Player Biography

COURTNEY ELLENBOGEN Birthdate: December 28, 1990 Birthplace: Blacksburg, Va. Age: 16 Home: Blacksburg, Va.
Player Notes: Participated in Blacksburg Country Club's junior golf program with head professional Steve Prater this is her first time qualifying out of three attempts she qualified at Keith Hills Country Club (145, T4) played in the 2005 U.S. Girls’ Junior played in the 2005 and 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur won the 2007 AJGA at Chateau Elan Lowest competitive score is 65, which she shot at the 2007 Scott Robertson Memorial she has two holes-in one one when she was about 11 in a local tournament from 121 yards with a 7-iron and one at sectional qualifying for the 2006 U.S. Women's Open from 180 yards with a 7-wood her uncle Mark Hawley, an avid golfer who plays at the Old North State Club in Uwharrie Point, N.C. will be her caddie besides golf, she enjoys piano which she has played for 11 years, working out and running when time allows and going to movies parents Janet and Bill brother Matt is 18 Won the 2006 Virginia State Junior Golf Championship her dad played professional football (retired from the New York Giants in 1981) her mother is retired professor at Virginia Tech will be a junior at Blacksburg High School where she has been on the straight-A honor roll for the past two years she plays on the boys' golf team at school because there are not enough girls to start a team says qualifying for the Open is her most memorable golf experience.