The determined Plourde reduced the lead to just one shot with seven holes to play, but Creech steadied herself down the stretch and capitalized on Plourde’s misfortunes to win by 11 shots on the steamy, sun-drenched day. Plourde played the 12th, 13th and 14th holes in eight over par, including a 6-over-par nine at the […]
Staci Creech
Teen golfer, defending champ tied for Maine Women’s Amateur lead
Tom and Barbara Wright were playing golf that day at the Boothbay Harbor Country Club, so they took their granddaughter, who was 5 at the time, with them and let her do a little chipping and putting. “I liked it and wanted to keep playing,” Newcastle native Plourde, 16, said Monday after firing a 4-under-par […]
Women’s Amateur: Staci Creech aiming to keep title at home
There was a lot of distance between Maine Women’s Amateur champion Staci Creech and her next closest competitor last year. There was also plenty of distance between the host course and her hometown. With the Women’s Maine State Golf Association-sanctioned tournament much closer to Creech’s home this year, the defending champion is hoping for similar […]
Warm welcome: Staci Creech finds success in first Maine golf season
SACO — The next big thing in Maine women’s golf has been tearing it up in Pennsylvania and North Carolina for more than 30 years. Our list of top homegrown female competitors both rolls off the tongue and ends abruptly. The hall of fame sister tandem of Martha White and Pennie Cummings and 1990s phenom Abby […]