ChAmpionShipS mediA GUide - USGA
ChAmpionShipS mediA GUide - USGA ChAmpionShipS mediA GUide - USGA
WAPL 4 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Entries Open to female amateur golfers who, since Jan. 1, 2012, have been bona fide public-course players and have not held privileges of any course that does not extend playing privileges to the general public, or privileges of any private club maintaining its own course, and have a USGA Handicap Index® not exceeding 18.4. A bona fide public-course player may hold incidental privileges of a course not open to the public when such privileges are provided by (1) an educational institution at which she is a student, or (2) a federal armed service of which she is a member or retired member, or (3) an industry by which she is employed or retired. Entries close May 9. Starting Field 156 players Schedule of Play • Monday, June 18 — First round, stroke play (18 holes) • Tuesday, June 19 — 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. • Wednesday, June 20 — First round, match play (18 holes) • Thursday, June 21 — Second round, match play (18 holes); Third round, match play (18 holes) • Friday, June 22 — Quarterfinals, match play (18 holes); Semifinals, match play (18 holes) • Saturday, June 23 — Final, match play (36 holes) Sectional Qualifying 18 holes stroke play, scheduled at 34 sites between May 23 and June 4. Exemptions from Sectional Qualifying • Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship the last 10 years (2002-2011) • Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship the last three years (2009-2011) • Semifinalists of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship the last two years (2010-2011) 2012 Conditions of Play • Quarterfinalists from the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship • From the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those returning scores for 72 holes • Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the last 15 years (1997-2011) • Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the last three years (2009-2011) • Quarterfinalists from the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship • From the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship, winners in 2010 and 2011 and the runner-up in 2011 • From the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, winners in 2010 and 2011 and the runner up in 2011 • From the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, winners in 2010 and 2011 and the 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 (2008 and 2010) • Winner of the 2012 individual NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championship • Winners of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship (2008-2011) • 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 50 point leaders and anyone tying for 50th place as of May 9, 2012 (Must have filed an entry by May 9, 2012) • Special exemptions as selected by the USGA
Brianna Do only led for three holes. Luckily for her, she led the one that counted most. Do, 21, of Vietnam, won the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, defeating Marissa Dodd, 17, of Allen, Texas, 1 up, in the 36-hole championship match, which was conducted at the 6,098-yard, par-71 Old Macdonald layout at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort. In victory, Do became the second UCLA player in three years to win the Women’s Amateur Public Links, joining Tiffany Joh, who won the title in 2006 and 2008. Mary Enright, also a former UCLA player, won the title in 1981. “I don’t really know what it feels like right now,” said an overwhelmed Do, a UCLA senior. “I don’t think it’s hit me. But it feels good as of right now. I don’t really know how to describe it.” While Do ultimately took the victory, it was Dodd, an incoming freshman at Wake Forest University, who dominated much of the morning round, holding the lead for 10 of the first 11 holes. However, Dodd’s early run was halted when she bogeyed the par-3 12th to square the match. Another Dodd bogey after a tough run-in with a bunker on the par-4 16th gave Do her first lead of the match. “It was a couple of unlucky kicks,” said Dodd, whose only previous match-play experience was a first-round loss at the 2010 U.S. Girls’ Junior. “But that’s the way the course works and you’ve got to come back from them.” And come back she did. Dodd was able to capitalize on consecutive Do bogeys on 17 and 18 to take a 1-up lead into the lunch break. In the afternoon, Dodd came out on a tear, carding birdies on three of the first four holes