2024 Women’s Senior Player of the Year

The Rochester District Golf Association began its Women’s Senior Player of the Year Award in 2020 as a way to honor the year’s top female players – ages 50 and above – based on points earned from local, regional and national women’s senior tournaments throughout the season.

To be considered for the RDGA Women’s Senior Player of the Year award, golfers must play a minimum of 5 events on the published Points schedule with an additional requirement that 3 of those events must be RDGA events.

Winning the 2024 RDGA Women’s Senior Player of the Year Award was Jan LaVigne of Ravenwood Golf Club, who became the latest player to win both the Women’s AND the Senior Women’s Players of the Year in the same year – following Deb Wood of Hickory Ridge, who accomplished the same feat in 2022 and 2023.

In 2024, LaVigne enjoyed a career year, winning a whopping eight times in 50-and-over competitions, including the WRDGA Senior Championship, as well as the NYS Women’s Senior Amateur Four Ball Championship, along with her other tiles in the WRDGA District Championship and five titles in RDGA Two Person events. LaVigne finished 505 points ahead of Sodus’ Julie Hamm to win top Women’s Senior honors.