Quarters set at California Women's Am; Akabane skates by
7/26/2018 | by AmateurGolf.com Staff
see also: California Women's Amateur Championship, Santa Ana Country Club
Top seed Ty Akabane snuck into the quarterfinals with a 1-up victory on Stanford's Ziyi Wang
No.1 seed Ty Akabane of Danville, who beat the field by seven shots in stroke-play qualifying, looked like she was on her way out early in her Round of 16 match to No.17 Ziyi Wang. Wang, who plays at Stanford, went 6 under through the first eight holes to take a huge 4-up lead.
Akabane’s comeback sets up a quarterfinal showdown with No. 9 seed Sabrina Iqbal. Iqbal, who won the CWAC title in 2016, won her Round of 16 match, 2 up.
No. 2 seed Elizabeth Schultz also moved on to the quarterfinals. The Walnut Creek resident, who played at San Jose State, won her two matches, 3 and 2 and 2 and 1.
No. 3 seed Andrea Gomez was not as fortunate, falling to No. 14 Kathleen Scavo, who plays for the University of Oregon. Scavo won the California Junior Girls’ State title in both 2012 and 2013. Earlier this month, she won the Women’s Trans National Championship.
No.4 seed Madelyn Gamble of Pleasant Hill, a sophomore at Carondelet High and the runner-up at this year’s California Junior Girls’ Championship, cruised in her two matches, 7 and 6 and 5 and 4. She’ll next take on No.2 1 Maria Davis in the quarterfinals.
The other two quarterfinals matches will pit Schultz vs. No. 10 Natasha Oon and Scavo against No. 11 Alice Duan. Oon, a junior star in Malaysia, will start playing for San Jose State this fall.
About the California Women's Amateur
The California Women’s Amateur Championship was founded in 1967 and played at Pebble Beach Golf Links until 1987 when the Championship was invited to Quail Lodge & Golf Club in Carmel, where it was played through 2019. 36-hole stroke play qualifying ...
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