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MARNIE MCGUIRE
Amateur career highlights:
1986 British Ladies Amateur Champion (at the time youngest winner aged 17)
1990 Queen Sirikit Cup Individual Champion
1990 Oklahoma State University: First team All-American
(top 15 players in the US)
Winner of three collegiate tournaments
Marnie turned professional and joined the Japanese Ladies Professional Golf Association, JLPGA, in 1992 aged 22.
Japanese career highlights:
1994 Nasuogawa Ladies Open Champion
1995 Mitsukoshi Cup Champion
Goyokensetsu Ladies Open Champion
1996 Daikin Orchid Ladies Champion
Suntory Open Ladies Champion
1998 Winning the Australian Open was a career highlight. Marnie lead the tournament from start to finish, repeating her Suntory Open 1996 start to finish win.
1995 Marnie was named winner of the New Zealand Halberg Sportswoman of the Year, another moment in her career to be cherished in terms of writing herself into the record books of New Zealand sport.
JANIS JEFFERS
Our farming background and life in the rural community gave me the opportunity to be involved in a range of voluntary roles during our children’s school years.
I was employed by Sport Waikato for 25 years coordinating and facilitating Sport and Recreation programmes and Managing Events within the Waikato District. I am now retired (sort of) and loving finally having time to travel around our beautiful country on roadies, playing golf and generally enjoy time spent with family and friends.
My Golf journey began as an invited guest to attend one of Marnie’s first Bootcamps in Te Awamutu. I was totally out of my comfort zone as an absolute novice.
The rest is history as Golf became a huge part of my life from that week on. It led me to managing NZ Womens Trans Tasman Teams along with Waikato Interprovincial Women and Junior Girls Teams. I thoroughly enjoyed being involved with so many talented and focused young women. More recently I am honoured to have become a member of the Manawatu – Whanganui Eagles Golfing Society.
Marnie and I became great friends and work colleagues due to our various roles at Sport Waikato and Waikato Golf. We initiated a number of very successful beginner golf programmes for Women and Children throughout the greater Waikato Region over a number of years. We were also involved with NZ High Performance Golf, Marnie as an exceptional Coach and myself as a Women’s Team Manager.
We both share a passion for encouraging all ages and stages to learn how to play and most importantly enjoy the Sport of Golf.
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