Set for Monday, July 22, this year’s Ohio Girls Golf Foundation Showcase featuring LPGA Tour Professional Barb Mucha will kick off the high school golf season by hosting players from all over the state.
The event will be held at Avon Oaks Country Club in Avon. Prior to the event, 100-plus girls will enjoy a series of clinics with area PGA and LPGA golf professionals.
The longstanding OGGF tournament is open to high school girls, including incoming freshmen and graduated seniors. The 18-hole team and individual event will include breakfast and lunch, and dinner and awards take place after play around 4 p.m.
“I’m thrilled to be celebrating our 30th anniversary at the Showcase,” says Mucha. “Over the decades, we’ve served golfers of all abilities, who’ve come here to learn, compete and succeed.”
For Parma Heights native Mucha, who had to play on the boys’ high school golf team because there was no girls’ team, headlining the OGGF Showcase has become an annual tradition. After playing at Michigan State University, she went on to enjoy a long and distinguished career with the LPGA (1987-2007) including five major wins. But her consistency is even more impressive than her victories. She posted top 10 finishes in 115 of the 321 LPGA tournaments she played in. She has carded six wins on the Futures Tour and one on the Legends Tour and represented the United States on winning Handa Cup teams in 2014 and 2015. In 2011, Mucha was inducted into the Cleveland Sports Hall of Fame.
Since the formation of the Ohio Girls Golf Foundation in 1994, the number of girls’ high school golf teams in the state has grown from zero to more than 200. The Foundation’s mission is to encourage, sponsor, and support the game of golf for girls by providing college scholarships, golf training programs, and financial assistance.
To register for the Showcase or find out more, go to OGGF.org or email Executive Director Lynne Plaisance at lynneplaisance@gmail.com.
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