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Summit Golf Star Eisenreich Thriving During Busy Summer
Rockwood Summit senior golfer Lindsey Eisenreich will compete at the 73rd Annual Missouri Women's Golf Association Amateur Championship at Bellerive Country Club.
The 73rd Annual Missouri Women's Golf Association (MWGA) Amateur Championship will be held July 12-14 at Bellerive Country Club.
The field includes the very best area players of the past, present and future. Seven-time champion Ellen Port is in the field, as well as Marcella Rose, who won the tournament in 1963 and 1969, and two-time champion Jamie Berkmeyer.
It also features a number of area standout college players and some top high school golfers, including Lindsey Eisenreich, who will be a senior this fall at Rockwood Summit High School.
"That is a big tournament, but I am going to try and treat it like any other tournament," said Eisenreich. "I have had enough experience playing in tournaments. I am going to enjoy having a caddy and playing against such good competition. I just want to go out and have fun and play my best."
The summer of 2011 has included a lot of traveling for Eisenreich.
She competed in tournaments in North Carolina and South Carolina to open the summer. She has also played in tournaments in Tennessee and Nebraska.
"I love to travel," Eisenreich said. "It is a good experience to play different courses and against different golfers."
One of her summer highlights was a good showing in the Four-State Tournament in Beatrice, Nebraska.
The format included five top golfers from Missouri, Nebraska, Iowa and Kansas in a 36-hole tournament.
Eisenreich shot an 81 and 77 to help the Missouri team, which had won five of the past six Four-State Tournaments. Missouri finished two strokes behind champion Nebraska. Nebraska's Danielle Lemek of Doniphan was the individual medalist with rounds of 75 and 71.
"It was my first time playing in that event and it was an awesome experience," said Eisenreich, who finished fifth in the Missouri Class 2 Tournament in the fall.
"We were all a bit bummed about coming so close and not winning. But I enjoyed it.
"It was a different way of looking at golf with the team format. You have so much more to play for in a format like this."
Eisenreich is pleased with her overall play this summer.
"I had to shake off some of the winter rust at the start," she said. "I need a little work on my driving but my chipping and putting have been very good this summer."
The schedule does not get any easier for Eisenreich this summer as she will play in the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Tournaments in Kansas City and Springfield.
