About Danielle Downey
Danielle Downey was a great high school golfer on the Boys Golf Team at Spencerport High School, and went on to be an ALL-SEC performer at Auburn University. After turning professional she spent time on both the Futures tour (now the LPGA owned Symetra Tour) and the LPGA achieving a great deal of success and living her dream.
Danielle was a member at Brook-Lea Country Club and from an early age, members would just stop and watch her hit balls on the range. We all saw the potential and then the greatness. She was always willing to play with the other members regardless of ability and you could not help but smile and laugh when you were with her, on or off the course.
Despite tragically losing our friend in 2014, her memory lives on and can be seen throughout the Danielle Downey Golf Experience events.
A Tribute to Danielle
Despite the fact that Danielle Downey was a premier local athlete who lived the dream of playing golf on the LPGA tour, she never lost sight of her roots. Her work in the community has made it possible for many local high school players to have lived a dream of meeting and playing with an LPGA professional since 2007! Many of the relationships between the LPGA Epson Tour players and our local high school athletes have inspired them to work harder at both their golf and academic careers. Several of these young ladies have continued on to play college golf. Many have served as interns in our tournament. It is a tribute to her that our tournament has kept Women’s Professional Golf in Rochester, and all of the money raised for charity and inspiring moments for those young ladies in the local community have taken place.
Danielle Downey Scholarship Fund
Through the generosity of family and friends a scholarship fund was established in the memory of Danielle. We are happy to announce that we granted our first scholarship to a local high school senior in 2014 and have continued to do so each year since. The Danielle Downey Scholarship Fund is now funded by the DDCUC and we now grant a $2,500 scholarship to a high school senior and a matching grant to a local charity of the winner’s choice annually.