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DAN PHILLIPS is back at MCQ’s Dome (L) teaching golf. (R) The Par 3, 16th the Flower Hole at SentryWorld,in Stevens point Wisconsin, that has been selected home of the 2019 USGA Jr. Girls Championship. For more information visit USGA.org.
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It only took two years, and the USGA will return to the State of Wisconsin this time for the playing of the 71st Junior Girls Open. It’s the second USGA Championship to visit SentryWorld. The first being the 1986 USGA Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, won by Cindy Schreyer, and was the year that championship received the most entry’s at 1,085, in the championships history from 1977-2014.
The USGA Junior Girls championship will be held from July 22-27 and is open to all females who will not turn 19 years of age before the final day of competition. The handicap maximum is set at 9.4 to be eligible to compete.
Some of the greatest names in women’s golf are past champions. Three time winner Hollis Stacy heads the list, and is followed by Mickey Wright, Nancy Lopez, Amy Alcott, Joanne Carner, Pat Hurst, I.K. Kim, Inbee Park, Lexi Thompson.
As of 2017, the winner of the USGA junior Girls Championship wins an exemption into the following years U.S. Women’s Open.
The new logo at Sentry World.
“We look forward to bringing the U.S. Junior Girls Championship to SentryWorld and the state of Wisconsin for the first time in 2019,” said Stuart Francis, USGA Championship Committee Chairman. “The worlds best female players junior golfers are consistently identified in this championship, and we are confident that SentryWorld is a grand stage worthy of providing the ultimate test for these talented golfers.”
SentryWorld is a Par 72, 7,237 yard golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones in 1982, and is part of a sports complex that includes indoor tennis, banquet space and restaurants.
The golf course was renovated in 2013 by Jones architectural team Bruce Charlton and Jay Blasi.
” The USGA’s championships are undoubtedly among the most prestigious golf events in the world,” says Mike James, general manager of SentryWorld and vice president of Sentry Services. “We look forward to hosting athletes from all over the globe on our redesigned golf course, and SentryWorld will truly provide a world-class environment for all players, officials and fans.”
The 2018 USGA Junior Girls Championship will be contested from July 16-21 at the Poppy Hills Golf Course in Pebble Beach, California. Poppy Hills is a public course also designed by Jones. The Junior Girls Championship will be the 15th USGA Championship that will be contested in the State of Wisconsin.