Myers Re-Elected Chairman of USGA Women's Committee
January 26, 2004 Far Hills, N.J. - Jeanne Myers of Farmington Hills, Mich., has been elected to serve a second one-year term as chairman of the 19-member USGA Women's Committee for 2004.

In addition, Marcia Luigs of Carmel, Ind., will serve a second one-year term as vice chairman of the Women's Committee.

Retiring from the Women's Committee are Sue Ewart of Seal Beach, Calif., who had been a member of the committee since 1994, and Dorothy Forbes of Jamaica Plain, Mass., who had served on the committee since 1996.

The Women's Committee represents the USGA in all matters related to women's golf and its members are the leaders of women's amateur golf in the United States. The Committee conducts the USGA's championships for women, including the U.S. Women's Open, U.S. Women's Amateur, U.S. Girls' Junior, U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links, and U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur, as well as the Curtis Cup Match, when held in the United States. It also selects the players who represent the USA on the Curtis Cup and Women's World Amateur teams, and directs more than 300 volunteers on eight USGA women's committees.

Myers joined the Women's Committee in 1992 after many years on the Women's Handicap Procedure Committee, for which she served as chairman from 1993-98. She served as chairman of the U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship Committee in 1999 and 2000 and is currently on the Members Committee. She was also a member of the Women's Regional Affairs Committee in 1990 and 1991, and has served as a USGA Rules official at the past 12 U.S. Women's Opens.

Myers has been a member of the Golf Association of Michigan's Board of Governors since 1991 and is currently its vice president. She served as president of the Women's Golf District Association of Detroit in 1987-88. A graduate of Ursinus (Pa.) College, she has three grown children: Mary Ellen, Charles, and Deborah.

Luigs has been a member of the Women's Committee since 1990. She has served on several USGA committees, including the Green Section Committee (2000-2002), Women's Intercollegiate Relations Committee (1991-93), and the Girls' Junior Championship Committee (1985-90). She later served as chairman of the Girls' Junior committee from 1994-98.

She has been a member of the Women's Western Golf Association since 1986 and served as president of the Metro Indianapolis Association for two years. Luigs, who attended Hanover College, and her husband Joe are the parents of two grown children, Lisa and Amy.

Along with Myers and Luigs, 17 members were re-elected to serve a one-year term on the Women's Committee. They are: Roberta Bolduc of Longmeadow, Mass.; Christi Dickinson of Paradise Valley, Ariz.; Barbara Douglas of Phoenix, Ariz.; Cece Durbin of Winnetka, Ill.; Virginia Derby Grimes of Montgomery, Ala., and Carolyn Hooper of Hockessin, Del.

Also re-elected were: Pat Kaufman of Fort Washington, Md.; Martha Lang of Mandeville, La.; Linda Marsh of Jamestown, N.C.; Jean Miller of Birmingham, Ala.; Dot Paluck of Springfield, N.J.; Ann Probert of New Vernon, N.J.; Gail Rogers of Santa Cruz, Calif.; Peggy Runnette of Pittsburgh, Pa.; Laura Saf of Lincoln, Neb., Tinker Sanger of Hydes, Md.; and Gayle Smith of Nashville, Tenn.