... and Still Growing
The VSGA Junior Girls’ championship celebrates
its golden anniversary in July, and the event has
plenty of growth potential
by ARTHUR UTLEY
D
uring her early teenage years growing up in Northern Virginia, golf
was plentiful for future Virginia Golf Hall of Fame inductee Robbye
King. King, who played out of Army Navy Country Club, was encour-
aged and nurtured while she participated in the Women’s District of Colum-
bia Golf Association junior girls’ program. Clubs in the District, Maryland
suburbs and northern Virginia were members of the association.
The women ran tournaments for the juniors and even drove King to U.S.
Junior Girls’ Championships in Greenwich, Conn., and Tulsa, Okla., when
she was 14 and 15 years old.