It took an extra hole to decide who would move on to the finals on Tuesday at the prestigious East Lake Cup, but Auburn redshirt freshman Casey Weidenfeld's win
Auburn finished the stroke play portion of the East Lake Cup on Monday. Auburn finished the tournament at 6-over (294) as a team and has drawn a match with Oregon
Clemson, S.C. In what must be considered the finest day of amateur play in Clemson women’s golf history, Annabelle Pancake and Savannah Grewal both advanced to the final 32 with first-round match play victories at the 122nd United States Women’s Amateur championship at Chambers Bay Golf Club in University Place, Washington.After never having an active roster player win a match at the US Women’s Amateur, two Clemson women’s golfers gained victory on the same day. Former Clemson players Ashlan Ramsey and Lauren Stephenson both had won matches previous, but both wins took place before they were seniors in high school.Pancake and Grewal won their matches in strong fashion, as neither trailed at any point in their match. Pancake was 4-up after nine holes and Grewal had a 3-up lead after the initial nine.Pancake won her match, 5 & 4 over Abbey Daniel of Covington, La,, a senior at Mississippi State. The Clemson junior won five holes and did not lose any in the 14 holes the two go
CARROLLTON, Texas (AP) â Savannah Barker and Alexa Saldana won the U.S. Women s Amateur Four-ball Championship on Wednesday, surviving a 20-hole match in the semifinals and then pulling away late in the final at Maridoe Golf Club.
Barker and Saldana won six of the last eight holes, finishing with a birdie on the par-3 14th hole for a 5-and-4 victory over Jillian Bourdage and Casey Weidenfeld.
Bourdage and Weidenfeld also lost in the championship match two years ago.
Barker and Savannah, the 26th seed out of 32 teams that made it through medal qualifying, never had to go more than 15 holes in their first three matches.