Njsga's Carol Graybeal Selected To USGA Women's Commitee

Fairmount’s Carol Graybeal, a rules official and tournament administrator with the New Jersey State Golf Association, has been appointed to serve a one-year term on the 2015 USGA Women’s Committee.

Graybeal has previously served since 2009 on the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Committee that oversaw that championship this past September at Hollywood Golf Club in Deal.

In the past two years Graybeal has officiated at the U.S. Women’s Open at Sebonak in 2013, and the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Nassau in 2014.

Her initiatives helped bring about two new championships events to the NJSGA calendar, the Women’s Four-Ball in 2013 and the Women’s Mid-Amateur this past summer.

“I am very excited about this. I have met a number of the women currently on the committee. Having served as a referee for U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur Championship, and having officiated at Sebonak and Nassau, I have found the women on the committee to be very smart and very savvy. I hope I can fully bring some of their knowledge back to the New Jersey State Golf Association,” said Graybeal, who lives in Chatham.

She has also served the Women's MGA and the USGA in course rating. NJSGA Board of Trustees member Coleen Luker of Bella Vista who serves on the USGA Regional Affairs Committee understands why the USGA reached out to Graybeal.

“She runs the most organized golf tournaments you can imagine. I’ve never seen anyone run a better tournament than Carol Graybeal. She is just really very, very good at that,” Luker said.

Dot Paluck of Somerset Hills and Baltusrol recently stepped down at the end of her term as the chair of the USGA Women’s Committee.

“It never hurts to have someone like a Dot Paluck and a Brigid Shanley Lamb, both from New Jersey who were on the Women’s Committee for number of years as mentors. Although both of them are now off the Committee, I know they will be a great resource for me as I try to figure out how to be most productive,” Graybeal stated.

The USGA Women’s Committee will convene in New York City in February at which time Graybeal will learn her specific functions.

“The primary function of the women’s committee is to give guidance to the Executive Committee on women’s and girls’ perspectives of the game,” she said.