WOGA ED Laurie Campbell

LAURIE CAMPBELL President WOGA

WOMEN’S OKLAHOMA GOLF ASSOCIATION Kudos to Dills, Parker, Maxwell-Berning

It’s spring and a new golf season is beginning with our first event, The Stableford Partnership, at Lincoln Park on April 25-26.

I would like to take this opportunity to champion three of the many women who have been instrumental in helping WOGA achieve our mission of “growing the game of golf for women and girls in the State of Oklahoma.”

We sadly say good-bye to longtime member, Jill Parker. Thanks to the generosity of her family and friends, WOGA will be able to award additional grants and scholarships to deserving junior girls in her honor.

The 1963 Women’s Oklahoma State Amateur champion, Susie Maxwell Berning, was inducted into World Golf Hall of Fame’s 2022 class alongside Tiger Woods. Also a threetime Oklahoma state high school champion, she was the first woman to receive a golf scholarship to Oklahoma City University, playing on the men’s golf team. Susie also had a lucrative LPGA career winning three U.S. Women’s Opens and was inducted in the Oklahoma Golf Hall of Fame in 2012.

State Rep. Sheila Dills is a longtime champion and supporter of

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Date Event Location

April 25-26 Stableford Partnership Lincoln Park West, OKC May 23-24 Senior Championship Oakwood Country Club, Enid June 27-28 Stroke Play/Mid-Am Championship Cedar Ridge CC, Broken Arrow July 11 11th WOGA Fundraiser Stillwater CC, Stillwater July 12-13 72nd Girls Junior State Stillwater CC, Stillwater July 18-21 104th State Amateur Championship Gaillardia Country Club, OKC Aug. 1-2 Fore State Championship Canyon Farms GC, Lenexa, KS Aug. 15-16 Four Ball Partnership Shangri-La Resort, Monkey Island Sept. 26-27 WOGA Cup Winter Creek, Blanchard

Sheila Dills State Representative

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WOGA. She was the Oklahoma Girls Junior State champion in 1984 and went on to win the Women’s Oklahoma State Amateur Championship in 1989, 1994, 1995 and 1996. Sheila states that these events were very important to her because of the lack of opportunities for juniors to compete in Oklahoma and were instrumental in helping her to attain her college golf scholarship at Oklahoma State. She served on the WOGA Board for several years and led the organization as president for four years. She was instrumental in helping attain WOGA’s 501c3 tax status and helped to organize the LPGA Girls’ Golf Program as well as strengthening WOGA’s scholarship and grant program. As a small- town girl from Vinita, Sheila proves that anything is possible.

If you would like to participate in a WOGA event or be updated on organization and tournament news, you can join at WOGA.golfgenius.com. Or contact us at wogagolfoffice@gmail. com. I hope to see you at one of our upcoming events.

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