By the looks of this year’s schedule, Hawaii golf hopes to keep expanding its reach across the major islands while celebrating a host of impressive anniversaries for its legendary tournaments.

The U.S. Golf Association wants to expand to new age groups.

The inaugural U.S. Senior Women’s Open will be played in July at Chicago Golf Club, founded in 1893 and one of the five original clubs that got together to form the USGA.

The tournament comes 38 years after the debut of the men’s 50-older event and gives the USGA 14 national championships.

“This is a great time for women’s golf, for any age group,” says Hawaii’s Patty Schremmer, who played on the LPGA Tour and got her amateur status back after her daughters got older. “I feel fortunate that now, as a 50-ish-year-old, I can get back out there.

“I cannot think of another sport or organization that allows an athlete the stage to continue competing over that span of time.”

Schremmer reached the semifinals of last year’s Senior Women’s Amateur and the 2016 Women’s Mid-Amateur (25-older). She has exemptions into both this year. Her goal is to qualify for the first Senior Open, played where she grew up and was 1986 State Amateur Champion.

The 2019 Senior Women’s Open is at Pine Needles in North Carolina — 5 miles from where Hawaii Sports and Golf Hall of Famer Lenore Muraoka Rittenhouse lives. The Roosevelt grad turned 62 last month.

Back home, the Hawaii State Golf Association is looking to follow up its new Kauai and Maui amateur tournaments with a stop on the island of Hawaii, while many of our longest-running events head into old age with no hint of retirement.

This month’s 20th Sony Open in Hawaii was the 53rd year the PGA Tour played at Waialae Country Club. Only Colonial, which first held a tour event in 1946, and Pebble Beach, which debuted a year later, have hosted longer.

This year is also the 55th anniversary of the Hawaii State Amateur and the Mid-Pacific Open’s 60th year. It will be celebrated a week after the LPGA Lotte Championship in April. The 67th Francis Brown Four Ball is in May, with the 68th Jennie K. Wilson Invitational later that month.

The summer features the 110th Manoa Cup, followed by the 62nd Waialae Women’s Invitational, 55th Oahu Country Club Men’s Invitational and 41st Pua Melia at Olomana.

The impressive anniversaries come full circle in November when the Amateur team tries to get the Gov. John Burns Challenge Cup back from the Pros in their 46th team competition. The next week, those amateurs take each other on for Sony’s precious amateur exemption.