The Wanderer's Club is set to host the
Women's International Four Ball
The Florida State Golf Association (FSGA) will be
conducting the 68th annual Women’s
International
Four-Ball Championship at the esteemed
Wanderer’s
Club for the third consecutive year. Forty-eight
teams represented by 19 states and two
countries
will travel to Wellington, Florida February 16-17
to
contend for the coveted title of ‘Women’s
International Four-Ball Champions’. This historic
event, first conducted by the Jaycees of
Hollywood,
Florida, has comprised the names of golf’s finest
—
Babe Zaharias, Louise Suggs, Peggy Kirk-Bell,
and
others. The format of the championship will be
36-
holes of four-ball stroke play, generally known
as a
two-person, best-ball.
Among the talent of the 48 teams represented,
Florida natives and defending champions,
Meghan
Stasi, of Oakland Park, and Tara Connelly, of
Palm
Beach Gardens, have once again paired up en
route
to capturing the title for the second consecutive
year. The pair holds impressive resumes: Stasi
has
been honored as the Women’s Amateur Player of
the
Year for five consecutive years, and for good
reason
—a four-time Women’s International Four-Ball
champion and four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-
Amateur
champion has put her in the spotlight among her
contenders. Stasi was also a member of the
victorious 2008 Curtis Cup Team. Adding to the
exciting duo, Connelly had a productive 2014 by
placing third in the Florida Women’s Mid-
Amateur
Championship, advancing to the quarterfinals at
the
Florida Women’s Amateur, and had a runner-up
showing at the Florida Women’s Stroke Play
Championship. Along with 21 other USGA
appearances, Connelly capped the year by
advancing
to the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Mid-
Amateur.
Taffy Brower of Boynton Beach, Florida, 2014
FSGA
Hall-of-Fame inductee, and first ever Florida
Women’s State Golf Association Player-of-the-
Year,
will be competing in the field with an impressive
tournament history behind her. She has claimed
four
Women’s Florida State Match Play
Championships,
two Women’s State Stroke Play Championships
and
State Four-Ball Championships, and a victory at
the
State Senior Championship. In her golfing
career,
Brower has competed in an impressive 48 USGA
events, including a quarterfinal finish in the U.S.
Women’s Mid-Amateur in 2001, and a
quarterfinal
finish in the U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur in
1997
and 2001. Brower will increase that number to
49 in
May, where she will be competing in the
Inaugural
U.S. Women’s Four-Ball Championship at Bandon
Dunes Golf Resort.
The 2014 Senior Player of the Year, Mary Jane
Hiestand of Naples, Florida, will also be among
contenders in this year’s Women’s International
Four-Ball Championship. Last year marked
Hiestand’s fifth consecutive Senior Player of the
Year
title, which began with her second straight
victory at
the Women’s Senior Amateur Championship.
Hiestand had four additional top-five
championship
finishes last year, comprised of a third place at
the
Women’s International Four-Ball, fourth place at
the
Women’s Four-Ball Championship, second in the
Women’s Senior North and South Championship
and
champion of the Inaugural Women’s Senior
Amateur
Match Play Championship. Rounding out her
season,
Hiestand advanced to the Round of 32 matches
in the
U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship.
As the fourth championship in the Orange
Blossom
Tour, which includes the Harder Hall Women's
Invitational, the South Atlantic Amateur (SALLY),
and
the Ione D. Jones/Doherty Championship, the
Women’s International Four-Ball carries a
tremendous amount of history and prestige.
ABOUT THE
Women's International Four-Ball
The Women's International Four-Ball is conducted by
the
Florida State Golf Association at the Adena Golf and Country Club in Ocala, Florida.
Championship Format
- 36 holes of four-ball stroke play, (commonly
known
as a two-person, best-ball)
- Maximum of 48 total teams
- Two divisions - Championship and Middle
Division
- Teams must select their division at the time of
entry
- The overall Champion will be the team from the
Championship Division with the lowest 36-hole total
score
Eligibility
- Female amateur golfers
- Both entrants must be at least 18 years of age as
of the first day of the Championship
- A valid USGA Handicap Index not exceeding 18.0
at
time of entry
- Entrants are not required to be a member of the
FSGA
- Championship Division - At time of entry, all teams
in the Championship Division must have a combined
team handicap index of
14.0 or less
- Middle Division - 95% of each player's handicap
will
be used. The course handicap differential between
partners may be no more
than eight (8) strokes. (If the differential is more
than eight (8) strokes, the higher course handicap
will be reduced to allow for
the difference)
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