ANN ARBOR – The Polo Fields Golf & Country Club has hosted a variety of Golf Association of Michigan tournaments in recent years, and this time teams of top female golfers get their chance to enjoy the club’s modern links style golf course.
The 33-team field will play four-ball or best-ball stroke play over two rounds Monday and Tuesday to determine champions in an Overall division (age 49-and-under) and Senior division (50-and-over).
The Polo Fields was designed by Ann Arbor’s own William Newcomb, an award-winning designer, and opened in 1995. It is a private golf club with generous fairways, a variety of different design features through the 18 holes and fast challenging greens.
The course plays to a maximum of 6,828 yards and has multiple tee positions starting from 5,122 yards.
Brad Streza is the head golf professional and Michael Brown the superintendent. Visit polofieldssccmi.com for more information.
This year’s championship will have new winners in both divisions as the defending champion teams are not returning intact.
Last year at Saginaw Country Club Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll of Haslett and Julie Massa of Holt won in a sudden-death playoff with Western Michigan University golfers Alissa Fish of Clarklake and Brooke Gibbons of Lapeer to take the Overall title, and the team of Terry Delcamp of Grand Blanc and Joan Garety of Ada won the Senior Division title for the sixth time in the last seven years and fifth consecutively.
Delcamp is the only one of those golfers returning to the field this year, and she is paired up with Suzanne Conlin of Ann Arbor.
Four sets of sisters will be teams – Grace and Bridget Boczar of Canton, Avery and Madison Manning of Dexter, Amaya and Mia Melendez of Ann Arbor and Maggie and Annie Pietila of Brighton.
The gross winners’ names in the Overall and Senior divisions are inscribed on the tournament trophy, which his named The Garety/Hiestand Trophy in honor of Garety and fellow Michigan Golf Hall of Fame member Mary Jane Hiestand, who now lives in Florida.
