The annual Butler Rotary Golf Outing and Dinner takes place May 20 at Oakview Golf Club in Slippery Rock.

A box lunch will be available at noon. Golf will commence with a shotgun start at 1 p.m., followed by a 5:30 p.m. social hour and a 6:30 p.m. dinner.

The format is a four-person team scramble. There are no restrictions and no handicapping will be used.

Cost is $100 per golfer, the fee also covering lunch, cart, dinner and prizes. For non-golfers, the dinner is $20.

Awarding of golf prizes and a live auction will follow the dinner. First-prize is golf for four at Olde Stonewall, second prize is golf for four at Oakview and third prize is golf for four at St. Jude.

Entry deadline is Tuesday. Checks may be made payable to Butler Rotary Club and should be mailed to P.O. Box 1081, Butler, Pa., 16003-1081.

The Slippery Rock Volunteer Fire Company and Rescue Team will hold its Second Annual Golf Scramble June 18 at Shamrock Golf Course in Slippery Rock.Sign-in time is from 10 to 11 a.m., followed by a shotgun start.Entry fee is $50 per person or $200 per foursome. Entry deadline is June 13.Registration includes 18 holes of golf, cart, snacks, refreshments and a buffet meal at end of scramble.Skill prizes will be given out along with prizes for the first and second place teams.Registration forms are available at Shamrock Golf Course and the Slippery Rock Fire Hall.For more details, call 724-458-6392 or 724-794-3817.

A field of 31 pros and 26 amateurs will compete for four qualifying spots at the USGA Open Local Qualifying Round Thursday at Quicksilver Golf Club.Among the entries are previous Local Qualifier pros John Aber, Steve Antenucci, Jim Cichra, Bob Ford, Aaron Gizzi, John Mazza, Larry Milosh, Rick Stimmel and Roy Vuchinich, along with amateurs Trent Karlik and Sean Knapp.Local qualifiers advance to open sectionals June 6-7, with most area players scheduled for Rockville, Md., or Columbus, Ohio. The sectional in Western Pennsylvania was discontinued due to low turnouts.

The Greg Fleming Memorial Spring-Up Golf Tournament will be held at 9:30 a.m. May 15 at Lake Arthur Country Club.The four-man scramble costs $75 per player and includes breakfast, lunch and dinner.Call Rick McKivigan at 724-283-8473 or Glenn Fleming at 412-629-3209 for details.

The Slippery Rock High School Quarterback Association will hold its eighth annual golf outing May 21 at Lake Arthur Country Club.The four-person scramble awards prize money to the top three teams and there is a $5,000 hole-in-one prize.Cost is $5 per player or $200 per team. Proceeds benefit the Slippery Rock High School football program.Call Lori at 724-794-1505 for details.

Sewickley native Carol Semple Thompson has been named recipient of the 2005 PGA First Lady of Golf Award.She will be honored May 25 in a 7 p.m. ceremony at St. Vincent College in Latrobe. The ceremony is in conjunction with the 66th Senior PGA Championship May 23-29 at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier.Thompson, 56, is a veteran of 99 United States Golf Association championships and owns seven national titles. Only Bobby Jones, JoAnne Gunderson Carner, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods have won more.

Sean Knapp, pro at St. Jude Golf Club in Chicora, and Nathan Smith shot a 71-76-147 to win the Western Pennsylvania Golf Association's Fred Brand Foursomes event in a playoff Thursday at Longue Vue.The Knapp-Smith tandem defeated Ray Seemiller and Stephen Foster, who also carded a 147.