Ashley Grier of Hagerstown was named on Middle Atlantic PGA Women’s Player of the Year, MAPGA announced Friday.
Grier, a PGA assistant professional at Yingling’s Golf Center in Hagerstown, had a dominant season, finishing second among women’s professionals in five events: the MAPGA Section Professional Championship, the Rolex MAPGA Players Cup, the MAPGA Stroke Play Championship No. 2, the MAPGA Pro-Scratch and the Northern Chapter Championship.
Grier won the MPSSAA girls state title as a senior at Smithsburg in 2000. She graduated from the University of Central Florida, where she played on the women’s golf team. She began her professional career competing on the Future’s Tour (now the Symetra Tour) for over five years.
In 2014, Grier became a member of the PGA and began her career in teaching, while continuing to compete at a very high level. She has competed in five major championships (four KPMG Women’s PGA Championships and one US Women’s Open), while earning honors as the 2020 Rolex Women’s PGA Professional Player of the Year and 2021 Philadelphia PGA Assistant Player of the Year .
Grier also played for two victorious U.S. Women’s PGA Cup teams, earned a spot on the 2024 Corebridge Finance team and competed in the Women’s PGA Championship at Sahalee Country Club in Sammamish, Washington.
Grier was inducted into the Washington County Sports Hall of Fame in 2019 and the Washington County Golf Hall of Fame in 2021.
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