell Earns Spot in U.S. Open; 4 Georgia PGA pros in PGA Senior
Updates on Georgia golfers from the four primary tours in the U.S.: PGA TOUR: Howell in U.S. Open; Mitchell on hot streak Augusta’s Charles Howell earned a spot in the upcoming U.S. Open at Shinnecock Hills, tying for ninth in last week’s Byron Nelson Classic to move up from 59th to 56th in the World Golf Rankings. Howell has not played in the U.S. Open since 2012 and … [Read more...]
Dori Carter Regains Exempt Status On Lpga Tour; Mariah Stackhouse Ties For 21st In First Qualifying Effort
The final stage of qualifying for the 2017 LPGA Tour included four Georgians in the field, and the 90-hole event concluded with some decidedly mixed results for the four. Valdosta’s Dori Carter regained fully exempt status for the 2017 season, tying for 14th thanks to a 9-under 63 in the fourth round. Rookie pro Mariah Stackhouse of Riverdale tied for 21st, missing a … [Read more...]
Ashlan Ramsey aims for repeat in Georgia Women’s Open
Club Pro Paolozzi among primary challengers During its 21 years of competition, the Georgia Women’s Open has featured a number of winners in their teens or early 20s who used their victories as springboards to successful stints as college golfers or as part of a path to a future in professional golf. That applies to the tournament’s first winner – Caroline Peek Blaylock in … [Read more...]