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2011 Dixie Amateur highlights
The recent Dixie Amateur once again produced outstanding champions in all divisions.
Curtis Thompson of Coral Springs, Fla., won the men's division. Ron Carter of Monticello, Ind., won the senior men’s title and Pat Vincelli of Stuart, Fla., won the super senior title for golfers 65 and older.
A full field of 240 of the top amateurs from 32 U.S. states and 18 other countries competed in men’s division.
Paula Reto, also of Coral Springs, became the first player to win consecutive women’s championships while Diane Lang of Weston, Fla., claimed her third straight senior women's Dixie Amateur championship. Golfers from 21 states and nine other countries were in the field.
The Dixie Amateur is organized, conducted and hosted by ClubLink. The men’s division is contested at Heron Bay Golf Club in Coral Springs and nearby Woodlands Country Club, both of which are ClubLink Clubs, while the women play at Heron Bay.
Dates for the 2012 Dixie Amateur will be announced in early February.
For more information, please contact Tournament Director Dave Salerno, dsalerno@clublink.ca.
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source:Sun Sentinel
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Paula Reto successfully defends her Dixie Amateur crown
Click here for Women's Final Results
Paula Reto blasts out of a bunker at Heron Bay Golf Club in Coral Springs, Fla. on her way to defending her Dixie Amateur title. (Marty Perlmutter photo)
CORAL SPRINGS, Fla.— Paula Reto cruised to a five-shot win over Thai teenager Moriya Jutanugarn on Monday to successfully defend her Dixie Amateur title at Heron Bay Golf Club.
Reto shot 13-under 275 (69-67-70-69) while Jutanugarn went 68-75-69-68. Jaye Marie Green of Boca Raton, Fla., finished alone in third another shot back (71-74-67-69), while England's Holly Clyburn (72-73-71-70—286) was solo fourth. Tied for fifth at even-par 288 were Madison Opfer of Plant City, Fla., and Madison Pressel of Boca Raton.
"I consider Heron Bay my home course, so that helped a lot," said Reto, who was born in South Africa but now makes her home in Coral Springs. "I just tried to stay focused and play my game; to play conservative, but good.
"Normally, my strength is my long game," said the 21-year-old Reto, a junior at Purdue University who did not start golfing until 2005. "But this week it was my putting that made the difference. The greens here were great; the whole course was in great shape."
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Reto, who became the first back-to-back champion in women's Dixie history, said the win would give her increased confidence heading back into the collegiate season. "The Dixie is a lot bigger than most college tournaments, so it will be a big boost for me, especially this year with this field. There were a lot of great players here this week."
On Sunday, Diane Lang of Weston, Fla., solidified her reputation as one of the dominant senior golfers in the world, edging Lisa Schlesinger of Laytonsville, Md., by two shots to claim her third straight senior women's Dixie Amateur. Ivy Steinberg of Stouffville, Ont., finished third. Lang, a three-time U.S. Senior Amateur champion, has won the title every year since the division was established in 2009.
Almost 100 top female amateur golfers from 21 U.S. states and nine other countries were entered in the Dixie Amateur, one of the most prestigious championships in the world. The women's championship is played over 72 holes (Friday through Monday) with a 36-hole cut, while the seniors play 54 holes (no cut) from Friday through Sunday.
While the men's Dixie Amateur has been played since 1924, the women's division was instituted in 2002. Since then, it has featured world-class fields and an impressive list of champions who went on to make their mark on the LPGA.
The inaugural women's champion, future LPGA winner Meaghan Francella, narrowly defeated Paula Creamer, now an LPGA superstar. In 2007, the sensational Alexis Thompson won at the age of 12 before breaking onto the professional scene this year, becoming the youngest-ever to win on the LPGA and European women's tours at 16. (Her brother, Curtis, a freshman at Louisiana State University, won this year's men's Dixie Amateur on Dec. 22.) That same year, two-time Dixie champion Angela Park (2003, 2005) was named the LPGA's rookie of the year.
The Dixie Amateur is organized, conducted, and hosted by ClubLink (www.clublink.ca), one of the world's largest multi-course owners.
For more information, including complete results, please visit www.dixieamateur.com.
Dixie Amateur Women's Champions
2011 Paula Reto
2010 Paula Reto
2009 Lindy Duncan
2008 Candace Schepperle
2007 Alexis Thompson
2006 Vicky Hurst
2005 Angela Park
2004 Ashley Hoagland
2003 Angela Park
2002 Meaghan Francella
Dixie Amateur Senior Women's Champions
2011 Diane Lang
2010 Diane Lang
2009 Diane Lang
CONTACT: John Gordon, 905-841-5364, jgordon@clublink.ca
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Dixie Amateur announces Bob Toski as honorary chairman
and Brian Quinn as tournament committee chairman
CORAL SPRINGS, Florida (Sept. 30, 2011)—The Dixie Amateur announced today that Bob
Toski, famed golf instructor and broadcast personality, is the honorary chairman of this year’s
tournament and Brian Quinn, the highly regarded golf coach at Temple University, will chair the
tournament committee.
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