THE OMNI HOMESTEAD RESORT & SPA THE CASCADES COURSE
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THE OMNI HOMESTEAD RESORT & SPA THE CASCADES COURSE
David Partridge
I n 2023— at the 100th anniversary of The Cascades Course of the Omni Homestead Resort & Spa in Hot Springs— the USGA announced that The Cascades Course had been selected to host two upcoming national championships. These events include the 2025 USGA Senior Women’ s Amateur, to be held September 13-18, as well as the 2029 U. S. Senior Amateur. These tournaments mark the ninth and 10th national championships contested on the historic Cascades Course.
With an enduring relationship with the USGA that dates back nearly a century, these events mark the second time The Cascades has been the venue for both senior national championships. The Cascades has hosted seven different USGA Championships— second only to Bandon Dunes Golf Resort, which has hosted eight. Apart from its devoted support of the United States Golf Association, the Omni Homestead Resort & Spa has been a passionate patron of the VSGA, having hosted literally hundreds of state championships and other events over many decades.
The 4th hole at The Cascades, one of the most famous par 3s in the Commonwealth, was the scene of one of the most dramatic state championship finishes in history. In 1989 Donna Andrews, a member of the Virginia Golf Hall of Fame, was pursuing her fifth consecutive Women’ s Amateur title and she was pitched in a fierce battle against Donna Martz( now Abernathy) of Broadway. The good friends( they went to dinner together the night before the finals; Andrews picked up the check) both played superbly well in the back-and-forth contest. Neither player was ever more than 2-up, and the match went to the 22nd
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