Radnor High senior Brynn Walker and Council Rock North
senior Madelein Herr settled for a 1-over 73 at the Streamsong Resort’s Blue
Course Sunday in the second round of qualifying for the U.S. Women’s Amateur
Four-Ball Championship.
The good news, though, is Team WalkHerr finished in a tie
for 19th at 3-under 141 to easily grab one of the 32 berths in match
play, which gets under way Monday morning. Walker and Herr will square off
against a team of Atlanta area teens, Madison Barnett and Amanda Doherty in a
first-round match at 9:24 a.m. Barnett and Doherty were one of three groups
tied for fourth in qualifying with rounds of 68 and 69 for a 7-under 137 total.
Walker, a Penn State recruit, and the Penn State-bound Herr
had opened with a 4-under 68 Saturday over the 6,216-yard, par-72 Streamsong
Blue layout, a Tom Doak design. From afar, their second round looks like one of
those days when the putts would just not fall as they had a birdie at the
third, bogeys at 11 and 16 and 15 pars.
They would have had a tough time contending for medalist
honors in any event as the Philippines duo of Pauline Del Rosario and Princess
Mary Superal rattled off a second consecutive 6-under 66 to top the qualifying
with a 12-under 132 total.
Del Rosario, a Kansas recruit, and Superal, the 2014 UJ.S.
Girls’ Junior champion who plans to turn professional later this year, had six
birdies and no bogeys.
Kristen Gillman, the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion from
Austin, Texas, and Sierra Brooks, the 2015 U.S. Women’s Amateur runnerup from
Sorrento, Fla., added a second-round 69 to their opening-round 65 to finish
second at 10-under 134.
Two of the teams that Walker and Herr got by in their run to
the semifinals in the inaugural Four-Ball at Bandon Dunes in Oregon a year ago
were among a group tied for ninth at 5-under 139. They are Brooke Seay of
Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. and Carolyn Zhao of San Diego and four-time U.S.
Mid-Amateur champion and eight-time Philadelphia Women’s Amateur champion
Meghan Stasi and Dawn Woodard.
Meanwhile, the team of Merion Golf Club’s Michael McDermott
and Huntingdon Valley Country Club’s Jeff Osberg failed to make it into match
play at the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball being held at Winged Foot Golf Club in
Mamaroneck, N.Y.
The formidable combination of the Philadelphia area’s two
top mid-amateur players just couldn’t get it going at Winged Foot. McDermott
and Osberg carded a 3-over 73 over Winged Foot’s West Course, site of five U.S.
Opens, most recently Australian Geoff Ogilvy’s 2006 victory. That gave them a
1-over 141 total. Six teams are going to battle it out for the last two berths
in match play after they finished at 3-under 137.
McDermott, a two-time BMW Philadelphia Amateur champion, and
Osberg, the 2015 Philly Amateur winner, had six bogeys and three birdies
Sunday.
Medalist honors went to the Scranton-area duo of Brandon
Matthews and Patrick Ross, who went 7-under 63 on the 7,033-yard, par-70 West
Course, matching the 7-under 63 they put up on the 6,728-yard, par-70 East
Course Saturday.
That gave Matthews, who recently wrapped up one of the
finest careers in the history of Temple golf, and his former Owls teammate Ross
a record-breaking 14-under 126 total. They had eight birdies against just one
bogey and finished with a flourish with birdies on 16, 17 and 18.
Defending champions Nathan Smith, the four-time U.S.
Mid-Amateur champion from Pittsburgh, and Todd White of Spartanburg, S.C.
earned a spot in match play, finishing in a tie for 16th at 5-under
135.
Another Golf Association of Philadelphia entry, Matthew
Finger of DuPont Country Club and Michael Korcuba of Medford Village Country
Club, advanced to match play with a masterful 8-under 62 on the East Course
Sunday that enabled them to finish in a tie for 14th at 6-under 134.
The pair of David Liotta of West Chester and P. Chet Walsh
of Wayne added a 75 on the West Course to their opening-round 72 to finish tied
for 115th at 7-over 147 and failed to advance to match play.
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