Great Britain & Ireland Vagliano Team Member, Olivia Mehaffey is the winner of the 2015 LGU Order of Merit. The 17‐year‐old, a member of Royal County Down Ladies’ Golf Club, gains a full exemption to next year’s Ricoh Women’s British Open which will be played at the end of July at Woburn Golf Club. In order to be eligible for the exemption Olivia must remain an amateur at least until that championship has been played. Previous Winners ...
Archive for: August, 2015
Louise Suggs, a founder of the LPGA and an honorary member of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews, has passed away at the grand age of 91. Born in 1923, in Atlanta, Georgia, Suggs first took up golf at the age of ten. She embarked on a highly successful amateur career winning the US Amateur in 1947 and the British Ladies’ Amateur in 1948. She was a member of that year’s American Curtis ...
Balmoral Golf Club have teamed up with Sport N.I. to give women an opportunity to take up the wonderful game of golf. Balmoral are keen to attract a new generation of players to the club, particularly those who are retiring from other sports such as camogie, football or hockey. They especially want to attract women who have never played any sport before but want to give golf a go. The response to Balmoral’s advertising of the scheme ...