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Women’s
State Team
6 USGA Women’s State Team
Leaders
Round 1 – Maryland, at 1-under-par 143 (Elyse Smidinger
68, Lisa Schlesinger 75), by three strokes over Texas (Anna
Schultz 72, Robin Burke 74). Round 2 – Maryland, at 8-over
296 (Smidinger 72, Schlesinger 81), by one stroke over Texas
(Schultz 75, Mina Hardin 76).
Weather
Sunny all three rounds with temperatures in the 70s to low
80s. The winds picked up in the afternoon each of the final
two days.
Notes
A total of 51 teams participated in this year’s championship,
which matched the largest field in the event’s history. The 2007
Women’s State Team also drew 51 teams … Puerto Rico fielded
a team for the first time … New Hampshire was the only state
not to send a team … Six USGA champions were in the field:
Virginia Grimes, of Mississippi (1998 U.S. Women’s Mid-
Amateur); Mina Hardin, of Texas (2010 USGA Senior Women’s
Amateur); Joan Higgins, of California (2008 U.S. Women’s
Mid-Amateur); Martha Leach, of Kentucky (2009 U.S.
Women’s Mid-Amateur); Anna Schultz of Texas (2007 USGA
2011 Championship Notes
Senior Women’s Amateur); and Meghan Stasi, of Florida
(2006, 2007 and 2010 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur) … Four
past USA Curtis Cup players also competed: Robin Burke,
of Texas (1998); Grimes (1998, 2000 and 2006); Noreen
Mohler, of Pennsylvania (1978, 2010 captain); and Stasi (2008)
… Laura Coble, of Georgia (2005 and 2009); Grimes (1997
for Alabama); Leigh Klasse, of Minnesota (2001); Thuhashini
Selvaratnam, of Arizona (2007); and Lynn Thompson, of Ohio
(2003), were past winning USGA Women’s State Team members
in the field … Susan Marchese, of Nebraska, continued
her streak of playing in all nine USGA Women’s State Teams …
Carol Semple Thompson, of Pennsylvania, and current USGA
Women’s Committee Chairman Martha Lang, of Louisiana,
had their streaks ended at eight. Thompson served as the
non-playing captain for Pennsylvania. Lang was in attendance
as a USGA Rules official … Allisen Corpuz, 13, of Hawaii, was
the youngest competitor and Anne Carr, 67, of Washington,
was the oldest competitor. Hawaii (average age 14) had the
youngest team, while Virginia (average age 57.3) had the oldest
team … The competition was a homecoming for Kentucky’s
Leach, who grew up in Savannah … A total of 31 competitors in
this year’s field competed in their first USGA championship.