to take a 3-up lead, the largest of the final. But the lead evaporated with consecutive bogeys on holes 23-25, squaring the match once again. “I just kind of took my time,” said Do of her mindset in fighting back from the deficit. “I was patient and kind of chipped away at it.” Do briefly regained the lead when Dodd bogeyed the par-4 29th hole. But her own bogey on the ensuing par-3 30th quickly squared the match again. Dodd took the lead back with a well-timed birdie on the par-4 32nd hole and carried the advantage until the par-5 35th. But when Dodd’s approach landed 9 feet past the hole, Do put hers even closer and won the hole with a birdie, squaring the match going into the 36th hole. Do Wins the 2011 Championship U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links 5 “I got back to all square, one up, one down,” said Do, who was born in Lakewood, Calif., but represented her parents’ home country at the championship. “The last two holes is where it counted. My putting kind of showed up today in those two holes. “Going to 18 all square was a lot better than going in one down knowing you have to birdie to keep it going.” What Do coined as a “perfect” drive on the 36th set the tone for the finish. While Dodd found a fairway bunker, Do’s clean approach from the fairway gave her the chance to safely reach the green in regulation. With her short par putt conceded, Do watched Dodd fail on her par attempt and give Do the title. “I played and I hit some really good shots after I was 3 down, and I had some really good opportunities,” said Do. “I just took advantage.” In winning the national title for female public-course golfers, Do was also able to take some consolation for not participating in UCLA’s NCAA Division I title run the past spring. While she is a member of the UCLA women’s golf team, she was not part of the five-woman squad that went to College Station, Texas, for the championship. “I am a Bruin, and I’m representing [as] a Bruin this week, but this is kind of my national championship,” said Do, who added her name to past Women’s Amateur Public Links champions such as Candie Kung, Michelle Wie and Yani Tseng. As a relative unknown before this championship, Dodd admitted to exceeding her own expectations with her performance. With her father, Mark, as her caddie and her mother, sister, grandparents and many other family and friends in the gallery after making a last-minute trip from Texas, Dodd did shed a few tears after missing her final putt. “Happy tears, sad tears,” said Dodd. “It was all really good, though. I had so much fun. I had a blast out here with my dad and everybody who came out here to watch me. I really appreciate it all and had a great time.” WAPL
- Page 36 and 37: Curtis Cup 8 Curtis Cup Match Offic
- Page 38 and 39: Curtis Cup 10 Curtis Cup Match 1952
- Page 40 and 41: Curtis Cup 12 Curtis Cup Match 1976
- Page 42 and 43: Curtis Cup 14 Curtis Cup Match 2000
- Page 44 and 45: Curtis Cup 16 Curtis Cup Match A Al
- Page 46 and 47: Curtis Cup 18 Curtis Cup Match Joh,
- Page 48 and 49: Curtis Cup 20 Curtis Cup Match U Ui
- Page 50 and 51: Curtis Cup 22 Curtis Cup Match 1932
- Page 52 and 53: 2011 U.S. Open Champion Rory McIlro
- Page 54 and 55: Open 4 U.S. Open Entries Open to an
- Page 56 and 57: Open 6 U.S. Open We are glad you ha
- Page 58 and 59: Open 8 U.S. Open
- Page 60 and 61: Open 10 U.S. Open 111th U.S. Open C
- Page 62 and 63: Open 12 U.S. Open On Oct. 4, 1895,
- Page 64 and 65: Open 14 U.S. Open 1931 (July 2-4) B
- Page 66 and 67: Open 16 U.S. Open 2008 (June 12-15)
- Page 68 and 69: Open 18 U.S. Open Age Oldest Champi
- Page 70 and 71: Open 20 U.S. Open Champions Not Ret
- Page 72 and 73: Open 22 U.S. Open Lowest Score, Las
- Page 74 and 75: Open 24 U.S. Open Highest Score by
- Page 76 and 77: Open 26 U.S. Open Most Sub-Par Scor
- Page 78 and 79: Open 28 U.S. Open Holes-In-One (41)
- Page 80 and 81: Open 30 U.S. Open Exemptions for In
- Page 83 and 84: U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links
- Page 85: Par: 36-36—72 Yardage: 6,195 36th
- Page 89 and 90: Leaders Round 1 - Kelsey Vines, at
- Page 91 and 92: June 27 — July 2, 2011, Bandon Du
- Page 93 and 94: In April 1977, when entries for the
- Page 95 and 96: 2003 (June 17-22) Michelle Wie d. V
- Page 97 and 98: Oldest Champion 23 Amy Fruhwirth, 1
- Page 99 and 100: U.S. Women’s Open Championship Ju
- Page 101 and 102: Par: 36-36—72 Yardage: 6,944 Club
- Page 103 and 104: In the end, with all the weather de
- Page 105 and 106: Leaders Round 1 - Stacy Lewis, at 3
- Page 107 and 108: U.S. Women’s Open 9 Rd.1 Rd.2 Rd.
