On Saturday-Sunday, June 11 & 12, the 2016 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour played the Greater Richmond Classic at Magnolia Green Golf Club. Magnolia Green, was ranked #8 on Golf Digest’s Top 10 2015 Best New Courses, is a Nicklaus Design in association with Tom Clark and a beautiful course for this two-day tournament. The event features a field 29 players from 7 states in the Prep and Futures Series.
Winning the Prep Series and making her PKBGT debut was Priscilla Schmid (Bradenton, FL 2017) with rounds of 76-75-151. In second place was Kendall Turner (Chesapeake, VA 2019) with rounds of 77-79-156. In third place was Jessica Rathbone (Montpelier, VA 2020) with 88-79-167. In fourth place was Haley Quickel (Middletown, DE 2020) with rounds of 83-85-168. In fifth place Erica Whitehouse (Mechanicsville, VA 2017) with rounds of 84-91-175.
Winning the Futures Series was Rory Weinfurther (Midlothian, VA 2017) with rounds of 72-75-147. In second place was Paris Fieldings (Suffolk, VA 2023) with rounds of 82-76-158. In third place was Sophie Simon (Potomac, MD 2020) with rounds of 82-77-159. In fourth place was Elizabeth Coffren (Owings, MD 2020) with rounds of 84-78-162. In fifth place was Alyssa Cong (Germantown, MD 2020) with rounds of 86-79-165.
Congratulations to our PKBGT top-five finishers!
The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour is an initiative of the Triad Youth Golf Foundation, a 501(c)3 non-profit foundation aimed at increasing learning and playing opportunities for youth golfers. Based out of Greensboro, North Carolina, the PKBGT offers affordable, high-quality nationally ranked girls’ golf tournaments designed to prepare junior girls’ golfers for high school and collegiate golf. The PKBGT is the nation’s largest “girls’ only” junior tour with over 450 members in 2015 and 450 girls playing in or committed to collegiate golf. Learn more about the tour at pkbgt.org or by contacting Tour Director Mike Parker at mparker@pkbgt.org or 336-347-8537.
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