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Senior Women’s Am 4 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Entries Open to female amateur golfers who will have reached their 50th birthday on or before Sept. 8, 2012, and have a USGA Handicap Index® not exceeding 18.4. Entries close July 25. Starting Field 132 players Schedule of Play • Saturday, Sept. 8 — First round, stroke play (18 holes) • Sunday, Sept. 9 — Second round, stroke play (18 holes) After 36 holes, the field will be cut to the low 64 scorers, who will advance to match play. • Monday, Sept. 10 — First round, match play (18 holes) • Tuesday, Sept. 11 — Second round, match play (18 holes); Third round, match play (18 holes) • Wednesday, Sept. 12 — Quarterfinals, match play (18 holes); Semifinals, match play (18 holes) • Thursday, Sept. 13 — Final, match play (18 holes) Sectional Qualifying 18 holes of stroke play, scheduled at 26 sites, between Aug. 7-23. Exemptions from Sectional Qualifying • Winners of the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship the last 10 years (2002-2011) • Runners-up of the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship the last three years (2009-2011) • Semifinalists of the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship the last two years (2010-2011) • Quarterfinalists from the 2011 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship • From the 2012 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those returning scores for 72 holes • From the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those returning scores for 72 holes 2012 Conditions of Play • Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the last 15 years or 15 years from the time the player becomes age eligible • Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the last three years (2010-2012) • Quarterfinalists from the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship • From the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, winners in 2011 and 2012 and the runner-up in 2012 • From the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, winner and runner-up in 2011 • Playing members of the two most current United States and Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Teams (2010 and 2012) • Playing members of the two most current United States Women’s World Amateur Teams (2010 and 2012) • Winners of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship the last five years (2008-2012) • Winner of the most recent Senior Ladies British Open Amateur Championship • Winner of the 2012 European Senior Ladies Championship • Winner of the 2012 Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Senior Championship • Winners of the most current Women’s Mexican Amateur and the Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championships • From the current Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings, the top 500 point leaders and anyone tying for 500th place as of July 25, 2012) (Must have filed an entry by July 25, 2012) • Special exemptions selected by the USGA

Terri Frohnmayer, 55, of Salem, Ore., who is nicknamed “Little Bit,” was a giant-killer in defeating Mina Hardin, 51, of Fort Worth, Texas, and winning the 2011 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur at the 5,876-yard, par-72 Honors Course. Consistently out-hit from the tee, Frohnmayer beat Hardin, the defending champion, 2 and 1. Despite being out-driven by as much as 70 yards, she also knocked off Lisa Schlesinger, of Laytonsville, Md., and Kim Eaton, of Greeley, Colo., in the semifinals and quarterfinals, respectively. “I’m certainly not a long ball hitter like Mina is,” said Frohnmayer, “but it’s not the drive. It’s how you arrive. I just played the holes like I played all week. Just stay in the middle and get it on the green in regulation and two-putt.” As the two players walked off the 17th green, where the match ended, Hardin told Frohnmayer, “You played beautifully. It was a wonderful match. Enjoy it.” With overcast weather making the greens receptive to Frohnmayer’s hybrid wood shots, she was able to stop her approach shots to the green, very often near the hole. But Frohnmayer had to come from behind to win her first national championship. Hardin got off to a good start and won the second and fourth holes to take a 2-up lead. Frohnmayer then won the fifth hole with a par and the sixth with a birdie to square the match. On the 140-yard, par-3 eighth hole, Frohnmayer rammed in an 18-foot birdie putt to take the lead for the first time. “That was a little bit unexpected when she made that long putt,” Hardin said. “She just knocked it right in. She hit beautiful shots and she had it all going today.” Frohnmayer hit her approach shot into a water hazard on No. 9 and Hardin won the hole with a birdie to square the match, but her hopes for a repeat were dashed when her opponent won three straight holes, beginning at the 11th. Frohnmayer Wins the 2011 Championship Hardin hit her tee shots into water hazards on the 11th and 13th holes, making a bogey and a double-bogey to lose the holes. On the 315-yard, par-4 12th, Frohnmayer hit a pitching wedge from 108 yards to within 3 1/2 feet and made the birdie putt to win the hole. At the end of the stretch of three holes, Frohnmayer was 3 up. She lost the par-3 16th hole when she hit her tee shot into a water hazard, making a double bogey to Hardin’s birdie. At the 17th, now dormie 2, Frohnmayer made a routine par to halve the hole and win the match. In a field of experienced competitors, Frohnmayer was playing in just her third national championship. She lost to Betsy King in the second round of the 1973 U.S. Girls’ Junior and was a member of the Rollins College team that played in the 1978 National Women’s Collegiate Championship. After college she went to work in real estate and put away her golf clubs. She began playing again in 2003. After her mother died in 2007, Frohnmayer returned to competition because her mother had urged her to. She won the 2010 Pacific Northwest Golf Association’s Women’s Senior Championship but was little known outside of the Pacific Northwest. “Life’s really short and I love being outdoors,” Frohnmayer said. “It doesn’t get any better than being on a golf course.” Frohnmayer knew few players when she arrived at The Honors Course, but was befriended by volunteers. One couple, friends of Frohnmayer’s caddie, Bob Lawson, took her to dinner. The couple owns a fragrance company and concocted a scent of lavender and French vanilla for Frohnmayer. The fragrance is named “Victory.” “It smells really good,” said Frohnmayer. USGA Senior Women’s Amateur 5 Senior Women’s Am

