Colorado Golf Hall of Famer Kim Eaton has long been a force with which to be reckoned on the golf course in both Colorado and Arizona, and on Thursday she reaped the most recent recognition of her accomplishments.
Last fall, Eaton was named the CWGA’s Senior Player of the Year for the seventh time in eight years. Then on Thursday in Phoenix, she received the Arizona Women’s Golf Association Senior Player of the Year award for the fifth time in seven years.
Oh, and by the way, Eaton has earned CWGA overall Player of the Year honors a record four times, and she landed the same award from the AWGA in 2013. She would have received that AWGA honor again for 2016 but the AWGA no longer allows one player to win both awards.
In Colorado last year, Eaton won her third CWGA Senior Match Play. In the Grand Canyon State, the former Greeley resident who now calls Arizona home won the open-age State Amateur Stroke Play and the State Amateur Seniors Championship.
On a larger stage, Eaton made it to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur for the fourth time and was subsequently named to Global Golf Post’s all-women’s senior amateur first team, meaning he was one of the top 11 competitors in that classification worldwide.
