Ede Rice

Rice’s record of volunteerism extends from the local club level all the way to the national level: she has chaired numerous committees including the Golf Committees at both Edina and Woodhill Country Clubs; she continues to participate as a tournament rules volunteer for the MWGA, and is an active director of the MGA; she remains a passionate advocate for the caddie scholars at the University of Minnesota Chapter House of the Western Golf Association’s Evans Scholars Foundation, where she was elected as a WGA director in 1995, and became the first woman elected to the WGA Board of Governors in 2010; for a span of five years (2006-2011), Rice served on the USGA’s Women’s Committee, and she currently serves on the USGA Regional Affairs Committee.  

As a qualified rules official at the national level, Rice has officiated at several USGA national championships, including the men’s and women’s U.S. Opens. Since 2006, Rice has served as official in charge for sectional qualifiers for the U.S. Women’s Amateur and U.S. Women’s Opens. She served as general chair of the USGA Women’s State Team Championship in 2001 when it visited Woodhill CC, and she later served as Minnesota’s team captain at the 2003 USGA Women’s State Team Championship.  

As a long-time competitive golfer, Rice has won a dozen club championships at the Edina and Woodhill Country Clubs. In 1994, she qualified for the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur. In 2006, Rice won the Minnesota Women’s Four-Ball and Senior Four-Ball championships. She also made it to the first round of match play at the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur that year, and, by the end of the golf season, she had won the MGA’s Senior Women’s Player of the Year honor.