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Women’s Amateur 6 U.S. Women’s Amateur

Leaders Round 1 – Jihee Kim, at 5-under 66, by two strokes over Xi Yu Lin and Mariel Galdiano. Round 2 – Kim and Lydia Ko were co-medalists at 6-under 136, by one stroke over Moriya Jutanugarn. Cut At 7-over-par 149, with a 5-for-1 playoff that lasted two holes to determine the final match-play spot. Weather Inclement weather plagued the championship. Play was suspended during Monday’s first round of stroke play at 5:12 p.m. due to thunderstorms in the area and resumed at 5:50 p.m., after a delay of 38 minutes. Play was again suspended Monday at 6:33 p.m. due to heavy rains and resumed at 7:10 p.m. It rained again late Tuesday afternoon, but not enough to delay play. Sunny with gentle breezes on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. It was rainy and overcast for the championship final. Notes HOLE PAR KANG JUTANUGARN HOLE PAR KANG JUTANUGARN Danielle Kang joined 10 players who have won at least two consecutive Women’s Amateur championships. The last to successfully defend was Kelli Kuehne in 1996. Also on that list is Kay Cockerill, who successfully defended her title in 1987 at Rhode Island C.C. … Five players, including Juli Inkster, won three U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships in a row but Kang will not join them in 2012 – she turned professional shortly after the 2011 championship … The average age of the 156 contestants in the field was 19.5. At age 12, Angel Yin was the youngest player in the field. At age 53, Alexandra Frazier, the 2010 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur runner-up, was the oldest. Yin and Frazier were both playing in their first The Final: Kang vs. Jutanugarn 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 2 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 5 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 5 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 4 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 4 2 4 4 4 4 4 3 4 2 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 2011 Championship Notes U.S. Women’s Amateur 7 – Won hole U.S. Women’s Amateur … The youngest player to advance to make the cut to match play was 13-year-old Mariel Galdiano … None of the 11 mid-amateurs (25 and older) in the field survived the cut … There were players from 33 states and 15 foreign countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, the People’s Republic of China, Colombia, Germany, Great Britain (England and Scotland), Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam) represented … Kang was one of 11 USGA champions in the field. She was joined by: Amy Anderson (2010 U.S. Girls’ Junior); Brianna Do (2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links); Mina Hardin (2010 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur); Sherry Herman (2009 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur); Martha Leach (2009 Women’s Mid-Amateur); Ariya Jutanugarn (2011 U.S. Girls’ Junior); Kristen Park (2007 Girls’ Junior); Meghan Stasi (2006, 2007 and 2010 Women’s Mid-Amateurs); and Emily Tubert (2010 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links) … Anderson, Chen, Jutanugarn and Kang were four of the 21 players in the field who competed at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open at The Broadmoor … Ariya Jutanugarn and her sister, Moriya, the eventual runner-up at the 2011 Women’s Amateur, were one of two sets of sisters in the field. The others were Brittany and Brooke Henderson, of Canada … Ariya caddied for her sister after being eliminated in the second round. The Jutanugarns were trying to become the first sisters ever to win USGA championships in the same year … Previously, the Curtis sisters (Harriot and Margaret) and Hollis Stacy and Martha Leach won USGA championships, but not in the same year … Elyse Smidinger survived a 5-for-1 playoff to earn the final matchplay spot, then eliminated co-medalist Jihee Kim in the first round ... There were eight extra-holes matches in the first round … Olivia Lansing got engaged on Friday, July 22, three days before she received a call from the USGA to tell her she got into the Women’s Amateur field as an alternate … There were three collegiate coaches in the field – Lauren Dobashi is an assistant coach at the University of California-Davis, Carol Robertson is the head coach at Old Dominion University and Margaret Shirley is the assistant coach at Auburn University. Women’s Amateur

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