Wednesday Morning: A Final Set, an All-Florida Bid Closed

For three hours Wednesday morning, both Florida sides led their semifinals. Carter and Snyder were 3 up through 11 on Linder/Miller. Davis and Huber were 1 up through 10 on Ellison/Scheck. By the time the dust settled at Daniel Island, only one of those Florida leads had held. The all-Florida final the bracket flirted with for an hour gave way to a more conventional shape: the youngest side in the field versus the highest seed left in it.

SF1: Carter & Snyder Close Out the Last Exempt Side

The 15-year-old Floridians never let Sophie Linder and Mary Miller back in. Three matches into the bracket, Carter/Snyder had won every one of them by 4 or more — 4 and 2 in the R32, 6 and 5 in the R16, 6 and 5 in the QF. The semifinal made it four straight, with the same 3-up lead they took into the back nine holding through closing time. Final margin: 4 and 2. The Ole Miss teammates Linder and Miller, the championship’s only credentialed side to reach the semifinals after eliminating the 2025 runners-up, the medalists, and the No. 9 seed across three days, ended their week one match short of the championship.

SF2: Ellison & Scheck Flip a Florida Lead

Davis and Huber, who had built their bracket run on back-nine comebacks, found themselves on the other side of one. After leading 1 up through 10 against No. 3 Ellison/Scheck, the Florida college rivals couldn’t hold the line. Ellison and Scheck rolled to a 2-and-1 win, advancing as the only side in the field to enter the championship match having defeated higher-seeded opposition in match play. Davis and Huber finish their week with an upset of the 2021 champions, an upset of Hall/Lee, and the championship’s most-told back-nine comeback.

The Championship Match: How They Got Here

(21) Grace Carter & Alexandra Snyder

Both 15. Both Floridians. Carter (Jupiter) is a U.S. National Junior Team member who reached the semifinals of the 2025 U.S. Girls’ Junior. Snyder (Orlando) is her partner. Their match-play resume reads like a power side’s: 4 and 2 in R32, 6 and 5 in R16, 6 and 5 in QF, 4 and 2 in SF. Four matches. Twenty fewer holes played than possible. The youngest side ever to reach a U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball championship match.

(3) Morgan Ellison & Katie Scheck

Both 23. Ellison (Peachtree City, Ga.) played college golf at UTSA, where Mary Janiga Kartes was her assistant coach — the same Janiga Kartes whose side Ellison/Scheck eliminated in the Round of 32. Scheck (Ooltewah, Tenn.) played at Mercer. The No. 3 seed has won every match they’ve played as the higher seed: 1 up over Dinh/Kartes, 1 up over Lemmon/Snively, 21 holes over Cook/Yelverton (the QF that resumed Wednesday morning on the 21st tee), 2 and 1 over Davis/Huber. They’re the only side in the field to do that.

Semifinal Results

The Path Through Match Play

15 vs. 23: A Generation Gap of Eight Years

Carter and Snyder are 15. Both still in high school, both with college decisions ahead. Ellison and Scheck are 23. Both college graduates, both reinstated amateurs. The eight-year age gap between the sides is one of the widest at this stage of any USGA championship in recent memory. The two pairings represent the two most distinct paths to amateur four-ball success: junior phenoms still on the rise, and post-college amateurs back in the championship rotation.

A teenage duo has won the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball every year since 2021. Carter and Snyder have a chance to extend that streak with one of the youngest champion sides in event history. Ellison and Scheck have a chance to break it.

No matter who wins, the bracket has already done what it does best: produced a champion that almost no one had on the card before play started. Carter/Snyder were a No. 21 seed. Ellison/Scheck were the No. 3 seed but had to escape the QF in 21 holes. Of the 13 sides that arrived at Daniel Island with full exemptions, none reached the championship match. The match itself pits the highest seed left in the bracket against a side from outside the top 20.

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