OK, ladies, circle June 8-9 on your golf calendars. Those are the dates for the 2009 Moore County Women's Amateur Championship.

The Women's Amateur is where it's at for female golfers in Moore County. Not only does the tournament decide an overall champion each spring, but also winners in more flights than Southwest Airlines provides.

No matter what level of the game you possess, you can be a winner in this event. The competition is good, but friendly (for the most part), but you'd better brush up on your rules book because odds are someone in your group will be an expert.

The championship will be held at Beacon Ridge Country Club in Seven Lakes, a delightful Gene Hamm design that hosted the event three years ago when Lisa Chandler won a rain-shortened event.

Patty Moore has dominated the championship for the past several years, winning a record five times in six appearances. Dianne Yelovich is the defending champion, out-dueling Moore in a classic confrontation at Southern Pines Golf Club a year ago.

The entry fee is $90 and this includes a continental breakfast on both days with an awards luncheon following play in the final round. Participants are also entitled to a practice round during the two weeks prior to the tournament for cart fees only.

Entry forms are available at area golf shops beginning in mid-April. For information, call Vi Schlup at 673-0554.

Jimmy V: The Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic, one of the nation's premier celebrity golf events, will include a special tribute for the late Kay Yow, N.C. State University women's basketball coach, as all volunteers will wear pink shirts to remember her life and efforts.

The tournament is scheduled Aug. 16 at the Lonnie Poole Golf Course on N.C. State's Centennial Campus.

Each year, hundreds of volunteers come together with celebrities and sponsors to support The V Foundation's efforts to raise money for cancer research. Over the years, Yow was a participant in many of the functions and activities surrounding the Foundation's and Classic's efforts.

"Coach Yow was an avid supporter of The V Foundation and the Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic," said Tournament Director Frank McCann. "By wearing pink, we want to honor Coach Yow as well as all who have struggled, or are presently struggling, with this monstrous disease. She meant so much to us and we are truly grateful for all that she did to support our efforts."

Yow lost her battle with breast cancer earlier this year after fighting the disease for more than two decades. While coaching, she worked to partner with The V Foundation to create The Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund.

Since the first Jimmy V Celebrity Golf Classic in 1993, the event has raised more than $14 million for cancer research. For more information about the classic, call (919) 319-0441 or log onto www.golfclassic.org.

Rice Triumphs: Mark Rice, of Seven Lakes, and Lewis Burgman, of Greensboro, went five holes in a sudden-death playoff before Rice won the fifth hole with a bogey in the drizzling rain to claim the Flight B title in the Harris Teeter Senior Tour event held at Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro.

Milt deReyna, of Hope Mills, shot 72 to win the championship flight, while Eric Ardery, of Durham, was runner-up with 74.

Randy Bunn, of Zebulon, won flight A with 74, beating out Wiley Barrett, of Southern Pines, by two strokes. Gene Greenawalt, of Carthage, and Gil Ro, of Pinehurst, tied for fourth with 78.

eGolf: Kevin Miller, of Selma, won the eGolf Amateur Tour's first major of the season, shooting a 74 at Forest Oaks Country Club in Greensboro. James Goin of Lawsonville was runner-up.