27th Oregon Women's Stroke Play Begins Tuesday at Rose City GC
PORTLAND, ORE. – The 27th edition of the Oregon Women’s Stroke Play Championship kicks off tomorrow, August 15th and runs through Wednesday, August 16th at Rose City Golf Course in Portland, Ore.
A talented field will represent both the Open and Senior Divisions beginning Tuesday in the 36-hole event. Tee times begin at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning.
Defending champion Hannah Swanson (Forest Grove, Ore.) will look to repeat in 2017. Swanson, a rising senior at Portland State University, recently transferred to PSU after attending Oregon State her first three years.
Playing with Swanson on Tuesday will be two former champions – Gigi Stoll (Tigard, Ore.) and Brie Stone (Veneta, Ore.). Stoll, a rising junior at the University of Arizona, is coming off an impressive showing at the U.S. Women’s Amateur last week, where she advanced to the round of 16. She won this year’s Oregon Women’s Amateur Championship, and won the Women’s Stroke Play title back in 2015.
Stone won this event the last time it was held at Rose City, back in 2012. She also won the championship in 1999 and 2001. She finished second in this spring’s OGA Tournament of Champions, and earned a fourth-place finish at the 2017 Oregon Women’s Mid-Amateur. She’s a six-time champion of that event.
Also in this year’s field is 2017 Oregon Women’s Amateur runner-up Amanda Jacobs (Portland, Ore.); this year’s Oregon Women’s Public Links champion and rising sophomore at the University of Nevada – Reno, Jenny Krause (Eugene, Ore.); 2017 Oregon Women’s Amateur stroke play medalist and Colorado State golfer Ellen Secor (Portland, Ore.), and runner-up at this year’s Oregon Junior Amateur and Oregon Junior Stroke Play Victoria Gailey (Tigard, Ore.).
In the Senior Championship, defending champion Leilani Norman (Eugene, Ore.) will seek a repeat win against a very good field. Past champions Anita Wicks (Roseburg, Ore. – 2013-15) and Loree McKay (Portland, Ore. – 2009) are playing, along with Marcia Fisher (Molalla, Ore.), who just recently medaled at 2017 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur qualifying earlier this month.
Lara Tennant (Portland, Ore.), who has already won two OGA titles in 2017, will look to win a third this week. Tennant won this year’s Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur Championship in June, and then earned the victory at the Oregon Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in July.
Also playing this week are this year’s Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur runner-up Patti O’Mara (West Linn, Ore.), recent qualifier for this year’s U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, Debbie Friede (Washougal, Wash.), and past Oregon Women’s Amateur champion Charisse Spada (Portland, Ore.).
