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Saturday, January 12, 2019

Wake Forest's Migliaccio captures title in Harder Hall Invitational in playoff


   Wake Forest sophomore Emilia Migliaccio, the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Rookie of the Year during an outstanding freshman campaign in 2017-’18, appears ready for the spring portion of the 2018-’19 season as she captured the title in a playoff with Stanford recruit Angelina Ye in the 64th Harder Hall Women’s Invitational, which wrapped up Saturday at the Harder Hall Golf Club in Sebring, Fla.
   Migliaccio, coming off a strong fall campaign that included an impressive four-shot victory over a strong field in the Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational at the University of North Carolina’s Finley Golf Course in Chapel Hill, N.C., birdied the 72nd hole to catch Ye at 1-over 289 and then prevailed on the third hole of a playoff when Ye yanked a 5-iron shot out of bounds.
   Migliaccio of Cary, N.C. drilled a gap wedge from 117 yards away to three feet and converted the birdie try at the last to complete a 1-under-par 71 over a tough Harder Hall layout that yielded very few sub-par rounds in some typically windy and chilly South Florida January weather.
   Migliaccio, who has risen to No. 21 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking, was solid throughout, building a one-shot lead through 54 holes with a 1-over 73 in Wednesday’s opening round, an even-par 72 when the temperature plummeted and the winds came up in Thursday’s second round and a 1-over 73 in Friday’s third round.
   Ye had the best round of the tournament Saturday, making five birdies in a sparkling 4-under 68 that almost stole her the championship. Ye had matched Migliaccio’s opening-round 73, but struggled to a 78 in Thursday’s tough conditions before bouncing back with a 2-under 70 Friday that got her back into contention.
   Ye is a native of China who moved to South Florida to attend the IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla. She teamed with fellow teen Yuchon Chang of Chinese Taipei to reach the final of last year’s U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship before falling to the Colorado State pair of Katrina Prendergast and Ellen Secor, 1-up, at El Cabellero Country Club in Tarzana, Calif.
   Another teen phenom who is playing out of IMG in Bradenton these days, Annabell Fuller, a member of the Great Britain & Ireland Curtis Cup team last summer, shared third place with one of Migliaccio’s ACC rivals and a fellow North Carolinian, Anna Redding, a senior at Virginia from Concord, N.C., at 5-over 293, four shots behind the top two.
   Fuller finished up with a solid 1-over 73 Saturday. Her final assignment in GB&I’s 17-3 loss to a loaded U.S. team in the Curtis Cup Match at Quaker Ridge Golf Club was a singles match against Kristen Gillman, who would go on to win her second U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship later in the summer and will begin 2019 on the LPGA Tour. Fuller lost 5 and 4, but the experience a young player gains by taking on somebody of Gillman’s stature on an international stage is immeasurable.
   Redding had a share of the opening-round lead with an even-par 72 and finished up with a 2-over 74. She was the runnerup to Migliaccio in another of the Orange Blossom Tour circuit’s series of women’s amateur events, The Women’s South Atlantic Amateur Championship, better known as The Sally.
   The 2019 Sally tees off Wednesday at Oceanside Country Club in Ormond Beach, Fla, although Migliaccio won’t be able to defend her title as she has to hustle back to Wake Forest.
   Redding seems to save some of her best stuff for the Pinehurst Resort. She was a quarterfinalist in last summer’s North & South Women’s Amateur and is a tough customer at Pinehurst No. 2, the Donald Ross masterpiece which will host this summer’s U.S. Amateur.
   A couple of North Carolina Tar Heels teed it up in the Harder Hall, Mariana Ocano, a junior from St. Petersburg, Fla., and junior Brynn Walker, a two-time PIAA champion at Radnor High who plays out of St. Davids Golf Club.
