Woodburn, OR – The Oregon Golf Association (OGA) today announced the Golfer of the Year for the 2014 championship season – Gigi Stoll of Beaverton, Ore. Stoll was nominated because of the great season she had nationally, regionally and locally emphasizing the OGA’s commitment to a player’s total body of work for the season.

Stoll, a senior at Beaverton High School, had an outstanding year locally, winning both theOregon Women’s Amateur Championship and Oregon Junior Amateur Championship and finishing second at the Oregon Women’s Stroke Play in a playoff. In April, she won the Women’s Tournament of Champions to start the championship season. She also made it to the Round of 16 at the U.S. Girls Junior Amateur Championship, however, her greatest accomplishment of the year may have come in her own backyard when she not only qualified for the LPGA Portland Classic, but made the cut and finished T52 after rounds of 71-74-71-71 in her professional event debut.

Stoll was recently named the PNGA Women’s Player of the Year; she has committed to play golf at the University of Arizona and will begin her collegiate careerafter graduating next June. 

The OGA Golfer of the Year title is a nomination by the OGA Tournament Committee, which governs all of its championships and competitions. Players from different divisions are considered for this award, based mostly on their finish within their division’s OGA Performance Points.

The OGA recognizes many of its competitors through performance points and wouldlike to congratulate this year’s OGA Performance Points Leaders: Men’s Division Hans Reimers, Women’s Division Gigi Stoll, Senior Men’s Division Pat O’Donnell, Senior Women’s Division Leilani Norman and Men’s Master 40 Division Charlie Rice.

The OregonGolf Association (OGA) is a 501(c)(6) non-profit membership association. Founded in 1924, the OGA was originally established with the sole purpose of conducting the Oregon Amateur Championship. Since its founding, the OGA works tirelessly to promote, foster and grow the game of golf providing a multitude of benefits and services to approximately 42,000 individual men, women, senior and junior members at more than 270 member golf clubs and 190golf courses throughout Oregon and SW Washington.

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