Can anyone possible deny Dot Bolling a record seventh title in today's final round of the 30th Roanoke Valley Golf Hall of Fame women's championship at Hanging Rock?

If any of Bolling's pursuers are searching for inspiration, Big Brown's shocking failure as the prohibitive favorite in Saturday's Belmont Stakes should provide hope.

With 17-year-old Meredith Swanson, winner of three of the past four HOF titles in Texas this weekend competing in a junior event, Bolling assumed her customary position as head of the class Saturday, posting a 6-over 78 on her home Roanoke Country Club course to take a one-shot lead.

"Meredith would have probably smoked us," Bolling said. "I hit two greens, I think. I'm not really into it. I love to play tournament golf. I just wish I had that mind-set again. But, yeah, I'll give them a run [today]."

Bolling, whose list of major victories in the area and state level will likely never be matched in these parts, leads upstart Debbie Young of Botetourt Country Club by one stroke.

"Just count me out," cracked Young, a multiple club champion at Botetourt Country Club. "Beat Dot? Sure! She could maybe miss her tee time [today] or something like that.

"I'll probably play like I usually do ... this is just a little fluke. The field is moving up to my level, maybe that's it.

"But if I win, that would be the greatest thing in golf I've ever done. Does that make you happy?"

Rising Hollins University senior Vicki Kasza, who has come agonizingly close to winning the HOF several times, is two shots back.

"I wasn't even going to play because I was going to visit my grandma in England, but I couldn't get my passport until it was too late," said Kasza, who finished third last year in a playoff with Swanson and Bolling.

"This thing doesn't matter to me. I would rather get into medical school than win this tournament."

Kasza, 20, has game, though. She finished 16th in the recent NCAA Division III women's championship in Waterloo, Iowa.

"Talk about crazy," she said. "There was a tornado the last day of the tournament and it picked our bags up in the air. I had never seen a tornado before."

Many will tell you that the veteran Bolling is much akin to a tornado with a tournament title on the line.

"Anybody is beatable," Kasza retorted.