PKBGT Tour Member Awarded National LPGA Scholarship

Daytona Beach, FL- A current PKBGT member was awarded National LPGA Foundation Scholarship.

Grace Holcomb (Wilmington, NC 2021) announced on Monday as one of four recipients of the Marilynn Smith Scholarship, named in honor of one of the

LPGA’s 13 Founders, is awarded to high school seniors who plan to play golf at an accredited college or university in the United States. Holcomb will receive a $5,000 scholarship.

Grace, a tour regular, won the 2020 Kiawah Resort Girls Classic and will be playing golf at UNC-Greensboro in the fall, majoring in Marketing with a concentration in Social Media.

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About the PKBGT

Founded in 2007 by Girls Golf of America, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, a local girls’ golf tour in the Triad region of North Carolina.  The tour began as a simple concept: create more effective competitive playing opportunities for girls. By utilizing innovative yardage-based divisions instead of the traditional age-based format, the tour focused on developing tournament experience at the player’s pace. The 2020-2021 season will feature over 110 tournaments in 9 states on the East Coast, and with over 1,000 members, the PKBGT is the largest girl’s only tour in the country.  Learn more about the PKBGT at http://www.pkbgt.org/.

For complete coverage of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls’ Golf Tour, follow the PKBGT on social media @PKBGirlsTour (Twitter), facebook.com/girlsgolftour (Facebook), @pkbgirlstour (Instagram), or visit our website at www.pkbgt.org.