Corey Weworski all smiles after winning California Senior Amateur
(NCGA Photo)
PEBBLE BEACH, CA (May 17, 2016) - It’s been a long
time coming.
Carlsbad resident Corey Weworski shot her
second
straight 2-over 74 Tuesday at par-72 Poppy Hills Golf
Course to capture this week’s annual California
Senior
Women’s Amateur Championship.
The victory was Weworski’s first since her win at
the 2004 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship.
That same year, Google introduced Gmail.
“It feels really good to win again,” said the now
54-
year-old Weworski, who finished the two-day
championship with a total score of 4-over 148. “I’ve
been playing pretty well lately.”
Having entered the final round with a tight one
stroke lead over two-time defending champion Lynne
Cowan, Weworski never made any major mistakes.
She’d card six bogeys, but offset those with a pair of
birdies and an eagle on the par-5 9th after reaching
the
green in two with a 7-iron and sinking a 10-foot putt.
In
Monday’s opening round, she’d eagle the par-5 16th.
“I was pretty consistent. I played smart off the
tee.
When I did make an error, I just took my lumps and
played to bogey,” said Weworski, who won the 1998
California Women’s Amateur Championship.
Cowan, who was looking to become the first
three-
peat winner since Marianne Towersey, just couldn’t
get
anything going. On the front-nine, the four-time
CWAC
winner had eights pars and a double-bogey (hole
No.8).
After the making the turn, she’d post a 38 with three
bogeys and a birdie for a 76 and 151 total, three
behind
the winner.
“I just kind of lost my swing and stopped hitting
greens,” said Cowan, who found herself in a bunker
eight times during the round. “My swing was off a
bit.”
In 2014, Weworski was runner-up to Cowan by
three shots.
“I didn’t care how I played this year. I just
wanted
to beat Lynne,” quipped Weworski.
Towersey, a record seven-time winner of the
Senior
CWAC, placed third at 153 after posting a tourney-
low
73. Mina Hardin was fourth at 157 following a 77.
In the Super Senior Championship (70-over),
Judith
Turco shot a final round 84 to come in at 178 and win
the title.
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ABOUT THE California Senior Women's Amateur
The California Senior Women’s Amateur
Championship started in 1979 and has been played
at Old Del Monte Golf Course, Laguna Seca, Carmel
Valley Ranch, Bayonet and Black Horse, Poppy Hills,
and Corral de Tierra Country Club. Age Limit: 50 and
over (Super Senior’s Flight:
70
and over), with Gross and Net flights
Format is 36 holes of Stroke Play.
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