BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (Aug. 6, 2023) – The 29th annual Fore State Team Championship will be held at Cedar Ridge Country Club in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma from Aug. 7-8. Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas will each send 12 female golfers to the tournament to compete for the championship title.
Nancy Walther will be the captain of Team Missouri, and the rest of the players will be broken into three different flights: Amateur (under 39), Mid-Amateur (40-59) and Master (60+).
Here are the players set to compete for Team Missouri:
Amateur Flight
Kiser Pannier, Sedalia – Missouri State University
Taryn Overstreet, Poplar Bluff – Drury University
Ella Overstreet, Poplar Bluff – Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Kyleigh Pfitzner, Ozark – Missouri State University
Mid-Amateur Flight
Ellen Port, St. Louis
Christie Blasi, Ozark
Mindy Coyle, Columbia
Dee Johnson, Perryville
Master Flight
Janis Clemens, Sedalia
Barb Blankenship, Jefferson City
Tina Jones, Wildwood
Stephany Powell, Springfield
Players are chosen to represent Missouri based on the Women’s Point List for the current year and prior year and how they finished in the MGA Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur and MGA Women’s Senior Amateur.
A practice round will be held on Sunday, Aug. 6, and a welcome party will follow at 6 p.m.
The tournament will kick off with round one on Monday, Aug. 7 with 8 a.m. tee times, where each team will play four ball matches. At 2 p.m., round two will consist of foursome matches.
The third and final round will be held on Tuesday, Aug. 8 starting at 8 a.m. In the final round, each player will compete in single matches. An awards luncheon will follow at 1:30 p.m.
For more information on the Fore State Championship, click here: https://www.mogolf.org/event/womens-fore-state-by-invitation/
If you have any other questions, please contact the MGA office at mogolf@mogolf.org or (573) 636-8994.
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ABOUT MGA: The Missouri Golf Association is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to promote the best interests and true spirit of the game of golf throughout the State of Missouri.
The Missouri Golf Association was started in St. Louis in 1905 to run the Amateur Championship. Four founding clubs would be the ones in existence in St. Louis in those early years – St. Louis Country Club, Algonquin Golf Club, Glen Echo Golf Club and Normandie Golf Club. Four years later, the invite-only Missouri Amateur was held in Kansas City at Evanston Club. 1911 marked the real organization of the MGA with Bonner Miller as Secretary and Executive Director. Ever since then, the MGA has striven to provide tournaments and spaces for Missouri golfers to sharpen their skills and enjoy the game.
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