Virginia Golfer Jul / Aug 2020 | Page 9

Around The Commonwealth The Women’s Amateur had already undergone a significant change in the offseason. Stroke-play qualifying has been reduced to one day, and the top 16 players after that qualifying round will advance to the championship flight. The remaining players will be seeded and placed in consolation flights. The goal was to ensure everyone who entered the event would get to experience match play. Rory Weinfurther, who will begin her college golf career at the University of Richmond later this summer, returns to defend the title she won last year at Princess Anne Country Club. Weinfurther defeated Mallory Hetzel 1 up in last year’s final. Since 2010, four women have won back-to-back Women’s Amateur titles: Amanda Steinhagen (2010-11), Lauren Coughlin (2012-13), Abby Portyrata (2015-16) and Lauren Greenlief (2017-18). Weinfurther figures to face tough competition from several youngsters, including Melanie Walker, Danielle Suh and Julie Shin. Roanoke Country Club is one of the four founding members of the VSGA and will be hosting the Women’s Amateur for the first time since 1948. The Women’s Am is visiting the area for Rory Weinfurther the first time since Lyberty Anderson’s championship win over Lauren Coughlin in 2014 at Hidden Valley Country Club in Salem. REVISED 2020 VSGA CHAMPIONSHIP SCHEDULE July 7-8: 38th VSGA Senior Four-Ball Championship (Golden Horseshoe Gold, Williamsburg) Aug. 2-7: 107th VSGA Amateur Championship (River Bend Club, Great Falls) Sept. 1-3: 74th VSGA Women’s State Team Matches (Wintergreen Devils Knob, Nellysford) July 14-16: 95th VSGA Women’s Amateur Championship (Roanoke CC, Roanoke) Aug. 11-15: 73rd VSGA Senior Amateur Championship (Westwood CC, Vienna) Sept. 2-3: 35th VSGA Super Senior Stroke Play Championship (Danville GC, Danville) CHRIS LANG July 16-18: Delta Dental State Open of Virginia (Ballyhack GC, Roanoke) July 20-21: 51st VSGA Junior Girls’ Championship (Old Trail GC, Crozet) July 27-31: 63rd VSGA Sr. Women’s and 2nd VSGA Super Sr. Women’s Amateurs (The Omni Homestead Resort Old Course, Hot Springs) July 28-30: 68th VSGA Junior Stroke Play Championship (James River CC, Newport News) Aug. 11-13: VSGA Women’s Stroke Play Championships (Kingsmill Resort River Course, Williamsburg) Aug. 17-18: 14th VSGA Youth Championship (Kingsmill Resort Plantation Course, Williamsburg) Aug. 17-18: 8th VSGA Super Senior Four-Ball Championship (Mount Vernon CC, Alexandria) Aug. 25-26: 2nd VSGA Multi-Format Team Championship (The Dominion Club, Glen Allen) Sept. 21-22: 1st VSGA Net Amateur Championship (Fawn Lake CC, Spotsylvania) Sept. 21-22: 15th Senior Open of Virginia (Independence GC, Midlothian) Sept. 25-27: 44th VSGA Mid-Amateur Championship (Bayville GC, Virginia Beach) Oct. 5-7: VSGA Mid-Senior and Super Senior Amateurs (Salisbury CC, Midlothian) Oct. 16-17: 55th VSGA Four-Ball Championship (Poplar Grove GC, Amherst) vsga.org J ULY/A UGUST 2020 | V IRGINIA G OLFER 7