- Golfweek photo by Tracy Wilcox
FT. LAUDERDALE, Florida (Jan. 23, 2010)
-- Put another check in
Alexis
Thompson’s win column. The 14-year-
old defended her title at the Ione D.
Jones/Doherty Championship Saturday,
beating Taylor Collins, 3 and 1, at Coral Ridge
Country Club in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.
Thompson, the top-ranked player in the
amateurgolf.com Women's
Player Rankings, is at the end of a five-
week stretch of amateur tournaments, which
began with a win at the Junior Orange Bowl
Dec. 30. She finished second at the Dixie
Amateur, lost in a playoff to Kyle Roig at the
Harder Hall and came in third at last week’s
Sally.
Thompson took the No. 1 seed in the
match-play portion of the Jones/Doherty, and
never had a match go past the 14th hole until
her semifinal match against Martha Leach,
the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion.
Thompson beat Leach, 1 up, before defeating
Collins, a junior at Nova Southeastern, in the
final.
Roig took the No. 2 seed, but lost to
Kelsey MacDonald, 1 up, in the
semifinals.
Daniela Lendl, who has committed to
Alabama for the fall of 2011, lost to Collins, 2
and 1, in the Round of 16. Amelia Lewis, who
recently left Florida after her first semester,
fell to Collins in the quarterfinals, 2 and
1.
In the senior division, Kim Eaton, who
advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S.
Senior Women’s Amateur, defeated Lisa
Schlesinger, 1 up.
The Ione D. Jones/Doherty Championship
is the third tournament on the Florida Orange Blossom
Circuit, which kicked off with the Harder
Hall.
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ABOUT THE Jones/Doherty Women's Amateur
The third event on the "Orange Blossom" circuit of
ladies events in Florida, with an illustrious list of past
champions
including Patty Berg, JoAnne Carner, Babe Zaharias
and
Marlene Stewart Streit, Natalie Gulbis, Michelle
McGann, Vicki
Goetze, Charley Hull and Lexi Thompson.
Tournament
consists of two divisions (Women's and Senior
Women's) playing an 18-hole qualifying for
match play flights in each division as follows:
Championship Flight of 16, First Flight of 16, Second
Flight
of 8.
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