Championship Begins Tuesday, August 13 at MacGregor Downs Country Club

WEST END, NC -- The 36th Carolinas Women’s Four-Ball Championship will be conducted Tuesday and Wednesday, August 13-14 at MacGregor Downs Country Club in Cary, NC.

2012 Champions Brooke Baker of Raleigh, NC and Lea Venable of Greenville, SC will not return as a team to defend.  Baker will not be competing this year; however her partner from last year, Venable, will compete with a new partner in Hayley Hammond of Mooresville, N.C.

The championship is contested at 36 holes of four-ball stroke play with a “Championship” division and “Tournament” division (shorter course) counting only gross scores. The "Tournament” division plays a shorter course and is ineligible for the overall championship. The field will be pre-flighted by total team handicap index. Approximate yardage for the event is will be 5700 yards for the Championship Division and 5100 yards for the Tournament Division

The event is open to CGA female amateurs with a minimum age of 13 as of August 13, 2013 and who are legal residents of North Carolina or South Carolina.

Two teams hold the record for the lowest total of 129:

1994 - by Amber Marsh and Page Marsh of Jamestown, NC at the Country Club of South Carolina in Florence, SC.

2006 - by Blythe Worley, Greenville, SC and Laura Crawford, Lancaster, SC at Seabrook Island Club (Ocean Course) in Seabrook Island, SC.

The most Carolinas Women's Four-Ball titles won by any team is three which belongs to two teams:

Linda Marsh and Page Marsh of Jamestown, NC in 1982, 1984, 1985 & Leigh Armentrout of McLeansville, NC and Vicki Layton of Greensboro, NC in 1987, 1989 and 1990.

MacGregor Downs Country club is a Willard Byrd design and was completed in 1967 after a 1962 land purchase by J. Gregory Poole, Sr.  This is the sixth CGA championship hosted by MacGregor Downs CC. 

To view the pairings and starting times, click on the Carolinas Women's Four-Ball Championship website link:

https://www.carolinasgolf.org/championship/home/wom4ball/year/2013

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