Competitors in the 2022 Virginia State Golf Association Women’s Stroke Play Championships battled wet and drizzly conditions on Thursday at Mount Vernon Country Club. At the end of the day, four champions were crowned.
45th VSGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship: Burke’s Alexandra Austin won her second title in the event, besting four-time champion and close friend Lauren Greenlief of Ashburn by one stroke. Austin shot 68-73-74 over the event’s three days for an aggregate total of 2-over 215 on Mount Vernon’s par-71 course. Both of Austin’s titles have come in northern Virginia, as she won the 2016 championship at Winchester Country Club.
25th VSGA Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship: Keswick’s Andrea Miller shattered the tournament record for margin of victory, shooting 70-74 for a two-day, 2-over 144 and a 14-shot win over Spotswood Country Club’s Katie Cox, a former member at Mount Vernon. The previous largest margin of victory was Dot Bolling’s seven-shot win over Robbye Unger in 2002.
5th VSGA Super Senior Women’s Stroke Play Championship: On a day where par was indeed a good score, Mount Vernon member Linda DiVall rallied down the closing stretch with five straight pars and another in a one-hole playoff to best fellow northern Virginian Arline Hoffman. DiVall shot 78-76—154 and claimed her first title in the 65+ division.
1st VSGA Women’s Net Stroke Play Championship: Winchester’s Chelsea Hester posted 72-72 over the championship’s two days for a net total of 144 and a six-stroke victory over Herndon Centennial’s Richelle Davis.
A baby bald eagle watches over the 12th fairway, waiting for its parents to come back with a meal.
Shawn McCullough chips to 14 green
Arline Hoffman celebrates after draining a 45-foot birdie putt from off the green.
Linda DiVall chips to 14 green
Arline Hoffman
Linda DiVall
Becki Davis
Shawn McCullough
Lynne Leith
Richelle Davis
Allison Cherry
Chelsea Hester
Matt Smiley dutifully works the squeegee on the saturated 18th green
Allison Cherry chips to 18 green
Lynne Leith escapes the bunker on 18
Chelsea Hester reacts to a missed putt on 18
Katie Cox
Joan Gardner
Andrea Miller
Mary Cabriele
Andrea Miller escapes the bunker on 10
Joan Gardner wonders why her putt didn't slide to the right on 10.
Andrea Miller celebrates a birdie putt on 10
Jessica Spicer putts on 8
Lauren Greenief putts on 8
Alexandra Austin putts on 8
Alyssa Montgomery watches her putt on 8
Lauren Greenlief
Alexandra Austin
Jessica Spicer
Alyssa Montgomery
Winners Linda DiVall, Andrea Miller, Alexandra Austin and Chelsea Hester
Women's Stroke Play champion Alexandra Austin
Senior Women's Stroke Play winner Andrea Miller
Super Senior Women's Stroke Play winner Linda DiVall
Net Women's Stroke Play winner Chelsea Hester
