Shelly Stouffer, Vancouver Island’s Top Senior Women’s Golfer Honoured
COURTESY MOUNT BRENTON RELEASE
MOUNT BRENTON, B.C. (October 22, 2024) - Mount Brenton Golf Club’s Board of Directors is pleased to announce that Shelly Stouffer has been awarded its first non-member honorary membership.
Stouffer, a four-time Mount Brenton Women’s Amateur champion, won Canada’s 2024 Mid-Amateur championship for women 25 and above. She is currently ranked 796th in the WAGR, 16th in the Senior Women’s ranking, and third in Canadian Senior Women, behind Terrill Samuel and Judith Kyrinis.
The board chose to follow the criteria set by The New Golf Club at St Andrews to bestow this membership on Stouffer.
St Andrews History, Honorary Members: “Honorary Membership is an honour which the Club does not bestow lightly. Restricted to 'distinguished strangers,' The New Golf Club has had only five Honorary Members in over a century of its existence - and never more than one at a time.”
When told of the board’s decision, Stouffer said, “I am happy to be given an honorary membership at Mt. Brenton GC. It is a fun course, and I look forward to playing there more often. Whenever I have played there, it has always been in great shape. I thank the Board of Directors for the honorary membership and look forward to meeting more members.”
The honorary membership is Stouffer’s first. Stouffer’s two-round total of 144 in stroke play won her medalist honours at the recent USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship in Seattle, earning her the top seed for the six-round match-play portion of the championship. She lost the final 3&2 to Australia’s Nadene Gole. The second-place finish gains her entry to the 2025 US LPGA Senior Championship.
Stouffer lives in Nanoose Bay and competes in tournaments throughout Canada and the US. Next year, she will compete in Ireland and England at both those countries’ senior amateur women’s championships, among other events in 2025.
Stouffer, who currently plays out of and has a working relationship with Morningstar Golf Course in Parksville, visited MBGC recently. She was impressed with the course and agreed to develop a relationship with our club. The board and Shelly are working on opportunities for our members to meet and golf with her next season.
The board congratulates club member Chris Sherlock for suggesting Stouffer become an honorary member.
In 1975, Reg de L’Harwood was awarded the only other honorary membership for his work on the committee that brought life to the club.
To learn more about Mount Brenton Golf Club please click HERE.
Click here to learn more about Shelly on and off the course.
Click here for the story on her induction into the PNGA Hall of Fame.
Click here for the 2024 Canadian Mid-Amateur story.