WSCGA honors Dawn Woodard’s national championship, recognizes Burnet and Venable as Players of the Year By Stan Olenik. Editor-Publisher. The Golf Club When Dawn Woodard was presented the trophy as the 2025 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Champion, it was not only a landmark moment for the Greer golfer, […]
South Carolina golfers played some exceptional golf and are making a mark in USGA competition.
It could almost be considered a going away present as Lea Venable is just a few months away from leaving the Mid-Am ranks and beginning a new chapter in her golf career as a senior. The Holy Tree golfer won the Women’s South Carolina Golf Association Player of […]
When the women who annually played in the Greenville County Ladies Amateur found out that the event was being discontinued their first reaction was shock. “A lot of us were surprised, we started calling around and found that a lot of the women who played in the tournament […]
USGA Men’s Mid Am Medalist Stephen Behr lost his round of 16 match and is out of the competition at the Charlotte Country Club. In St. Louis, Lea Venable from Greenville was eliminated in her round of 32 match at the USGA Women’s Mid-Am. Behr opened the […]
Medalist Stephen Behr won his round of 64 match at the USGA Mid-Am championship being played at the Country Club of Charlotte. Behr fell behind Jeffery Osberg from Pennsylvania early in their match. The former Clemson All-American evened the match on the front nine and pulled away for […]
Stephen Behr had the kind of credentials needed to get a jump start on a PGA Tour career after finishing at Clemson. Instead the 2016 Byron Nelson Award winner decided to use his education to pursue a business career and keep his amateur standing. The 2016 Byron Nelson […]
Lea Venable defended her Greater Greenville Ladies Amateur title and added to her record five championships with a win at Southern Oaks. Venable shot rounds of 66 and 69 for a 133 total and a convincing 13 stroke margin of victory over the field. “I’m a little surprised […]
Lea Venable is no stranger to the top of the leader board at the Greater Greenville Ladies Golf championship. Venable has won five championships including a win in a 10 hole playoff last year. This year it may be a little easier for the former USC golfer. An […]
It started out as a golf tournament and turned into a marathon at the Greater Greenville Ladies Golf Association’s Championship played at Carolina Springs. Lea Venable earned her fifth Greenville County championship by outlasting Christ Church High School golfer Peyton Gillespie in a ten hole playoff. The Greenville Country […]
