Charlaine Hirst is a native of Cape Town, South Africa, and is a 1995 Magna Cum Laude graduate
in History from Longwood College (now University). Charlaine was a three-time Division II National
Champion (1993-1995). She received three major awards in 1995, including Today’s Top Eight, the
Honda Division II Athlete of the Year, and the Virginia NCAA Woman of the Year. Charlaine was a four-
time All-American (1992-1995), and a three-time academic All-Scholar honoree. She played on the LPGA
Futures Tour for nine years (1996-2004) and competed in the US Women’s Open (1998), and the
Wegmans LPGA Championship (2010). She was honored in 2013 with induction into the Women’s Golf
Coaches Association, Collegiate Player Hall of Fame.
Charlaine has been a Class A LPGA member since 2011 and she currently serves as the LPGA
Southeast Section as Vice President and Chairs the LPGA Education Committee as well as serving on the National Tournament Committee. She is also an instructor/evaluator on the Global Education Team. Charlaine received the Sandy LaBauve Girls Golf Site
Director of the Year (2020) and National Junior Leader of the Year (2021). Charlaine was honored as an
LPGA Top 50 Instructor in 2022-2023 and 2024-2025.
Also a published author, Charlaine wrote the history of the Farmville Presbyterian Church, in her
beloved college town of Farmville, VA. In August 1996, Charlaine married US Air Force Lt. Col. (Retired)
Jay Hirst, in the same church. Charlaine and Jay are blessed with their daughter Alexandra, who has
Committed to attend Longwood University in 2024, the same university Charlaine attended.
