ORANGE BLOSSOM TOUR FINALE

INTERNATIONAL FOUR-BALL WOMEN'S TOURNAMENT

Hosted by The Wanderers Club, Wellington, Florida

The historical Women's International Four-Ball Championship is being held this week at the premiere golf and polo club in Wellington, Florida. The Wanderers Club is hosting 48 pairs from around the world. Some of the top women amateurs will compete for the coveted Women's International Four-Ball Championship title.
The format of the championship is 36 holes of four-ball stroke play, commonly known as a two-person, best-ball.  
Defending champions, Tara Connelly of Palm Beach Gardens, and Meghan Stasi of Oakland Park, have once again teamed up for the Championship.
And they have started where they left off this year by posting the first day's best score of 67.
Stasi is a four-time US Women’s Mid-Amateur champion and a member of the victorious 2008 US Curtis Cup team at St Andrews.

Meghan, pictured right by Cal Carson Golf Agency, also has had great success at the International Four-Ball, winning three times, first in 2009 with Dawn Woodard, then in 2010 with Donna Mummert, and last year with current partner Tara Connelly. 
Stasi's 2014 season is off to a great start, winning the 58th Harder Hall Invitational in January and placing in the top 10 at the Dixie Women's Amateur.
Another extremely notable player to watch is Ellen Port of St. Louis, Missouri. Port’s resume is quite extensive, including four US Women’s Mid-Amateur titles and two US Women’s Senior Amateur titles. 
Also, Port is the captain of the 2014 USA Curtis Cup team. The 38th match against Great Britain and Ireland - the holders - will be conducted in Port's hometown at St. Louis Country Club, June 6-8.
Port herself was a member of the 1994 and 1996 USA Curtis Cup teams. She won the 1995, 1996, 2000 and 2011 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateurs along with the 2012 and 2013 USGA Senior Women's Amateur.  
In addition to her USGA titles, Port holds the record for most Missouri Women's Amateur champion titles, winning the championship eight times, and she is also a 12-time St. Louis Metropolitan champion. Port was also recently named Global Golf Post's Women's Amateur Player of the Year.

2014 FIRST-DAY RESULTS

Championship Division

Tara Connelly / Meghan Stasi - 67

Mary Jane Hiestand / Diane Lang - 69

Gale Brudner / Ellen Oswald - 70

Sherry Herman / Debbie Adams - 70

Marie Arnoux / Ellen Port - 71

Laura Carson / Maureen Sheehan - 73

Charlotte Daughan / Sarah Matin - 74

Elizabeth Breza / Teri deLuis - 74

Gigi Higgins / Lin McMillan - 74

Ivy Steinberg / Janice Wilson - 74

Jewell Malick / Anna Schultz - 74

Lisa Cook / Helene Thoman - 74

Mary Janiga / Alexa Pano - 75

Therese Quinn / Alison Reifers - 75

Linda Dillon / Susan Keane - 76

 Patsy Ehret / Terri Wirth - 76

Taffy Brower / Kathleen Colliflower - 76

Diane Carter / Jenny Ceppi - 77

Evelyn Blackmon / Angie Coleman - 78

Tama Caldabaugh / Susan West - 78

Lauren Collins / Maria Marino - 81

Nancy Beck / Leslie Henry - 84

Natalie McNicholas / Kathy West - 85

Middle Division

Christine Martin / Beth Sholar - 72

Laura Monea / Jennifer Polich - 72

Patty Lang / Sue McMurdy - 73

Debbie Dove / Kathryn Maloney - 76

Karen Hale / Karen Varner - 76

Kathy Baker / Rebecca Montgelas - 76

Leann Cesario / Debra Wangrud - 77

Elizabeth Brumback / Lynn Fullmer - 78

Nicola de Stwolinska / Mary Kozak - 78

Patricia Hughes-Gelardi / Kibbe Reilly - 78

Joyce Martin / Meredith Wolf - 82

Danielle Doane / Marianne Doane - 83

Diane Armet / Barbara Magie - 83

Jan DeMarco / Sonja Stutchfield - 86

Forward Division

Ann Candido / Marsha Funk - 73

Eileen Burke / Lanette Gustafson - 77

Victoria Goitz / Gilda Perez - 78

Donna Carruth / JoEllen Youngblud - 79

Pamela Cooling / Carolyn Hudson - 79

Kay Howard / Martha Richards - 81

Dannae Karins / Lois Wilhelm - 84

Carole Browne / Jeri Ewing - 85

Lori Cameron / Patricia Fox - 86
Kimberly Byle / Chris Daywalt - 87

Karen Long / Sheila Nuccilli - 88