Teams were announced for the Concession Cup, a Ryder Cup-style match among the top mid-ams and seniors in the U.S. and Europe. The fifth edition, which will be played November 6-8 at The Landings Golf and Athletic Club in Savannah, Georgia, will include women for the first time.
The match schedule will feature four-ball, foursomes and singles formats.
Team Europe – men’s mid-ams: Matthew McClean, Caolan Rafferty, Jonathan Bale, Alexis Leray, Markus Habeler, Hugh Foley; men’s seniors: John Kemp, Ronnie Clark, Michael Flindt, Stephen Jensen, Pascal Grizot, Rupert Kellock; women’s mid-ams: Sylvie Van Molle, Annick Riff, Carole Danten-Azfi, Jackie Foster, Sophie Ducrey, Helene Malvy; women’s seniors: Céline Manche, Jennifer Saxton, Jessica Hall, Jessica Ross, Pauline Stein, Aiden Walsh; captains: Tore Sviland and Elaine Ratcliffe.
Team USA – men’s mid-ams: Evan Beck, Will Davenport, Joseph Deraney, Stephen Behr, Andrew Price, Scott Harvey; men’s seniors: Louis Brown, Randy Haag, Gene Elliott, Michael McCoy, Robert Gerwin, Todd White; women’s mid-ams: Lauren Greenlief, Kelsey Chugg, Ina Kim-Schaad, Jackie Rogowicz, Julia Potter-Bobb, Kimberly Dinh; women’s seniors: Tara Joy-Connelly, Kathy Hartwiger, Martha Leach, Lara Tennant, Suzi Spotleson, Ellen Port; captains: Danny Yates and Carol-Semple Thompson. READ MORE
Ellen Port rolled to a seven-stroke victory Friday at the fourth LNGA Senior Amateur Championship at Muskogee (Oklahoma) Golf Club.
Port, 66, of Sunset Hills, Missouri, shot 71-69-74 for a 1-over 214 total. Kimbra Benson of Pinehurst, North Carolina, finished second at 8-over 221.
Port won the LNGA Amateur in 1994. She is a four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion and three-time winner of the U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur.
Joan Gardner of Alexandria, Virginia, shot 10-over 223 to win the inaugural Super Senior division title.
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Led by Jack Bigham, who will begin his fourth season representing England Golf, the organization named its 13-player national men’s team and its five-player national boys’ squad for 2024-25. READ MORE
Farmington Country Club’s Main Course will celebrate its centennial by hosting the 2027 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, the USGA announced. Portions of Farmington’s clubhouse in Charlottesville, Virginia, date to 1803 and were designed by Thomas Jefferson. READ MORE
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