Vinny Giles, Lanny Wadkins, Bobby Wadkins, Curtis Strange and Robert Wrenn played a round to raise money for the Virginia State Golf Association Foundation’s junior golf programs.

Vinny Giles, who made a living as a sports representative, couldn’t have given the Virginia Legends of Golf fundraiser today and tomorrow at Independence Golf Club a better boost than with his recent victory in the U.S. Senior Amateur. Giles, 66, will tee it up at Independence, Virginia’s home for golf, along with professionals Lanny and Bobby Wadkins, Curtis Strange and Robert Wrenn in a Skins Game exhibition tomorrow at 1 p.m. The event will raise money for the Virginia State Golf Association Foundation’s junior golf program.

The Virginia Tech men’s golf team comes to town this weekend to prepare for the VCU Shootout tournament at Hermitage Country Club. The first thing the players want to see isn’t the course. They want to see the hardware their coach, Jay Hardwick, picked up yesterday at the Senior State Open of Virginia. Hardwick, the first-round leader, birdied the 15th and 16th holes at the Country Club of Virginia’s Westhampton Course, then sank a four-foot par putt on the last hole to win by a stroke over two other professionals, defending champion Jon Corliss and Dean Sumner.

Virginia Tech golf coach Jay Hardwick has a shoulder healed from surgery and the first-round lead in the Senior Open of Virginia. Hardwick, 60, posted a 1-under-par 69 yesterday at the Country Club of Virginia’s Westhampton course. He leads by a stroke over defending champion Jon Corliss of Virginia Beach, Robert Wrenn of Richmond and low amateur Bobby Bleiler of Suffolk. Three more amateurs—CCV member Mike Ligon, Tim Kelley of Ashland and Robert Morris of Great Falls—are two back after 1-over 71s.

Here’s hoping the weather is a lot better than it was a year ago for the Senior State Open of Virginia. The fourth edition of the 36-hole tournament unfolds tomorrow and Friday at the Country Club of Virginia’s Westhampton Course. Rain plagued the event last year, but it didn’t keep Jon Corliss, PGA teaching professional at Heron Ridge Golf Club in Virginia Beach, from shooting a 5-under-par 65 the second day and taking home the Harry W. Easterly Jr. winner’s trophy.

Mike McDonald (Williamsburg) won the 62nd Virginia State Golf Association Senior Amateur with an 8-foot birdie putt at No. 18 yesterday at Princess Anne Country Club.. He posted a 1-up victory over fellow 58-year-old Greg Thomas (Virginia Beach).McDonald won his first VSGA victory. The No. 21 seeded McDonald bested three of the top five seeds in match play, including the third-seeded Thomas in the deciding match.

Past champions Vinny Giles and Stan Fischer survived two matches each in the loaded upper bracket yesterday and advanced to the quarterfinals of the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Men’s Championship at Princess Anne Country Club in Virginia Beach. The two Richmonders, both members at Kinloch Golf Club, face each other this morning. Giles, a seven-time State Amateur champion and two-time Senior Amateur winner, eliminated six-time Senior champion Moss Beecroft of Newport News in the first round and sent defending champion Charles Green III of Tazewell packing in the second.

Four players shared medalist honors in the Virginia State Golf Association Senior Men’s Championship at Princess Anne Country Club in Virginia Beach. The 36-hole, on-site qualifying determined the 32 players who advanced to match play, which begins today. No player finished with a subpar score on the par-70 course that measures 5,968 yards.

Boodie McGurn put an end to her five-year victory drought in Virginia State Golf Association tournaments. McGurn, a Country Club of Virginia member, captured her second VSGA Senior Women’s Amateur championship with a 2 and 1 victory over Linda DiVall of Alexandria yesterday at The Homestead Resort’s Old Course. McGurn’s last VSGA victory was in this tournament in 2004. She won the women’s State Amateur in 2003.

Independence Golf Club won’t take long to sort out who belongs at this weekend’s SunTrust State Open of Virginia. The course opens with a stretch of three par-4 holes, all longer than 430 yards and none of which yielded an average score of par in last year’s tournament. The next few holes provide more challenges, until the course relents.

DANVILLE—Lauren Greenlief has earned the opportunity to pull off a rare double in state women’s golf. Greenlief, an 18-year-old from Oakton, won two matches yesterday in the Virginia State Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship at Danville Golf Club and advanced to today’s final match. Greenlief, the reigning State Women’s Stroke Play champion, meets tournament medalist Whitney Neuhauser, 21, of Barboursville in today’s scheduled 18-hole final.

Former VSGA Junior Girls champion Hunter Ross and reigning Richmond Women’s Golf Association champion Lyberty Anderson paced the local contingent of players who qualified for match play in the State Women’s Amateur at Danville Country Club. Whitney Neuhauser of Barboursville fired a 3-under-par 69 yesterday to earn medalist honors and the No. 1 seed for match play that begins today. Ross, a Collegiate graduate and recent transfer to Wake Forest University, carded 74. Anderson, 13, shot 76.

Brinson Paolini rallied from five holes down with nine holes to play to earn a 2-up victory over Lanto Griffin of Blacksburg in yesterday’s 36-hole Virginia State Golf Association amateur championship title match at Cedar Point Country Club. Before he could deal with Griffin, Paolini had to conquer another formidable opponent: fatigue.

ROANOKE—Mikey Moyers, an 18-year-old from Stanardsville, won the VSGA Junior Match Play Championship by defeating 17-year-old Jack Adkins of Martinsville 3 and 2 in the title match. It was the third-consecutive title for Moyers, who will golf at Virginia Tech next year. The day began with Adkins defeating Dylan Jensen of Ridgeway in 19 holes, and Moyers defeating Zack Hall of Burgess 2 up in the semifinals.

The Virginia State Golf Association’s women’s stroke play championship has taken on a decidedly Cavalier attitude. Lauren Greenlief of Oakton, an 18-year-old who recently completed her first year at the University of Virginia, shot 3-under-par 68 yesterday and will enter today’s final round at Meadowbrook Country Club with a two-shot lead over former U.Va. standout Kristen Simpson.