Meet The 2009 USGA Senior Women's Amateur Quarterfinalists

Carolyn Creekmore of Dallas, Texas, was the 2004 Senior Women’s Amateur champion. She graduated from Arizona State University in 1974. Six-time member of the Texas team for the USGA Women’s State Team Championship, including 2009...A former professional, she regained her amateur status and has competed in a number of national championships. Her best finish in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur was as a quarterfinalist...Won 2009 Jones-Doherty Senior and the 2009 Texas Four-Ball Championship...Claimed 2008 Southern Seniors...Her hobbies are reading, riding horses and hanging out with her family...She was born on May 19, 1952.

Kim Easton of Greeley, Colo., is executive director of the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame. She’s from a large family and has two brothers and two sisters...Competing in her first Senior Women’s Amateur...Four-time member of the Colorado team for the USGA Women’s State Team Championship, including 2009...Has competed in a number of USGA championships, including the 1983 U.S. Women’s Open, where she tied for 58th...Advanced to round of 16 at 2008 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur...Four-time winner of Colorado State Women’s Stroke Play championship...Named Colorado’s Woman Amateur of the Year in 2005 and 2007...Born Aug. 3, 1959.

Sherry Herman of Farmingdale, N.J., is playing in her second Senior Women’s Amateur...Lost in second round last year at Tulsa (Okla.) Country Club...Married to Ben Herman and has two daughters, Jillian and Stacy...Graduated from the University of Georgia in 1980...A former professional, she regained her amateur status in 1992...Won the North & South Senior Women’s Amateur earlier this summer. Also won 2009 New Jersey Stroke-Play Championship and the New Jersey Match-Play Women’s Amateur Championship...Semifinalist at 1996 and 2001 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur...Born April 24, 1958.

Robin Puckett of Irvine, Calif., is a native of Australia and holds dual citizenship in that country and the United States...She is retired and is a former professional who regained her amateur status in 2003... As a professional, she won the LPGA Teaching and Club Professional Senior Championship four years in a row...In return to amateur golf in 2007, she was runner-up in this championship to Anna Schultz at Sunriver (Ore.) Resort's Meadows Course...Member of the 1970 Australian team for Women’s World Amateur Team Championship...Married to Bernard Puckett.  As a hobby, they are taking singing lessons...Born May 4, 1947.

Brenda Pictor of Marietta, Ga., is playing in her second Senior Women’s Amateur...Was first-round match-play loser in 2007 at Sunriver (Ore.) Resort...Qualified for match play in the U.S. Women’s Amateur seven times, the last in 1994...Recently qualified for 2009 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur...A 1979 graduate of Mississippi University for Women...Married to Brad Pictor and they have two sons, Zac, 21, and Eric, 19...Sells commercial real estate...Pictor won the Georgia Senior Women’s Amateur in 2007...Claimed 1980 Mississippi Women’s Amateur and 1994 Georgia Women’s Amateur...Lowest competitive score of 59 was shot at Sunset Hills Country Club in Carrollton, Ga., in a couples’ tournament in June of this year...Born Aug. 19, 1955.

Noreen Mohler of Bethlehem, Pa., was a quarterfinalist in the 2007 Senior Women’s Amatuer and a semifinalist in the 2008 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur...Semifinalist in 1975 U.S. Women's Amateur, losing to eventual champion Beth Daniel. Named to 1978 USA Curtis Cup team and will captain 2010 Curtis Cup team...Graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 1975...Owns Marblehead Grille and Chowder House, a restaurant, with her husband Jeffrey Mohler. He has two children from a previous marriage: Ashley and Jeremy, and they are both parents to Brendan...Qualified for 2009 U.S. Women's Amateur and was oldest in field...Gave up golf for 20 years to raise a family and work in the restaurant business...Began competing again in 2006... A former professional, she regained her amateur status in 1989...Won the 2008 Pennsylvania Senior Women’s Amateur...Born Oct. 18, 1953.

Pat Cornett of Mill Valley, Calif., is a hematologist-oncologist in Northern California...With husband Mike Iker, they have two daughters, Theresa, 17, and Annemarie, 19....Graduated from Stanford in 1976...Was a well-known amateur in the 1970s and ‘80s and was a member of the 1978 and 1980 USA Curtis Cup teams...Considers playing in two Curtis Cups as her greatest honor in golf...Won 1992 Women’s Western Amateur...Three-time winner of California Women’s Amateur...Taking care of two daughters and her three dogs, a Saint Bernard, an Australian shepherd and a cocker spaniel, she says leaves her little time for other activities but she is highly dedicated to her work as the Associate Chairman for Education in the Department of Medicine at the University of California – San Francisco...Playing in fourth Senior Women’s Amateur...Born April 10, 1954.

Dana Harrity of North Hampton, N.H., attended three colleges; the University of Connecticut, Florida Atlantic University and the University of New Hampshire, and graduated in 1987...Playing in her first Senior Women’s Amateur...Has played in the U.S. Women’s Amateur seven times and the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur 11 times, finishing as high as the quarterfinals...Has a daughter, Maggie, and works as a golf shop buyer...Won the New Hampshire Women’s Amateur 14 times and finished second this year...Born Sept. 29, 1958.

Compiled by Rhonda Glenn, manager of communications for the USGA.