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Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Walker will get a second chance to tee it up in ShopRite LPGA Classic


   It is an older and wiser Brynn Walker who will have a starting time when the ShopRite LPGA Classic tees off Friday at the Seaview Hotel & Golf Club’s Bay Course in Galloway Township, N.J., across the bay from Atlantic City.
   The North Carolina senior matched par on the Bay Course in Monday’s open qualifier for the annual LPGA stop at the Jersey Shore, then bested Rachel Drummond of England on the second hole of a playoff to earn a spot in the field for the first time since the week before she graduated from Radnor High in 2016.
   It was the sixth time that Walker has tried to qualify for the ShopRite and early on tournament officials exempted her into the Monday open qualifier, allowing her to bypass the Sunday amateur qualifier.
   The Sunday amateur qualifier, dubbed the Battle on the Bay, was won by Rolling Green Golf Club’s 13-year-old phenom Sydney Yermish, who carded a 2-over 73 and earned the opportunity to play in Monday’s open qualifier. More on her later.
   Australian Eunice Kim, who plays on the Symetra Tour, earned the other ticket into the field for the ShopRite by claiming medalist honors with a 1-under 70.
   Walker and Drummond each carded an even-par 71 and headed out to the 10th hole for a playoff. Both players made bogey to extend the playoff. Walker shrugged off the temporary setback.
   “I’ve played enough golf to know not to let mistakes like that bother me,” Walker, winner of the 2014 and 2015 PIAA Class AAA crowns at Radnor, told The Press of Atlantic City. “You just deal with it and move on.”
   Walker then parred the 18th hole to finish the playoff.
   Walker, who plays out of St. Davids Golf Club, is a much more experienced player than the 18-year-old kid who teed it up in the ShopRite in 2016. She and her U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship partner Madelein Herr, a Council Rock North standout, had just completed a run to the quarterfinals at the Streamsong Resort’s Blue Course.
   But other than that, there weren’t a whole lot of competitive opportunities for a high school senior that spring. This year Walker will be coming off the spring portion of her junior season at North Carolina. It ended in disappointing fashion for the Tar Heels as they failed to advance out of the NCAA East Lansing Regional with a 13th-place finish, but Walker has already played a lot of golf in high-leverage situations – that’s a term the baseball guys use these days when they bring in a reliever with guys on base on the road -- in 2019.
   I’ve had a few parents of college golfers tell me that their junior year is the most demanding academically, so Walker is probably happy to have that behind her.
   Three years ago, Walker started on the back nine at Seaview’s Bay Course and was 9-over after six holes and promptly rattled off four straight birdies in a pretty remarkable display of resilience for a high school kid playing in an LPGA event for the first time.
   Walker carded a roller-coaster ride of an 80 in that opening round before adding a 4-over 75 in the second round for a 13-over 155 total that missed the cut.
   Before this spring’s NCAA regional, Walker put two pretty good rounds together in a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier at Forsgate Country Club’s Banks Course. Her 3-over 145 total didn’t get her to last week’s National Open at the Country Club of Charleston, but it was a pretty solid showing.
   Yermish also teed it up at Forsgate. Her appearance in the U.S. Women’s Open qualifier came on the heels of an ultimately disappointing showing in the Drive, Chip & Putt National Finals at Augusta National Golf Club the Sunday before the Masters.
   Yermish, competing in the Girls 12-13 age group, bombed her drive and won that portion of the competition, but fell out of contention with a poor chip and was in the middle of the pack in the putting. Yermish finished with 17 points to finish fifth.
   But she was on television on the first Sunday of April at Augusta National, so it’s hard to judge the whole experience as anything but a success.
   After surprising probably everybody but herself with her 2-over 73 in Sunday’s amateur qualifier at the Bay Course, Yermish carded a 10-over 81 in Monday’s open qualifier to finish in a tie for 24th in a field populated by pros and top college players.
   Yermish is going to be tough competing against girls her age this summer. After earning a trip to the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship last summer, Yermish has done nothing but keep improving.
   Just missing out on the playoff involving Walker and Drummond in Monday’s open qualifier was  Sam Wagner, the Easton native and former Florida standout. Wagner finished fourth with a 1-over 72.
   Two years ago Wagner earned medalist honors in a U.S. Women’s Open qualifier at Hidden Creek Golf Club in Egg Harbor Township, N.J. and promptly turned pro. She made her pro debut in the U.S. Women’s Open at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, N.J.
   Wagner has struggled as a fledgling pro. She was coming off a tie for 47th at 1-under 212 in the Valley Forge Invitational, the Symetra Tour event at Raven’s Claw Golf Club in Limerick Township that wrapped up Sunday. I’m planning to do a little more extensive look back at the second playing of the Valley Forge Invitational in a post later this week
   It was a homecoming at Seaview for Baltimore Country Club teaching pro Joanna Coe, a Mays Landing, N.J. native and Oakcrest High School product. Coe finished in a tie for eighth with a 3-over 74.
   It’s been a pretty successful 2019 for Coe, who got it started with a victory in the PGA Women’s Stroke Play Championship in Florida early in the year. She was the highest female finisher in the PGA Professional Championship at Belfair in Bluffton, S.C. in April. Coe and Overbrook Golf Club assistant pro Ashley Grier were the first women ever to play four rounds in the PGA Professional Championship.
   Coe will tee it up later this month in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship, an LPGA major, at Hazeltine National Golf Club in Chaska, Minn. It is the second straight appearance in the KPMG Women’s PGA Championship for Coe.
   The KPMG Women’s PGA Championship comes to the Philadelphia area next year when it is staged at Aronimink Golf Club, the Donald Ross gem in Newtown Square.
   Also in the group tied for eighth at 3-over 74 was Walker’s old scholastic rival, Jackie Rogowicz, who wrapped up an outstanding career at Penn State this spring. Rogowicz was a two-time District One champion at Pennsbury.
   Rogowicz and Coe earned the two tickets into the ShopRite field in the open Monday qualifier a year ago.

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