On Saturday-Sunday, February 14-15, the 2015 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour plays the Rocket Tour PLAYERS at the University of Georgia Golf Course. The golf course is home to the University of Georgia Bulldogs women’s golf team. The course also hosts the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic which is the oldest women’s collegiate tournament in the southern United States and boasts one of the toughest fields that the women will see all year. In 2013, the course was the host of the Women’s NCAA Division I National Championship. In addition to being an distinguish course in collegiate golf, the course also hosted the PGA Tour Web.com Stadion Classic Golf Tournament from 2010 to 2013. With its rich tournament history, the University of Georgia GC is an esteemed course for the first championship event of the 2015 season. The event features a field 34 players from the PKB Girls’ Golf Tour, the nation’s largest “girls’ only” junior tour with over 425 members in 2014 and over 350 girls playing in or committed to collegiate golf.
The Bell Series field features 22 golfers, highlighted seven of the top-60 players on the PKBGT Performance Index, including: Lauren Lightfritz (Suwanee, GA 2016) ranked 20th, Jensen Castle (West Columbia, SC 2019) ranked 24th, Alyssa Montgomery (Knoxville, TN 2019) ranked 46th, Jacinta Pikunas (Youngstown, OH 2017) ranked 49th, Carolyn Markley (Maineville, OH 2015) ranked 53rd, Megan Sabol (Martinez, GA 2016) ranked 54th, and Kate Harper (Isle of Palms, SC 2016) ranked 59th.
The Futures Series field features 12 golfers, highlighted by four of the standout players on the 2014 PKBGT Order of Merit lists, including: Madison Cross (Hickory, NC 2016), Anna Freeman (Aiken, SC 2017), Peyton Gillespie (Greenville, SC 2019), and Sophie Holland (Cornelius, NC 2020).
The Rocket Tour PLAYERS at the University of Georgia GC brings together players from players from Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, North Carolina, New York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Tennessee. It should be a great event! Who will be golden?
The Rocket Tour PLAYERS Championship is sponsored by Rocket Tour Golf, makers of various stylish lines of golf head covers. Rocket Tour Golf doesn’t just love the game of golf, they have an obsessive passion for it! They believe your golf bag is an extension of your personality; it makes a statement before you even step to the tee box. Players will find a little inspiration from every decade in the hundreds of head cover designs, fitting everything from your driver and fairway woods to your putter. Learn more about Rocket Tour Golf at rockettour.com.
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 375 members in 2013 and 262 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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