   Ocano fired a 1-under 71 in the final round to get a share of seventh place with South Florida teen phenom Latanna Stone at 298. Stone, a 17-year-old from Valrico, Fla. who has committed to LSU, was one of the three co-leaders after the opening round at even-par 72, struggled a little in the middle two rounds, but again matched par in the final round with a bookend 72.
   Walker, trying to kick some rust off her game, was one of four players who finished tied for 13th at 307. After opening with a 75, Walker skied to an 80 in Thursday’s tough conditions before finishing up with a pair of 76s.
   Ocano and Walker have high hopes that the Tar Heels can return to the NCAA Championship this spring at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. after they came up just short of advancing out of last spring’s San Francisco Regional. North Carolina is No. 32 in the midseason rankings by Golfstat.
   Mixing it up with the youngsters at the Harder Hall was four-time U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur  champion Meghan Stasi, the 40-year-old South Jersey native who resides in Oakland Park, Fla. and won the Harder Hall in 2014.
   An eight-time winner of the Women’s Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Match-Play Championship, Stasi matched par in the final round with a 72 to finish alone in 12th at 306, a shot ahead of Walker and the three others tied for 13th.
   Stasi reached the quarterfinals of last fall’s U.S. Women’s Mid-Am before dropping a 3 and 2 decision to defending champion Kelsey Chugg at Norwood Hills Country Club in St. Louis.
   China’s Tuan-Yi Chiang, a junior at Baylor, finished alone in fifth place at 295, two shots behind Annabell Fuller and Redding. Chiang matched par in the final round with a 72.
   Yoon Min Han, a South Korean teen, was another shot behind Chiang in sixth place at 296. Han was one of the three co-leaders following the opening round when she fired a 72. She struggled a little in the middle rounds before finishing up with a bookend even-par 72.
   Annabell wasn’t the only Fuller in the field as older sister Samantha also earned a top-10 finish, ending up alone in ninth at 302, a shot behind Stone and Ocano.
   The 19-year-old Samantha Fuller once considered turning pro after high school before injuries slowed her journey. She plays at NAIA power Keiser University in West Palm Beach, Fla. and plans to head for UNLV and Division I golf at the end of the summer. She finished up with a 3-over 75.
   Sarah Bae, a native of South Korea who moved to Pinehurst, N.C. as a youngster, and Maria Donado, a freshman at the University of Alabama-Birmingham from Colombia, shared 10th place at 303, a shot behind Samantha Fuller. Bae finished up with a 76 while Donado carded a final-round 79.
   Joining Walker in the group tied for 13th at 307 were Ffion Tynan, a junior standout from Wales, Riley Smyth, a freshman teammate of Redding’s at Virginia and, like Miglicaccio, a native of Cary, N.C., and Sebring home girl Kendall Griffin, a sophomore at LSU who has been playing in the Harder Hall since she was 10.
   Tynan bounced back impressively from an opening-round 82 with an even-par 72, one of the better rounds in Thursday’s tough conditions. After a 2-over 74 in Friday’s third round, she finished up with a 79.
   Smyth finished with a solid 2-over 74 and Griffin posted a 4-over 76 in Saturday’s final round.
Kathy Glennon, the reigning Missouri Senior Women’s Amateur champion from Wildwood, Mo., was a four-shot winner of the Forever Forty-Nine Division with a 315 total. After stringing together consecutive 77s in the first three rounds, Glennon carded an 84 in Saturday’s final round.
   Diane Lang tried to rally with a final-round 77, but settled for runnerup honors at 319.
   Merion Golf Club’s ageless Liz Haines – she turned 70 at some point last year – finished 12th at 341. After a solid 80 in the third round, Haines struggled a little with a final-round 89.
   Elin Tynan won the Ben Roman Marge Burns Flight by eight shots with a 246 total. After rounds of 81 and 80, she finished up with an 85.
   Clate Aydlett and Becky Krakowski shared second place at 254. Aydlett had a final-round 84 and Krakowski caught her for second with a solid 80.
   Shannon Smith was a three-shot winner of the Ben Roman Tish Preuss Flight at 278 after a final-round 92. Shelly Barkei was the runnerup at 281 after  a final-round 94.




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