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


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Caroline Haase-Hegg

Former Augusta University Women's Head Golf Coach
Played Golf at Purdue University

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Nanci Bowen

LPGA Tour (1991-2005); 4 LPGA wins including "The Nabisco Dinah Shore" in 1995.
Played at the University of Georgia.

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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.

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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

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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


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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

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Jackie Gallagher-Smith

Jupiter, FL
College: LSU
LPGA Legend. LPGA and LPGA Legends Tours competitor

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Kelley Hester

Macon, Ga
College: The University of Georgia - University of Arkansas
Head Women's Golf Coach at Clemson University

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Michelle McGann

North Palm Beach, FL
LPGA Legend. 7 LPGA Tour wins, LPGA Legends Tour competitor

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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

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Donna Andrews

College: UNC-Chapel Hill
6 Wins on the LPGA Tour
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame Member

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Laura Diaz

2 Wins on the LPGA Tour
4 Solheim Cup Teams (2002, 2003, 2005, 2007)

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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

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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