2011 Women’s Team Championship

 

Danielle Davis, Ginette Spinucci Win Georgia Women’s Team Championship For Third-Straight Year
Dynamic duo wins by five strokes at Wilmington Island Club

SAVANNAH, Ga. – The duo of Danielle Davis of St. Simons Island and Ginette Spinucci of Stone Mountain fired a final-round 68 to win the 26th Annual Georgia Women’s Team Championship by five strokes over runner-ups Maria Johnson of Jesup and Ashley Beecher of Hazelhurst.  Davis and Spinucci, who posted a 2-under-par 140 (72-68) final score, is the first team to go back-to-back-to-back (2009-11) in the history of this event. 

 

With the victory, Davis has now won four Women’s Team Championships.  The last three were with Spinucci, and her first title in 2004 was with Maria Johnson of Jesup.  Spinucci picked up her sixth title, and fourth in a row.  She has won two with Marilyn Nolan-Johnson of Marietta (2005, ’06), one with four-time GSGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year Brenda Pictor of Marietta (2008), and the past three with Davis (2009-11).

 

Johnson and Beecher’s final score was 3-over-par 145 (76-69), which was one stroke better than the third-place team, Liz Butler and Deborah Agran (4-over-par 146 (76-70), both of Greensboro.  Finishing fourth was the team of Betsy Butler of Atlanta and Phyllis Foisy of Statham (5-over-par 147 (75-72) and fifth was the team of Marilyn Nolan-Johnson of Marietta and Debra Partridge of Roswell (6-over-par 148 (77-71).  Nancy Hendrix and Elaine Carsel, both of Athens, finished sixth at 10-over-par 152 (76-76) and Jodie Shepard and Cheryl Drewyer, both of Newnan, finished seventh at 11-over-par 153 (79-74).  The team ofJean Davis and Sissi Gann, both of Kathleen, rounded out the top-10 of the Championship flight at 19-over-par 161 (80-81). 

 

Karen Sellick and Pat Kock, both of Savannah, held on to their first-round lead and won the First flight at 5-over-par 147 (73-74).  In the Second flight, Lurisa Waldron of Lavonia and Kaye Lewis of Fair Play won at 12-over-par 154 (82-72), and in the Third flight, Jean Edge and Bonnie Beene, both of Warner Robins, won at 18-over-par 160 (87-73).  Brenda Duke of Perry and Connie Haugabook of Montezuma tied with Patsy Long of Jasper and Laura Morris of Big Canoe to share the top spot of Fourth flight at 26-over-par 168. 

 

Entries were open to two-person teams of female amateur golfers who are 18 years old as of September 27, belong to a GSGA member club and have a maximum handicap index of 31.9.  Teammates must have had a handicap differential of no more than eight strokes.   

 

The Championship flight, the only flight eligible for the overall title, played the course at 5,482 yards.  The remaining flights played from 5,235 yards.  All flights played the course as a par 71. 

 

Founded in 1916, the Georgia State Golf Association (GSGA) received its official charter on June 24, 1924.  Since that date, the GSGA has grown to one of the largest state amateur golf associations in the country, with over 350 member clubs and 85,000 individual members.  With a mission to promote and preserve amateur golf in the state of Georgia, GSGA offers a computerized handicapping service, course rating and measuring, and annually conducts a full schedule of statewide competitions for men and women of all age groups.  Other services include a summer-long junior sectional program, award-winning Golf Georgia magazine, membership recognition and rewards programs, management of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame and a charitable foundation administering two college scholarship programs.