Meaningful Mentoring
Rosie Jones personally recruits all the Program's mentors.
LPGA Legends, & Players, professional
instructors and college coaches
interact with Junior competitors throughout
the High School Invitational Tournament weekend.
LPGA Legends as Mentors engage with as
many players as possible at Moss Creek Golf
Club's private facilities. Professionals and
players talk on the practice range, at the first
tee, during dinner, and at the scoring tents
and demo-clinic prior to final round.
Keynote speakers have included Hollis Stacy,
Michelle McGann and Leta Lindley. Clemson
Women's Golf Coach Kelley Hester will
headline the 2024 HSI Tournament banquet.
Scholarship Fund recipients are mentored by
accomplished LPGA pros & college coaches
located throughout South Carolina.
Rosie Jones Talks About Mentoring
Grant Program Mentors
Caroline Haase-Hegg
Former Augusta University Women's Head Golf Coach
Played Golf at Purdue University
Nanci Bowen
LPGA Tour (1991-2005); 4 LPGA wins including "The Nabisco Dinah Shore" in 1995.
Played at the University of Georgia.
Kristi Coggins
Former Head Women's Golf Coach at University of South Carolina; 14 Years.
Inducted into USC Athletics Hall of Fame in 2019.
Board Member WSCGA Vicki Hillen Junior Golf Foundation.
Betty Palmer
Former Head Women's Golf Coach at University of Alabama for 17 Years.
Board Member of the WSCGA and WSCGA Vicki Hillen Junior Golf Foundation
Rosie Jones
LPGA Tour Player (1982-2005); 13 LPGA Wins, Played 7 Solheim Cups, 2011 Solheim Cup Captain.
Member of The Ohio State University Hall of Fame.
Legends Tour winner
High School Invitational Mentors
Rosie Jones
Moss Creek, Hilton Head, SC
College: The Ohio State University
LPGA Legend. 13 LPGA Tour wins, 8 LPGA Legends Tour wins, Solheim Cup Team member and Captain
Jackie Gallagher-Smith
Jupiter, FL
College: LSU
LPGA Legend. LPGA and LPGA Legends Tours competitor
Kelley Hester
Macon, Ga
College: The University of Georgia - University of Arkansas
Head Women's Golf Coach at Clemson University
Michelle McGann
North Palm Beach, FL
LPGA Legend. 7 LPGA Tour wins, LPGA Legends Tour competitor
Leta Lindley
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
College: University of Arizona
LPGA Legend. 1 LPGA Tour win, LPGA Legends Tour competitor
2024 US Senior Women's Open Champion
Donna Andrews
College: UNC-Chapel Hill
6 Wins on the LPGA Tour
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Member
Laura Diaz
2 Wins on the LPGA Tour
4 Solheim Cup Teams (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007)
Yvonne Cox-Holmes
Played on the Futures tour from 2001-2005
Competed in the 2004 US Women's Open
2024 SC Women's Open Senior Division Champion
Clarissa Childs
Columbia, SC
LPGA & Symetra Tours, 1997-2008
Assistant Coach for the University of South Carolina women's golf team from 1997-2002
Executive Director of the WSCGA