Senior<br />

Women’s Am<br />

4 <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s Amateur<br />

Entries<br />

Open to female amateur golfers who will have reached their<br />

50th birthday on or before Sept. 8, 2012, and have a <strong>USGA</strong><br />

Handicap Index® not exceeding 18.4. Entries close July 25.<br />

Starting Field<br />

132 players<br />

Schedule of Play<br />

• Saturday, Sept. 8 — First round, stroke play (18 holes)<br />

• Sunday, Sept. 9 — Second round, stroke play (18 holes)<br />

After 36 holes, the field will be cut to the low 64 scorers, who<br />

will advance to match play.<br />

• Monday, Sept. 10 — First round, match play (18 holes)<br />

• Tuesday, Sept. 11 — Second round, match play<br />

(18 holes); Third round, match play (18 holes)<br />

• Wednesday, Sept. 12 — Quarterfinals, match play<br />

(18 holes); Semifinals, match play (18 holes)<br />

• Thursday, Sept. 13 — Final, match play (18 holes)<br />

Sectional Qualifying<br />

18 holes of stroke play, scheduled at 26 sites, between Aug. 7-23.<br />

Exemptions from Sectional Qualifying<br />

• Winners of the <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s Amateur<br />

Championship the last 10 years (2002-2011)<br />

• Runners-up of the <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s Amateur<br />

Championship the last three years (2009-2011)<br />

• Semifinalists of the <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s Amateur<br />

Championship the last two years (2010-2011)<br />

• Quarterfinalists from the 2011 <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s<br />

Amateur Championship<br />

• From the 2012 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those<br />

returning scores for 72 holes<br />

• From the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those<br />

returning scores for 72 holes<br />

2012 Conditions of Play<br />

• Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the<br />

last 15 years or 15 years from the time the player becomes age<br />

eligible<br />

• Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the<br />

last three years (2010-2012)<br />

• Quarterfinalists from the 2012 U.S. Women’s Amateur<br />

Championship<br />

• From the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship,<br />

winners in 2011 and 2012 and the runner-up in 2012<br />

• From the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, winner<br />

and runner-up in 2011<br />

• Playing members of the two most current United States and<br />

Great Britain and Ireland Curtis Cup Teams (2010 and 2012)<br />

• Playing members of the two most current United States<br />

Women’s World Amateur Teams (2010 and 2012)<br />

• Winners of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship<br />

the last five years (2008-2012)<br />

• Winner of the most recent Senior Ladies British Open<br />

Amateur Championship<br />

• Winner of the 2012 European Senior Ladies Championship<br />

• Winner of the 2012 Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Senior<br />

Championship<br />

• Winners of the most current Women’s Mexican Amateur and<br />

the Royale Cup Canadian Women’s Amateur Championships<br />

• From the current Women’s World Amateur Golf Rankings,<br />

the top 500 point leaders and anyone tying for 500th place<br />

as of July 25, 2012) (Must have filed an entry by July 25, 2012)<br />

• Special exemptions selected by the <strong>USGA</strong>

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