SEQUIM — SunLand Golf & Country Club is the epicenter of women’s amateur golf today through Thursday.
The 23rd Washington State Women’s Amateur Championship will be held concurrently with the 7th Washington State Women’s Mid-Amateur, 17th Washington State Senior Women’s Amateur and 3rd Washington State Super Senior Women’s Amateur championships
All four championships will be conducted by the Washington State Golf Association.
The Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur championships will be contested over 54 holes of stroke play, while the Senior and Super Senior championships consist of 36 holes of stroke play.
Tee times begin today at
7:30 a.m.
The Washington State Women’s Amateur is the state’s premier amateur championship for women, and traditionally draws the region’s best players.
Sequim High School junior and three-time All-Peninsula MVP Alex McMenamin will tee off today at at 8:50 a.m.
This year’s field also includes Marianne Li of Bellevue, a freshman at the University of California.
Li was the top-ranked junior golfer in Washington while in high school, qualifying for five USGA national championships and winning the 2014 Pacific Northwest Junior PGA Championship.
Also in the hunt is Bree Wanderscheid of Goldendale, a sophomore at Washington State. University; and Federal Way’s Kendall Gray, who won the 2013 Pacific Northwest Junior Girls’ Amateur and now is a sophomore at the University of Idaho.
The field of the Women’s Mid-Amateur championship includes two-time champion Leslie Folsom (2012, 2013) of Tukwila, 2014 champion Shawn Farmer of Renton, 2014 WSGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year Denise Kieffer of University Place, , and 2013 Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame inductee Alison Murdoch of Victoria,
Ginny Burkey of Eugene, Ore. will be attempting to defend her title in the women’s Senior Amateur, having won last year when the championship was held at the Cedars at Dungeness.
Past champions of the Washington State Women’s Amateur include Paige Mackenzie (2002), a member of the University of Washington Athletic Hall of Fame who finished her senior year ranked the No. 1 golfer in the nation by Golfweek, and is a studio analyst on Golf Channel and LPGA Tour player; Kelli Kamimura (2001) now is the head coach of the women’s golf team at Washington State University; and Silverdale’s Erynne Lee (2011), who was selected the WSGA Women’s Player of the Year in three consecutive years, made it to the quarterfinals or better of the U.S. Women’s Amateur three times, and is now a rising star on the UCLA women’s golf team.
For a complete list of tee times, pairings, daily updates, and to follow along with live scoring for each championship, visit thewsga.org.
