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Katie Rose Higgins
Wins 87th Carolinas Women's Amateur Championship |
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Durham, NC
– Final results of the 87th Carolinas
Women’s Amateur Championship hosted by Treyburn
Country Club on Thursday, May 23, 2013 (5825 yards,
Par 36-36—72 Course/Slope Rating: 73.3/131).
Katie Rose
Higgins of Charleston, SC successfully defends her
title after shooting a 3-under par round
of 69—213 to win the 87th Carolinas Women’s
Amateur Championship. Higgins knew she needed to
shoot low to add another CGA title to her resume. “My
goal was to shoot four under. We were all pretty
tight early on and when Kathryn (Miranda) went
birdie-birdie on the first two holes I knew it was
going to be a horse race.” Higgins carded five
birdies and two bogeys on the day. She was heading
into the par 4 18th 4-under par (her goal
for the day) but unfortunately missed a small putt for
par and finished with a bogey. Either way she
maintained her three shot lead over Miranda and was
able to take home the most historic trophy for women’s
golf in the Carolinas yet again.
In the
Carolinas tees Melissa Sage of Charlotte, NC and Sook
Hee Yang of Jamestown, NC finished in a tie for first
but Sage won the first place prize in a score card
playoff. This division plays a shorter course.
Ashley Rose
of N. Augusta, SC (228) won the Senior trophy while
Carole Jones of Hillsborough, NC won the Super Senior
division for the fourth straight year.
- Complete scoring....
Guy and Ratner Share
Medalist Honors to Lead Qualifying for NC Amateur
WILMINGTON, NC – Sectional qualifying results of the
53rd North Carolina Amateur Championship
hosted by Echo Farms Golf & Country Club in
Wilmington, NC on Thursday, May 23, 2013 (6,955 yards,
Par 36-36—72, 73.1/132).
The cut line fell at three-over par 75. 15 players
advanced to the 53rd North Carolina Amateur
Championship that will be played June 13-16 at Forsyth
Country Club in Winston-Salem, NC. Noah Ratner and
Trey Guy both shot 69 to earn medalist honors. -
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Kristinsdottir
Notches 77 In Round 3 |
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The
Iceland native is 15-over par through three rounds
ATHENS, Ga. – Wake
Forest’s Olafia Kristinsdottir notched a 5-over 77 in
round three of the NCAA Women’s Golf Championship on
Thursday.
Kristinsdottir made six bogeys and one birdie in her
round and is now 15-over par through three rounds.
After rounds of 79-75-77, she’ll start the final round
in a tie for 108th place in the 126-player field.
Annie Park
of Southern Cal fired a 2-under 70 and has taken the
individual lead at 9-under par. Ally McDonald of
Mississippi State and 36-hole leader Stephanie Meadow
of Alabama are tied for second at 7-under par.
Kristinsdottir will start the final round at 12:48
p.m. off the tenth tee. She is paired with Emilie
Burger of
Georgia
and Jennifer Ha of Kent State. Golfstat.com will have
love scoring of the final round |
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Mitchell and Power Share
Overnight Lead at Willow Creek Heading Into
Friday’s Final Round |
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High Point, NC –
With just one round to go in the eGolf Tour’s third
annual Willow Creek Open, a final-round showdown is
being set, as co-leaders Adam Mitchell of Atlanta, GA
and Seamus Power of Ireland share the lead at 11-under
133 heading into Friday’s final round, with 18 players
within four shots. Mitchell, a former amateur star,
sits on the precipice of finally making good on his
vast potential.
The Willow Creek Open is the 10th of 24
scheduled events on the 2013 eGolf Tour schedule, and
is being contested this week at Willow Creek Country
Club in High Point, NC.
Mitchell’s week has been a study in consistency, with
11 birdies and 25 pars through 36 holes of play,
leading to rounds of 66-67—133 for his 11-under
total.
After finishing his opening round with three
consecutive birdies for a 6-under 66, Mitchell picked
up right where he left off on day two, carding five
birdies for a second-round 67 – including two of his
last three holes, Nos. 7 and 9 (his 16th
and 18th).
“I got off to a terrible start putting, but started
laughing and told myself not to get too upset,” said
Mitchell, 26. “Watching the basketball last night, I
was reminded that Kobe (Bryant) might get off to a bad
start, but he just continues to shoot his way through
it, so that’s what I did. I was happy to finish strong
again and pull it out down the stretch.”
The 2009 U.S. Walker Cup team member has been
competing on the eGolf Tour full-time since 2010,
notching six top-5 finishes along the way. The former
University of Georgia star has four top-20 finishes
thus far in 2013, including a season-best T5 effort at
the season-opening Palmetto Hall Championship.
“I’ve been knocking at the door, and knocking at the
door, and trying to do the things it takes to win,” he
said. “Winning just happens. All you can do is play
the best you can, and hit the best shot you can at
that time. You can’t do much more after that.”
Entering the week with seven tournaments under his
belt, the uber-talented Mitchell had been scratching
his opening-round head, having posted just one score
under par in the first round of any eGolf Tour event
on the year (67, Championship at Ballantyne Country
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Clark
consults legal counsel after anchoring ban |
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FORT WORTH, Texas
– Disappointed as he was by the news earlier in
the day that the USGA and R&A would go forward
with efforts to ban anchoring as of 2016,
Tim Clark wasn’t all that
surprised.
“If there really
was a ‘comment period,’ we all know it was all
smoke and mirrors," said Clark, standing on the
putting green at Colonial Country Club, site of
this week's Crowne Plaza Invitational. "Their
minds were made up.”
Clark confirmed
news that probably won’t come as a surprise to
officials at the PGA Tour, U.S. Golf Association
and R&A.
“We do have
legal counsel,” he said. “We’re going to explore
our options. We’re not going to just roll over
and accept this.” - Continue reading....... |
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Irwin won't let his age be barrier
to competing
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Hale Irwin won’t
stand down. He just won’t, doesn’t believe in
it.
“I think there’s
a lot of things that I’m not ready to give up,
one of which is something that has been so, so
good to me,” Irwin said.
“Golf has not
been my life, my family has been my life This
has been an addition to that and I’m not ready
to give it up. It still tastes pretty darn
good.”
List any
competitor you admire, baseball’s Bob Gibson,
football’s Larry Wilson, hockey’s Brian Sutter …
they have nothing on Irwin. In the theater of
golf, he is the ancient warrior, the unyielding
grinder.
He is not deep
into a conversation about the game’s “greatest
player,” not in the context Tiger Woods, Jack
Nicklaus or Ben Hogan might be. But when the
conversation pertains to the game’s greatest
competitor, he is in the front row.
He had a PGA Tour career
that included 20 victories and three U.S. Open
titles. His last Open came in 1990 at Medinah.
He was 45 years old, still the oldest to ever
win the national championship. His PGA Tour
career was somewhat overshadowed by his
environment, one that included the likes of
Nicklaus, Tom Watson, Gary Player, Lee Trevino
and others. It was a Tour career that, in
midstream today, might make Irwin a household
name.
He transitioned into the
senior set like no other player before him. In
the mid-1990s, the Champions Tour still was
somewhat of a traveling salvation show, a place
where PGA Tour players could relax and wind
down. Irwin doesn’t wind down, he winds up. -
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