Jackie Little's Own Act Will Be Tough To Follow

"I would say this is the icing on the cake," said Little, whose phenomenal campaign in 2008 included winning the Royal Canadian Golf Association's national senior women's championship and senior women's team championship, the British Columbia senior women's amateur and mid-amateur titles, the BC Zone 6 senior women's and amateur women's championships and the Pacific Northwest Golf Association (PNGA) senior women's championship.

Little, 50, was also selected the 2008 PNGA senior women's Player of the Year.

In capturing the B.C. Senior Women's title with the lowest-ever aggregate 54-hole score, Jackie became the first player to win the senior women's title under par.

Already she has set her sights on claiming the U.S. senior women's championship for 2009. Last year she got off to a great start by becoming a medalist but came up short in match play competition.

"I'm probably focusing most of my attention as far as competing this year towards winning the U.S. Seniors -- trying to put everything in place so at that point I'm peaking," she recently told Alberni Valley News reporter Susan Quinn. "In the next couple of weeks I'll really start putting the practice rounds in place."

Like Canadian and World Golf Hall of Fame member Marlene Streit, Jackie Little stands barely a shadow taller than 5 feet and is renowned for having an exceptional short game.

"Most of your shots really are from 150 yards in," says Little, who will be working on her game at her home course, Hollies Executive course, a par-3 and par-4 course, "That's your meat and potatoes."

Little will defend her BC Senior Women's crown at Meadows Gardens Golf Course in Pitt Meadows June 15-17 and a week later head for Salmon Arm for the BC Women's Amateur and Mid-Amateur at Canoe Creek.

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In other BC women's golf news, Fort St. John's Kirby Dreher closed with a 2-under par 70 to finish a stroke off the lead but good enough to pace her Kent State Golden flashes to second place behind Auburn in the rain-shortened Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic in Athens, Georgia on Sunday. Dreher, now in her senior year, finished one stroke ahead of Auburn's Candace Schepperle, the No 1 rank collegiate golfer in the U.S. Scheduled for 54 holes, the tournament was shortened to just one round due to torrential rains.