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WSNGA team returns Silver Cup to Former Rebel Montgomery takes
South home Nevada Open and $30k

With their 21.5-12.5 victory in 2020 at the prestigious Taylor Montgomery, a former UNLV standout, shot rounds
Silver Cup matches, the Women’s Southern Nevada Golf of 62-68-69 and finished 17-under par to win the Nevada
Association has now won two of the last three annual Open played at the CasaBlanca and Palms golf clubs in
events with their counterparts from the Women’s Northern November and collect the $31,350 first-place check. The
Nevada Golf Association. The event was played at the Pete event was organized and sponsored by Mesquite Gaming
Dye-designed Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort and has become and featured a total purse of $150,000.
one of the most cherished traditions in Nevada golf. “I am
just so proud of the team and they all pulled together,” said Montgomery, who is well within reach of earning a spot on
South co-captain Laura Smith, a Paiute course member. the 2021-22 PGA Tour if he continues his strong play on the
“They just kept fighting and ground it out.” Korn Ferry Tour, was sailing along in the second round with
a 7-shot lead at one point, but he opened the final round
Fellow co-captain and Paiute course member Robbin only up by one. “It was like riding a roller coaster out there,
Sanchez felt the emotion of the event and appreciated the and that’s a perfect way to describe it,” said Montgomery.
opportunity to be part of a team. “It’s just amazing to be “It’s like on some shots, you feel good over them, and then
part of team experience like this because just like the Ryder sometimes you feel awful. It’s a funny game. It really is. I
Cup or the Solheim Cup in professional golf, we don’t get a tried not to think anything about the outcome of the tour-
lot of team things and this was phenomenal how the team nament or where I was at, but even so, I stopped hitting
pulled together,” Sanchez said. it as well as I was, plus a couple of putts that were drop-
ping before, stopped dropping. Then things tightened up,
Other South team members were Laura Smith, Christina but fortunately I would start playing well again and make
Brandt, Carrie Langevin, Connie Isler, Yoshie Masuda, a few birdies.”
Renee Rocco, Debbie Love, Brenda Knott, Regina Quintero,
Sherry Jackson, Rita Byorick, Juliet Hebert, Margie The Nevada Open attracts a strong field of aspiring PGA
Cashwell, Linda Reade, Kim Rose, Kim Bazzelle, Theresa Tour players from around the country and is noted as one of
Summers, Shana Pederson and Theresa Prospero. the top mini-tour tournaments available. “This was probably
one of the deepest fields we had in all of these years and we
The North leads the overall series 15-12 and will host the not only had great players from the Western United States,
event in 2021 at a course to be determined. but from all over the country,” said Christian Adderson, the
Nevada Open tournament director and CasaBlanca Resort
assistant general manager. “And Taylor Montgomery is
a true ‘Nevada’ Open champion because he is from Las
Vegas and played at UNLV. Also, he has played in the event
a few times as has his father, Monte. I think it is wonderful
to now include Taylor as a Nevada Open champion.”

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