NCGA Women’s Golf Volunteers of the Year Hard work pays off, we are certainly proud of and thankful for these amazing ladies. PWGA – Volunteer of the Year Helen Lengfeld Award for Outstanding Service by a PWGA Volunteer Congratulations to Linda Ellis of Sunnyvale WGC, who was nominated by her club and selected by the…
Winning Ways – Celebrating our Local Champions As we wind down this 2020 golf season, we can certainly reflect on the new landscape of golf amid this year of Coronavirus. Golf courses were closed, events were canceled, safety measures changed the way we played – but we still managed to play some tournament golf! Let’s…
Women’s Golf Day 2020 – Round 2 In our first NCGA NewsLinks, we included a perspective from Dianna Stein on how the 4-year-old Women’s Golf Day initiative had to change up their plans this year to adjust for the realities of a global pandemic. (If you missed it, she recommended a number of videos on…
Women’s Golf Day 2020 Women’s Golf Day was founded in 2016 to engage, empower and support participation in the game of golf by women of all ages. The celebration began with 400 locations and has grown to over 900 committed for the year 2020. As the reality of the Covid-19 Pandemic unfolded and our country…
Longer Drives — Yes Please! Ashley Wood, PGA teaches how to hit those long drives off the tee. Incline Village Golf Courses: Swing Posture Golf Tip Maintaining posture and balance throughout the swing is key to hitting that drive longer and straighter. Some golfers have problems with their swing mechanics, a muscle imbalance or a…
Haggin Oaks Women’s Mentor League by Dianna Stein For the casual woman golfer, it can be intimidating to take the step from hitting balls and putting on the practice green to actually teeing off on the first tee. As this pandemic continues to redefine what is the new normal in our daily lives, more women…
LPGA Back on Tour The LPGA Tour is set to return with the Marathon Classic in late July, having shut down tournament operations in mid-February – an even longer break than the PGA Tour. Since then, we’ve seen a number of players on social media show off their skills and practice drills. We also saw…
Celebrating our Champions This summer we saw some impressive victories across our top women’s competitions. Congratulations to the winners! NCGA Women’s Amateur – Faith Low Faith Low, a San Mateo resident and a YOC and JTNC member, shook off a double-bogey, bogey start in the final round to card a final round even-par 72 to…
The Pros are Back on Tour LPGA TOUR The first LPGA event back was a new tournament called the Drive On Championship, held at the prestigious Inverness Club in Ohio. It teed off July 31 and was won by Danielle Kang, Monterey native Mina Harigae finished T-6 – likely fueled by her four wins on…
Junior Girls Grant Program In 2002, the PWGA and the WGANC came together to support junior girls in golf by creating the Junior Girls Golf Grant Program. Over $260,000 has since gone to support various local initiatives. The NCGA continues this program to further support and promote women’s golf at the junior level. This year,…