{"id":13406,"date":"2021-04-27T16:47:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-27T16:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/?p=13406"},"modified":"2021-04-29T13:16:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-29T13:16:12","slug":"holcomb_marilynnsmithscholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pkbgt.org\/news\/holcomb_marilynnsmithscholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"PKBGT Tour Member Awarded National LPGA Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Daytona Beach, FL-<\/strong><em> A current PKBGT member was awarded National LPGA Foundation Scholarship.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Grace Holcomb<\/strong> (Wilmington, NC 2021) announced on Monday as one of four recipients of the Marilynn Smith Scholarship, named in honor of one of the<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/DttYR-kW0EwHRW-k7uOz8MuYMvtoB7pZc9PFeRhv3ZpKonqW6GDPn_XSdvS0X8ap0xeIimKn4AmVktvWvhnx2Xn62S9J50oExS2xBtrob_g5vnRerkUGGDQAS6UEj5lWpO-exIr-uwOv4GqRxO7jOodUxhOwL4Vi72P7NFLYm1Aufuv82CUhNc0_G5pw4ZKVNDiERFOlowi18X76RwJIZHgSTUxBWMpn6meaHbJAb4BMDhRlldRvGsCEYvro42TNrOM0AwY0ijg_2dy-gCFvqPY5rHCuYnMxby9QM96tstz7tRpNg2oRTuY183qqllixng4rhiUO0HdoGdHfwZTwYUtQKy6zT60M_9Y-IJ11xfvupJ-cLNgsLMNZATRNKt2ggqk3y20pCxx4hzhko8OWNiqg-gyq5XBHay-YAddwRM9f8pOOsBOoE_AM2VSTvwgizoRSut73fJ7PvIfoyzBRMHF8AtQ1aME75m2PMPAxd5YlINGwg76BKUZnL-2gi6hLM4gBSMn04dVN0EHp1WU3lzviBrx28H_mAyy8YRpRN311g6fs50O_wFkBg-EFFbwqJl-poPlJikzcbrU2_9xz8JU4GwoL4HoomV8qPVZZqm8z3IFKVyZOQpr-rQjoYHHKcWJ2v8DjodLfYGi61N81fYzvLw_Bhl5nk8Xt2dxhS_UNriHHGFW17DHmgiOiHhviF2HcrN_CaBYPhP4CSYaapPdE=w2692-h1796-no?authuser=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"266\" height=\"178\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LPGA\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the LPGA Foundation and its scholarships, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lpga.com\/news\/2021\/lpga-foundation-announces-2021-scholarship-recipients\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" data-fontsize=\"18\" data-lineheight=\"27px\">About the PKBGT<\/h2>\n<p>Founded in 2007 by Girls Golf of America, a non-profit 501(c)(3) charitable organization, a local girls\u2019 golf tour in the Triad region of North Carolina.\u00a0 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\u2019s 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\u2019s only tour in the country.\u00a0 Learn more about the PKBGT at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><i>For complete coverage of the Peggy Kirk Bell Girls\u2019 Golf Tour, follow the PKBGT on social media @PKBGirlsTour (Twitter), facebook.com\/girlsgolftour (Facebook), @pkbgirlstour (Instagram), or visit our website at\u00a0<\/i><i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pkbgt.org\/\">www.pkbgt.org<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daytona Beach, FL- A current PKBGT member was awarded National LPGA Foundation Scholarship. &nbsp; 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\u2019s 13 Founders, is awarded to high school seniors who plan to play golf at an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":13410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tour_news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>PKBGT Tour Member Awarded National LPGA Scholarship - PKB Girls&#039; 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