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Monday, July 22, 2019

Brinker, Yao put themselves in position to make match play in U.S. Girls' Junior Championship


   Archmere Academy senior Phoebe Brinker, increasingly comfortable on the national stage, fired a solid 2-under-par 70 in the opening round of qualifying for match play in the U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship Monday at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, Wis.
   Brinker, coming off a tie for 13th place in the Girls Junior PGA Championship at the Keney Park Golf Course in Windsor, Conn., started on the back nine Monday and made birdies at the 14th, 18th and third holes to get it to 3-under before recording her only bogey of the day at the ninth hole.
   The top 64 finishers following Tuesday’s second round of qualifying will advance to match play, which gets under way Wednesday.
   And Brinker, who claimed her third DIAA crown at Cripple Creek Country Club in May, put herself in very good position to be one of those match-play participants. She reached match play in the U.S. Girls’ Junior at year ago at the Poppy Hills Golf Course on northern California’s Monterey Peninsula and fell in the opening round, suffering a tough 2-up decision at hands of Valery Plata of Colombia, who went on to reach the quarterfinals.
   Plata, coming off a solid freshman season at Michigan State, was one of five players tied for fifth after carding a 3-under 69 Monday.
   Brinker claimed medalist honors in a U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifier last week with a 68 at Thorney Lea Golf Club in Brockton, Mass. That means she’ll be headed for Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss. for another big national tournament when the U.S. Women’s Amateur tees off Aug. 5.
   Recent Conestoga High graduate Samantha Yao also put herself in good position to earn a spot in match play as she rallied with birdies on her last three holes for a 1-over 73 that left her among the group tied for 28th place.
   Yao, one of Pennsylvania’s top high school players each of the last three years, started on the back nine Monday and made bogeys at the 10th, 17th, third and sixth holes to stand at 4-over for her round. Yao, who will join the Dartmouth program later this summer, then birdied the seventh, eighth and ninth holes to finish with a flourish.
   Yao was the medalist with a 72 in a Golf Association of Philadelphia-administered qualifier for the U.S. Girls’ Junior at the Steel Club. Yao also played four rounds in the Girls Junior PGA Championship at Keney Park.
   A year ago, Californian Yealimi Noh completed the toughest double in girls junior golf by adding a victory in the U.S. Girls’ Junior at Poppy Hills to the Girls Junior PGA Championship she had won a couple of weeks earlier at the Kearney Hill Golf Links in Lexington, Ky.
   Yuka Saso, the talented 18-year-old from the Philippines, is making noises like she plans to duplicate Noh’s feat from a year ago. Saso, coming off an impressive two-shot victory at Keney Park, fired a women’s competitive course-record of 7-under 65 at SentryWorld Monday to take a three-shot lead after the opening round of qualifying for match play.
   Saso, No. 24 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), had nary a bogey on her card and seven birdies, including four straight on the eighth, ninth, 10th and 11th holes.
   It is Saso’s fourth U.S. Girls’ Junior appearance and she has never made it past the second round. But, as I noted in my posts on the Girls Junior PGA Championship, I remembered her well from her spectacular run as a 15-year-old to the semifinals of the 2016 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Rolling Green Golf Club.
   Three players are tied for second as each carded a solid 4-under 68.
   Sophia Bae, a 15-year-old from Norwood, N.J., made a double bogey at the fourth hole and then went 6-under the rest of the way to finish at 4-under. Bae plans to join the powerhouse Duke program in the summer of 2021.
   Nicole Adam, a 17-year-old from Pinehurst, N.C., had a 4-under 32 on the front nine at SentryWorld on her way to a 68.
   Adam, who will join the North Carolina-Wilmington program in the summer of 2020, had plenty of support after qualifying for match play in last week’s North & South Women’s Amateur Championship at the Pinehurst Resort’s No. 2 Course.
   Adam gave the eventual champion, Southern California junior Gabriela Ruffels of Australia, all she wanted in a 3 and 1 setback in the opening round of match play.
   Rounding out the trio tied for second at 4-under was Lei Ye of China, who will join the Stanford program later this summer. Ye holed a 12-foot birdie putt on the 18th green to join the group at 68.
   Tower Hill junior Rylie Heflin of Avondale, another player who emerged from the Steel Club qualifier, carded a 78 and is among the group tied for 103rd.
   Episcopal Academy junior Lauren Jones, who plays out of Merion Golf Club, struggled to a 79 and is among the group tied for 117th. Jones, who led the Churchwomen to their second straight Inter-Ac League title this spring, also earned her ticket to SentryWorld at the Steel Club.
   Jones was joined at that figure by Caroline Wrigley, who claimed the PIAA Class AAA Championship as a senior at North Allegheny last fall. Wrigley, who added the Pennsylvania Junior Girls’ crown to her scholastic state title last month at Hershey Country Club’s East Course, will join the Furman program later this summer.
   One of the other players who emerged from the Steel Club qualifier, Virginie Ding of Hong Kong, was in the group tied for fifth at 3-under 69 along with Plata.
   The final Steel Club qualifier in the field, Jana Ni of China, posted a 3-over 75 that left her among the group tied for 66th.




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