PONTE VEDRA, FL (June 22, 2011) -- Of the 64 places in the Championship Flight, 50 players either played collegiate golf this past season or will enter college this fall. Top seed Madison Pressel, Boca Raton, FL,defeated Thuhashini (“Tui”) Selvaratnam, Tempe, AZ, 2 up. Selvaratnam survivedTuesday’s night’s playoff that had 6 players vying for the 5 final spots in ChampionshipFlight which earned her the right to play Pressel, whose older sister, Morgan, plays on the LPGA tour. Meghan Stasi, Oakland Park, FL, who tied for Medalist with Pressel, narrowly won her match 1 up on the 18th hole over Rachel Smith, Mansfield, TX, a 2010 Cum Laude Winthrop University graduate.
5th Seed Cyna Rodriquez defeated fellow Philippine native Daniela Uy, 4 and 3. Rodriquez, who will be a Junior at the University of Southern California this fall, also defeated Uy, 6 and 4, in the 1st round of Match Play at last year’s WWGA 110th National Amateur Championship at Rochester Country Club, Rochester, Minnesota. Uy also participated in Tuesday’s Play Off.In another match, fellow teammates from the University of Virginia faced eachother. Recent Graduate Calle Nielson, Nashville, TN, the recent winner of the Women’sSouthern Amateur Championship, defeated incoming Sophomore Melissa Edmondson,Coral Gables, FL, 4 and 3. Tomorrow morning she will face another UVA teammate and3rd seed, Brittany Altomare, Shrewsbury, MA, who defeated University of Illinois Senior,Nora Lucas, Chicago, IL, 1 up.
Courtney McKim, Raleigh, NC, the 2009 Winner of the WWGA’s 83rd National Junior Championship, defeated Kaitlyn Price, Jacksonville, FL, 2 up. At one time in thematch McKim held a 5 up lead but narrowed it to 1 up on the 18th tee due to Price’sfortitude. Price is a rising Sophomore at the University of Central Florida.
In other Championship Flight matches involving local Jacksonville Area players, Florida Times Union High School Player of the Year and incoming Duke University freshman Irene Jung, lost to Florida Southern College rising Senior Melanie (MJ) Audette, Lakeland, FL, 2 and 1; and University of South Carolina Senior to be Katie Burnett,Brunswick, GA, defeated Brittany Tallman, a incoming Senior at the University ofWashington from Issaquah, WA, 1 up.
ABOUT THE Women's Western Amateur
The The Western Golf Association (WGA) has
partnered with the Women’s Western Golf
Association to administer the
Women’s Western Amateur. Held without interruption
since 1901, this event is one of the
oldest annual championships in women’s amateur
golf. The list of past champions includes
current stars and legends of the LPGA TOUR,
including Ariya Jutanugarn (2012), Stacy Lewis
(2006), Brittany Lang (2003), Grace Park (1998),
Cristie Kerr (1995) and Nancy Lopez (1976).
The Women's Western Amateur is open to amateur
women who have an up-to-date 18-hole
handicap index
that does not exceed 5.4 under the World Handicap
System. The WWGA Committee limits the
field to a
maximum of 120 contestants.
The championship begins with 36 holes of stroke-
play qualifying, after which the field is cut to
the low 32
players for match play. In the event of a tie for the
32nd position, a sudden-elimination playoff
will determine
the final match play qualifiers. Five rounds of 18-hole
matches will decide the Women's
Western Amateur
champion.
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