News from the PKB Girls’ Golf Tour
The beach umbrellas are packed away for the season, summer break is over and school is back in session! With the start of another school year comes the beginning of the 2018 College Golf fall season! You can find PKBGT alumni spread all throughout the country competing for their school at all levels of college competition. Though the season begins at different times for each team, this [...]
The 2018 Tour Championship not only marks the conclusion of the 2018 PKBGT National schedule, but also the conclusion of the Bell and Futures National Order of Merit races. In the Bell National Order of Merit, Amanda Sambach has locked up the Order after winning the 2017 PKBGT Invitational, the 2018 PKBGT Open Championship and the 2018 PKBGT Precision Girls Championship. Without any of her competitors in [...]
Greensboro, NC (July 13, 2018) — The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour (PKBGT) and Insurance Office of America will conduct a junior qualification event for the LPGA Symetra Tour’s IOA Golf Classic, which is held September 28-30, 2018. The winner of the qualifier will be awarded a sponsor’s exemption into the professional event. Insurance Office of America, the title sponsor of three LPGA Symetra Tour events [...]
It's one of the biggest weeks in women's golf- where 144 of the world's best female golfers will tee it up in the 73rd US Women's Open played at Shoal Creek Country Club in Birmingham, Alabama. And, for the first time in tour history, FIVE PKBGT alumni will be among those in the field. Alumni include Katelyn Dambaugh ('13), Jillian Hollis ('15), Emilia Migliaccio ('17), Jennifer Chang [...]
Twenty-seven. That’s the number of PKBGT titles earned by 5 different competitors playing in the Symetra Tour’s Symetra Classic at River Run GC in Davidson, NC. This weekend, 4 PKBGT Alumni and 1 current PKBGT member will tee it up on the Road to LPGA, the developmental pathway of the LPGA Tour. Alumni in the field include Katherine Perry (’10), Lori Beth Adams (’10), Laura Wearn (’09) and Kayla [...]
When Kayla Smith walked down the 18th fairway of the PKBGT Women’s Health Classic Junior Qualifier, she thought she had to make birdie to secure her spot in this week’s Symetra Tour Self Regional HealthCare Women’s Golf Classic, but her par on the par 5- 18th was good enough. This week, she will walk down the same fairway alongside the rising stars of the LPGA Tour. For [...]
Insurance Office of America links generations of women’s golf through new partnership with the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour Greensboro, NC (February 1, 2018) — The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour (PKBGT) has announced a partnership with Insurance Office of America to introduce a new developmental series for junior girl golfers in Central Florida. Insurance Office of America, which will be the title sponsor for [...]
They say age is just a number- and 12-year old Bailey Shoemaker proved that at the PKBGT Invitational this past weekend. Shoemaker, a 7th grader from West Edmeston, NY, made headlines with a top 10 finish against a field composed of elite, high school players, many of which have committed to play high level division I college golf. Her steady play gave her a 3 day total of [...]
The Peggy Kirk Bell Girls' Golf Tour is excited to announce our new partnership with Book of Yardage, a detailed yardage book provider that will create custom, informative yardage books for PKBGT members to use in all PKBGT National Events. Parallel to Book of Yardage's slogan "Offering key intel you can't get with a rangefinder," each book will outline specific details of each course (including slope and [...]
As the 2018 season begins this weekend with the PKBGT Invitational, the 2017 season came to a close at the Inspire. Dream. Achieve. Banquet Friday night. It was a special night of mentorship and celebration, with over 100 guests in attendance featuring multiple 2017 Order of Merit Winners and 4 PKBGT Alumni on Tour. In addition, our regional series partner, Storie Apparel, were there to personally recognize [...]
