The 47th Maryland State Senior Women’s Amateur Championship was held August 24th & 25th at Hobbit’s Glen Golf Club in Columbia, Maryland. The 2015 Senior Amateur Champion is Mimi Hoffman from Kenwood Golf & Country Club.
The scores were close at the end of the first day with Mimi Hoffman shooting a 74, followed closely with 75’s from Lisa Schlesinger from Norbeck Country Club and Kimbra Benson from Breton Bay Golf & Country Club.
Day two proved to be a closely contested competition between Mimi Hoffman and Lisa Schlesinger. Lisa got off to a slow start with a double bogey on the par 5 second hole, but charged back with two birdies, followed by a bogey, for a score of 74. Mimi played solid, with 3 bogey’s and the rest pars, for a round of 75. At the end of day two, both players had a total of 149, taking it to a sudden death play-off. Mimi won on the first play-off hole with a par and Lisa was the Championship Runner-Up.
Other winners are listed by age division:
50-54:
Winner-Kimbra Benson 153
Runner-Up-Lisa Kaufman 156
1st Net-April Giles 124
55-59:
Winner-Beth Ennis 160
Runner-Up-Ilene Garten 169 (match of cards against Becky Rutherford)
1st Net-Ho Lim Jun 143
2nd Net-Soo Ja Chu 147
3rd Net-Su Jin Shin 148
60-64:
Winner-Bonnie Fry 158
Runner-Up-Carol Davies-Lillie 163
1st Net-Deb Watkins 149
2nd Net-Anita Venner 153
3rd Net-Cynthia Wood 154
65-69:
Winner-Karen Wood 182
Runner-Up-Sue Sosnowski 188
1st Net-Donna Dalfonzo-Wiggs 152
2nd Net-Diane Crowley 155
3rd Net-Kathy Byrnes 157
70 Plus:
Winner-Karen Smith 184
Runner-Up-Joan Winchester 187
1st Net-Byoung Cho Chi 173
There were many newcomers, playing in their first Maryland State tournament and we hope to see you again. The Senior Amateur will be held at Sparrows Point Country Club in Baltimore, Maryland the second week of September, 2016. The date has not been set at this time, so please check our website in 2016 so you can save the date.
-Reported by Bonnie Lennox
