Register for the Energy Producers, Inc. Texas Women's Open at Rolling Hills Country Club, Deadline in Two Weeks
DALLAS, Texas –
The deadline for the 2017 Energy Producers, Inc. Texas Women’s Open at Rolling Hills Country Club is quickly approaching. The entry deadline for all contestants is Thursday, July 6 at 5:00 p.m. CDT. The championship is scheduled for July 12-14 at Rolling Hills Country Club in Arlington, Texas. Entry forms and online registration are available at www.ntpga.com. Contestants do not have to be residents of Texas to play.
The 54-hole stroke play event with a cut after 36 holes to the top 50 and ties will be limited to the first 144 professionals and amateur contestants over the age of 17 and junior qualifiers. Professionals and amateurs will be competing for a projected overall purse of $27,500 (based on a full field). This year’s Energy Producers, Inc. Texas Women’s Open at Rolling Hills Country Club champion will receive an exemption into the 2018 LPGA Tour Volunteers of America Texas Shootout.
The field will include the following exempt players should they choose to participate: Past champions, top 10 professionals and ties from the 2016 Texas Women’s Open, top 5 amateurs and ties from the 2016 Texas Women’s Open, LPGA Tour Members, Symetra Tour Members with Priority A or Priority C status, 10 exemptions from Junior Tour qualifying and 2 sponsor exemptions.
Unless otherwise exempt, amateurs who are 17 years of age or younger (as of July 12, 2017) shall gain access to the 2017 Texas Women’s Open via qualifying tournaments. Information on those events can be found at www.ntpga.com.
Entry fees for the event are as follows: Amateurs - $265; LPGA Members and PGA Members and Apprentices - $315; Other Professionals - $365.
Presenting sponsors of the 2017 Energy Producers, Inc. Texas Women’s Open at Rolling Hills Country Club include, Antigua-Slazenger, Arlington Convention and Visitor Bureau, El Gabacho Tex-Mex Grill and the University of Texas at Arlington.
For further information about the Energy Producers, Inc. Texas Women’s Open at Rolling Hills Country Club, or to register, please contact the Northern Texas PGA at (214) 420-7421 or visit the NTPGA website at www.ntpga.com.
About the Texas Women's Open
The Women's Texas Open was played from 1935 - 1955. Over the span of two decades, the event was held 17 times - 13 years at River Crest Country Club and four years at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth. The event was conducted by the Fort Worth Women's Golf Association, supervised by River Crest's longtime professional A.G. Mitchell, and was last played in 1955. Some of the game's greatest names captured the event including Babe Zaharias who won the title five times, Aniela Goldthwaite, a three-time winner, and Betsy Rawls, Beverly Hanson, Polly Riley, and Betty Jameson who each captured the title twice. The event was revived in 2001 by the Northern Texas PGA to promote the game to female golfers throughout the region and the name was changed to the Texas Women's Open.