- Page 109 and 110: Conducted by Women’s Professional
- Page 111 and 112: U.S. Women’s Open 13 No. Year Cha
- Page 113 and 114: Winners of Women’s Amateur and Wo
- Page 115 and 116: Largest 18-Hole Lead 3 Louise Suggs
- Page 117 and 118: U.S. Women’s Open 19 Foreign-Born
- Page 119 and 120: U.S. Amateur Public Links Champions
- Page 121 and 122: Par: 36-35—71 Yardage: 7,717 87th
- Page 123 and 124: Mills, 21, of Easley, S.C., became
- Page 125 and 126: Leaders Round 1 - Devon Purser, at
- Page 127 and 128: Ernst 3 and 2 Semifinal Round Frida
- Page 129 and 130: The U.S. Amateur Public Links Champ
- Page 131 and 132: 1955 (July 11-16) Sam D. Kocsis d.
- Page 133 and 134: U.S. APL Team Championship Results:
- Page 135 and 136: Date Winner Score Site Entry 1994 (
WAPL<br />
4 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links<br />
Entries<br />
Open to female amateur golfers who, since Jan. 1, 2012, have<br />
been bona fide public-course players and have not held privileges<br />
of any course that does not extend playing privileges to<br />
the general public, or privileges of any private club maintaining<br />
its own course, and have a <strong>USGA</strong> Handicap Index® not<br />
exceeding 18.4. A bona fide public-course player may hold<br />
incidental privileges of a course not open to the public when<br />
such privileges are provided by (1) an educational institution at<br />
which she is a student, or (2) a federal armed service of which<br />
she is a member or retired member, or (3) an industry by which<br />
she is employed or retired. Entries close May 9.<br />
Starting Field<br />
156 players<br />
Schedule of Play<br />
• Monday, June 18 — First round, stroke play (18 holes)<br />
• Tuesday, June 19 — Second round, stroke play<br />
(18 holes)<br />
After 36 holes, the field will be cut to the low 64 scorers, who<br />
will advance to match play.<br />
• Wednesday, June 20 — First round, match play<br />
(18 holes)<br />
• Thursday, June 21 — Second round, match play<br />
(18 holes); Third round, match play (18 holes)<br />
• Friday, June 22 — Quarterfinals, match play<br />
(18 holes); Semifinals, match play (18 holes)<br />
• Saturday, June 23 — Final, match play (36 holes)<br />
Sectional Qualifying<br />
18 holes stroke play, scheduled at 34 sites between May 23 and<br />
June 4.<br />
Exemptions from Sectional Qualifying<br />
• Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links<br />
Championship the last 10 years (2002-2011)<br />
• Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links<br />
Championship the last three years (2009-2011)<br />
• Semifinalists of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links<br />
Championship the last two years (2010-2011)<br />
2012 Conditions of Play<br />
• Quarterfinalists from the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public<br />
Links Championship<br />
• From the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open Championship, those<br />
returning scores for 72 holes<br />
• Winners of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the<br />
last 15 years (1997-2011)<br />
• Runners-up of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship the<br />
last three years (2009-2011)<br />
• Quarterfinalists from the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur<br />
Championship<br />
• From the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship, winners in 2010<br />
and 2011 and the runner-up in 2011<br />
• From the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, winners<br />
in 2010 and 2011 and the runner up in 2011<br />
• From the <strong>USGA</strong> Senior Women’s Amateur Championship,<br />
winners in 2010 and 2011 and the 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 (2008 and 2010)<br />
• Winner of the 2012 individual NCAA Division I Women’s<br />
Golf Championship<br />
• Winners of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship<br />
(2008-2011)<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 50 point leaders and anyone tying for 50th place as<br />
of May 9, 2012 (Must have filed an entry by May 9, 2012)<br />
• Special exemptions as selected by the <strong>USGA</strong>
Change language