As part of its expansion of competitive golf opportunities for women in Western Pennsylvania, the WPGA’s Board of Directors has approved an additional women’s event for its 2025 competition schedule.
The Inaugural WPGA Women’s Inter-Club Finals will take place on August 4 at Green Oaks Country Club.
The event will run concurrently with the 36th WPGA Jamison Cup Inter-Club Finals, a team competition in which male competitors represent their home clubs.
“We are thrilled that, for the second straight year, the WPGA is able to add a new women’s golf competition to our schedule,” said Terry Teasdale, executive director of the WPGA. “This event not only features a fun, competitive format, but it also shows the growing interest in golf for women in our region in both the competitive and recreational sides of the game.”
An invitational, the Women’s Inter-Club Finals will include six teams, each comprised of six players from the Championship Division of WGAWP Team Matches conducted in May.
The format will be 18 holes of Gross Stableford Stroke Play. The top four scores from each team per hole will count towards the team score.
Clubs represented in the Inaugural Women’s Inter-Club Finals will be Diamond Run Golf Club, Oakmont Country Club, Sewickley Heights Golf Club, Allegheny Country Club, Longue Vue Club and Westmoreland Country Club.
In 2024, the WPGA introduced its Women’s Triple Play event, which received exceptional interest from female golfers in Western Pennsylvania and is set to return on September 8 of this year.
“The addition of multiple competitions for women and junior girls in our region over these last two years will have a considerable impact on the growth of the game in our region and beyond,” said Carol Onufro, president of the WPGA Board of Directors.
“We look forward to helping continue that development of the sport for females not only throughout the rest of the 2025 competition season, but in years to come.”
One of the driving forces behind the surge of golf participation in recent years has been due to female interest, both competitively and recreationally.
Per the USGA, in 2024, around 25 percent of all active golfers in the United States were female, a strong uptick from where that number sat just a few years prior. Junior girls make up over 33 percent of all junior competitors in the country, as well.
The WPGA provides numerous competitions each year for women and junior girls, including a major championship event in the Women’s Amateur, Women’s Senior Amateur, Women’s Super-Senior Amateur and Women’s Mid-Amateur Championships, set for Fox Chapel Golf Club on July 28.