Far Hills, N.J. (Feb. 24) – Roberta Bolduc of Longmeadow, Mass., has been selected by the United States Golf Association as the captain of the USA Team for the 2010 Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, to be played this October in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
“I am extremely honored to have the opportunity to captain the Women’s World Amateur Team for the USA and I look forward to a great experience with three of our finest women amateurs,” Bolduc said. “Just as we have seen with the Olympics, it is amazing to see athletes of all cultures come together in friendship and good will to share the love of a sport. The World Amateur Team Championship highlights the appeal of golf throughout the world.”
Bolduc was a member of the USGA Women’s Committee from 1997-2008 and served as its chairman in 2007 and 2008. She was chairman of the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship Committee in 2003 and 2004 and served on the USGA Handicap and Women’s Handicap Procedure committees. She served as chairman of the 1995 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at Longmeadow Country Club, where she is a former member of the board of governors and where she served as the club’s first female president, from 1998-2001. She has served on the Women’s Trans-National Golf Association Executive Committee and the board of directors of the Women’s Golf Association of Massachusetts (WGAM) and is a past president of the Women’s Eastern Golf Association.
She played in the inaugural U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in 1987 and has played in nine USGA Senior Women’s Amateurs. In addition, she was the 1999 and 2000 WGAM Senior champion and the 1995 Women’s Eastern Senior champion.
Bolduc and her husband, Bob, have one daughter, Kathleen, and three grandchildren. In addition to her numerous golf activities, she serves on the board of trustees for Bay Path College and the Baystate Health Foundation, and is a founding director of the Ronald McDonald House of Springfield (Mass.). She is a 1965 graduate of Marymount College of Kansas.
The Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, for the Espirito Santo Trophy, will be played Oct. 20-23 at Buenos Aires and Olivos Golf Clubs.
The World Amateur Team Championships began in 1958, with the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship starting in 1964. The International Golf Federation (IGF) was founded in 1958 to encourage the international development of golf through friendship and sportsmanship. Today, the IGF consists of more than 120 national governing bodies of golf and is recognized as the international federation for golf for the International Olympic Committee. As one of its main functions, the IGF conducts the World Amateur Team Championships for women and men on a biennial basis.
The World Amateur Team Championships were last played in 2008 in Australia. Scotland claimed the men’s title and Sweden won the women’s championship.
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