35th Oregon Senior Women's Amateur Begins June 20 at Bend Golf Club
BEND, Ore. – The 35th Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur Championship will take place June 20-23, 2018 at Bend Golf Club in Bend, Ore.
The championship will take place concurrently with the 109th Oregon Amateur Championship, which is currently underway with stroke play qualifying.
The Senior Women’s field will partake in 18-holes of stroke play qualifying on Wednesday, June 20. With 17 total players, the No. 16 and No. 17 seeds will play each other on Thursday morning to determine who will play the No. 1 seed. Round of 16 matches will take place Thursday afternoon, with quarterfinal and semifinal matches on Friday, June 22. The 18-hole final will commence on Saturday, June 23.
Defending champion Lara Tennant (Portland, Ore.) will look to continue her impressive play this week against a talented field. Tennant has already won once this year – defending her title at the 2018 Oregon Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship – and just last week, Tennant qualified for the inaugural U.S. Senior Women’s Open, taking place later this summer. In 2017, along with her wins at the Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur and the Women’s Mid-Amateur, she earned co-medalist honors and the No. 1 seed in match play at the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, held at her home course of Waverley Country Club in Portland.
Also in the field is Marcia Fisher (Molalla, Ore.), seven-time Oregon Women’s Amateur champion. Fisher won this event in 2004, and she’s also a two-time Oregon Women’s Stroke Play winner. Leilani Norman (Eugene, Ore.) will be looking to win her third Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur title after winning in 2013 and 2015. Norman also won the Oregon Senior Women’s Stroke Play title in 2016.
Anita Wicks (Roseburg, Ore.) and Ginny Burkey (Eugene, Ore.) will also be contenders for the championship. Wicks, four-time Oregon Senior Women’s Stroke Play champion, will be searching for her second Oregon Senior Women’s Amateur title after winning two years ago at Salishan Golf Links. Burkey finished second at the 2017 Oregon Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship, and won last year’s Pacific Northwest Women’s Senior Team Championship, along with Norman, her playing partner.
