Meghan Stasi once dominated the Women’s Golf Association of
Philadelphia’s Amateur Championship, winning the Glenna Collett Vare Cup seven
straight times from 1999 to 2005.
Stasi went on to bigger and better things, including winning
four U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur
championships, but this week she was back looking for an eighth Philadelphia
Women’s Amateur title at Wilmington Country Club’s South Course.
And Friday she got it, outlasting defending champion Emily
Gimpel, 2 and 1, in a scheduled 36-hole final. Gimpel is a recent University of
Maryland graduate and was a scholastic standout at Mount St. Joseph.
Stasi, the former Meghan Bolger, has coached at the
University of Mississippi, briefly flirted with a professional career, and,
from what I can gather from the Internet, helps out her husband Danny at his
restaurant in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Not sure if that puts her in the class
restauranteur-wise with the late, great Helen Sigel Wilson, but she is gaining
on the legendary Philadelphia Country Club player’s total of 14 Philadelphia
Women’s Amateur titles.
Stasi had to fight off another collegian in the semifinals
as she edged James Madison junior Kelsey Sloan, 1-up, with a birdie on the 18th
hole. Gimpel defeated Kerry Rutan of Philadelphia Cricket Club, 4 and 3, in the
other semifinal.
Merion Golf Club’s Catherine Elliott, a former Notre Dame
and University of Pennsylvania standout, qualified for match play and fell to
Pamela Brown, 1-up, in the opening round of matches.
Merion’s Liz Haines, winner of this championship in 1985 and
1994, also qualified for match play. She knocked off Angie Coleman, 2 and 1,
before falling to Rutan, 6 and 4, in the second round.
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