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The Kentucky Golf Association Releases its 2024 Schedule

The Kentucky Golf Association’s schedule for 2024 revealed.
 
LOUISVILLE, KY (January 18, 2024) – The Kentucky Golf Association is set for a full tournament season that will offer fun, welcoming events under a variety of formats designed for all types of amateur golfers across the Commonwealth.

The schedule opens in late April and runs through mid-October, with the year again highlighted by the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Championship Series.

Traditions Golf Club in Hebron opens this year with the KGA Amateur Series #1, in addition to hosting the 110th Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur on June 11-13. A multitude of qualifiers for this event will be held across the Commonwealth in May. The KGA heads to Lexington the following week for the 96th year of the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Women’s Kentucky Amateur, contested at the University Club of Kentucky's Big Blue course from June 17-19.

Later in the summer, the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Senior Amateur heads to Danville Country Club on August 12-13. The Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Championship Series opens in the fall back in Lexington, with the Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Mid-Am at Griffin Gate Golf Club on September 4 & 5. Closing the Clark's Series events for 2024 is the Clark's Women’s Kentucky Senior Amateur on September 10-11, hosted by Bardstown Country Club - Maywood this year.

The KGA Amateur Series returns with six events throughout the year, culminating in the KGA Amateur Series Championship on Monday, September 23, at Hunting Creek Country Club in Prospect. The KGA will also run five different USGA qualifiers in April, July, August, September and October. 

This year, a new event has been added to the schedule in the Kentucky Women's Team Championship hosted by The Woodford Club in Versailles on October 2-3. 

The full schedule is listed below and can also be viewed HERE. All dates and venues are subject to change. Major tournaments are denoted with bold text. Qualifying events are italicized.
DATE TOURNAMENT VENUE
April 22 KGA Am Series #1 Traditions Golf Club
April 22 HOPE for Heroes Polo Fields Country Club
May 1 U.S. Open Local Qualifier The Club at Olde Stone
May 6-7 Kentucky Senior Team Championship Wildwood Country Club
May 6 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Griffin Gate Golf Club
May 8 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Danville Country Club
May 11 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Paxton Park
May 21 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Bowling Green Country Club
May 21 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Kenton County - Willows
May 22 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Nevel Meade GC
May 23 KGA Am Series #2 Oxmoor Country Club
May 25 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Qualifier Bellefonte CC
June 3-4 Kentucky Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship Elizabethtown Country Club
June 11-13 Clark's Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Amateur Championship Traditions Golf Club
June 17-19 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Women’s Kentucky Amateur University Club of Kentucky (Big Blue)
June 24 KGA Am Series #3 Winchester Country Club
July 1-2 Kentucky Senior Open Oldham County Country Club
July 4 PGA Tour Event Pre-Qualifier (TBD) Boone’s Trace National Golf Club
July 8 PGA Tour Event Monday Qualifier (TBD) Boone’s Trace National Golf Club
July 8 KGA Am Series #4 Audubon Country Club
July 8 U.S. Senior Amateur Qualifier Boone’s Trace National Golf Club
July 15 Kentucky Team Championship Lake Forest Country Club
July 15-16 Kentucky Women's Open Kearney Hill GL
July 23-25 Kentucky Open University of Louisville Golf Club
August 5 ISCO Industries Youth on Course Kentucky Pro-Am Valhalla Golf Club
August 6-8 Kentucky Match Play Championships Heritage Hill Golf Club
August 12-13 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Kentucky Senior Amateur Danville Country Club
August 24 KGA Am Series #5 London Country Club
August 27 U.S. Mid-Am Qualifier Keene Trace Golf Club
September 4-5 Clark's Pump-N-Shop Mid-Am Amateur Championship Griffin Gate Golf Club
September 10-11 Clark’s Pump-N-Shop Women’s Kentucky Senior Amateur Bardstown Country Club - Maywood
September 16 KGA Am Series #6 Park Mammoth Golf Club
September 19 U.S. Women's Four-Ball Qualifier Big Spring Country Club
September 23 KGA Am Series Championship Hunting Creek Country Club
October 2-3 Kentucky Women's Team Championship The Woodford Club
October 8 U.S. Four-Ball Qualifier Hurstbourne Country Club
TBD Coomer Cup TBD

The year’s Western Kentucky Am Series schedule will be distributed later in the offseason. Registration for all tournaments will open on Tuesday, March 5.

About the Kentucky Golf Association:
The Kentucky Golf Association (KGA) is one of the three organizations encompassed under Golf House Kentucky, in addition to the Kentucky Golf Foundation (KGF) and Kentucky PGA Section (KPGA). The Kentucky Golf Association represents the amateur body of Kentucky’s golfers working in assistance with the United States Golf Association (USGA). The KGA provides its Member Clubs with a wide range of services, including handicapping, USGA course and slope ratings, and tournament management software. The KGA also operates the state’s premier amateur tournaments along with USGA National Championship qualifiers. Alongside the KGF and KPGA, the KGA strives to promote the benefits and enjoyment of golf while continuing to grow the sport across the Commonwealth.
 
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