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Sunday, January 12, 2020

Doherty again rallies past Pano to repeat in The Sally


   Amanda Doherty, a senior from Brookhaven, Ga., was the veteran among a group of talented youngsters at Florida State when she finished fourth in the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship last spring, helping the Seminoles finish as the runnerup in the team standings behind Wake Forest.
   Florida State finished ahead of eventual national champion Duke at the ACC Championship and did it again when it was the runnerup to Vanderbilt in the team chase at the NCAA Auburn Regional, five shots ahead of the Blue Devils. Doherty again led the way, finishing in a tie for sixth place.
   The Seminoles finally ran out of gas in the NCAA Championship at The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark., failing to make it into match play while their ACC rivals, Duke and Wake Forest, made it to the Final Match, the Blue Devils defeating the Demon Deacons for the title.
   You could see the spring run coming for Doherty and Florida State when she captured The Sally, the South Atlantic Amateur Championship, a year ago. Well, Saturday at Oceanside Country Club in Ormond Beach, Fla., the home of the tradition-rich stop on the unofficial Orange Blossom Tour, Doherty did it again.
   Doherty made up a four-shot deficit to South Florida teen phenom Alexa Pano with a sparkling 1-under-par 71, the best round of the day in winds gusting up to 30 mph, that gave her a four-shot victory and a second straight Sally title.
   Pano, a 15-year-old from Lake Worth, Fla. and No. 22 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), looked like she was going to be tough to catch. She had opened with a 4-under 68, one shot better than Doherty’s opening-round 69, and added a 1-under 71 and an even-par 72 to open up a four-shot lead over Doherty.
   Doherty fell back a little with a 3-over 75 in the second round before bouncing back with a 1-under 71 in Friday’s third round. Her 1-under 71 in Saturday’s final round gave her a 2-under 286 total as she was the only player to finish under par for four rounds.
   Pano, meanwhile, struggled in the final round with a 79, but still held onto second place with a 2-over 290. It’s the second straight year Pano has finished as the runnerup at Oceanside to Doherty, who fired a 3-under 69 in the final round to overtake Pano a year ago.
   Doherty’s senior season at Florida State got a little tougher in the midseason break as Frida Kinhult, a Swede who was ranked in the top five in the Women’s WAGR, decided to turn pro midway through her sophomore season.
   But the Seminoles still have another sophomore Swede, Beatrice Wallin, who will return to Tallahassee for the spring portion of the college season. And they still have a certain two-time winner of The Sally back in the lineup, a veteran of a lot of college battles, in the lineup and Amanda Doherty’s presence counts for a lot.
   By finishing second, Pano did beat the 2018 winner of The Sally, Wake Forest junior Emilia Migliaccio of Cary, N.C. and No. 7 in the Women’s WAGR by five shots. Migliaccio grabbed the opening-round lead Wednesday with a sizzling 5-under 67, the best round surrendered by the Oceanside layout in The Sally.
   Migliaccio, who won the ACC individual title and played a big part in the bringing the Demon Deacons to the brink of a national championship last spring, struggled in the second round with a 77 and trailed Pano by six shots after bouncing back with a 1-over 73 in the third round.
   Migliaccio, however, never recovered from a triple bogey on the first hole and closed with a 6-over 78 in Saturday’s final round to finish alone in third place at 7-over 295.
   Migliaccio and Pano were among the 12 players invited to a practice session last month at Loblolly in Hobe Sound, Fla. as candidates for the U.S. Curtis Cup team which will travel across the pond to take on Great Britain & Ireland at The Conwy Golf Club in Caernarvonshire, Wales beginning June 12.
   Migliaccio represented the United States quite ably last summer when she won the gold medal in individual women’s competition in the Pan-American Games in Lima, Peru. Oh yeah, and she won another gold, teaming with Rose Zhang, another Curtis Cup candidate, Stewart Hagestad, winner of the 2016 U.S. Mid-Amateur Championship at Stonewall, and Brandon Wu, who helped Stanford capture the NCAA men’s crown last spring, to win the mixed team competition.
   At No. 7, Migliaccio is the highest-rated American in the Women’s WAGR, which will probably make her an automatic pick for the U.S. Curtis Cup team. The top three Americans in the Women’s WAGR as of April 8 will make captain Sarah Ingram’s team.
   Pano has taken advantage of the competitive opportunities the Orange Blossom Tour presents for several years now. But those opportunities might be even more important to her this year since Pano won’t have as many chances to impress Captain Ingram as the top collegiate U.S. Curtis Cup candidates will.
   A lot of the college players will be headed back to campus this week. I’m guessing Pano will defend her title in the next stop on the Orange Blossom Tour, the Ione D. Jones/Doherty Women’s Amateur, a match-play event which tees off with qualifying Monday at Coral Ridge Country Club in Fort Lauderdale.
   Pano has mentioned in the past how few opportunities there are for junior players to get some match-play experience, one of the reasons she likes to play in the Jones/Doherty. She’s hoping that match-play experience will come in handy this spring in Wales.
   The second-best round of the day in Saturday’s final round was the even-par 72 turned in by another teen phenom, Paris Hilinksi, the California Kid from La Quinta who teed it up in the U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Charleston and made it into the match-play bracket in the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss. as a 16-year-old in 2019.
    Hilinski’s solid showing in the final round enabled her to finish alone in fourth place, a shot behind Migliaccio at 8-over 296.
   Speaking of phenoms, Canadian Michelle Liu, who teed it up in the LPGA Tour’s Canadian Pacific Women’s Open last summer as a 12-year-old, was one of four players who finished in a tie for fifth place at 12-over 300, four shots behind Hilinski.
   Liu’s best round was a 1-under 71 in Wednesday’s first round and she closed with a 5-over 77.
Also in that group was Bailey Shoemaker of West Edmeston, N.Y., who won her third straight New York State Girls’ Junior Championship at age 14 last summer. The kid fired a 2-under 70 in Thursday’s second round and matched par in third round with a 72 before struggling to a 79 in the final round Saturday.
   Therese Warner of Kennewick, Wash., coming off a solid fall campaign as a freshman at Arizona, also landed among the group at 300. Warner moved up the leaderboard with a 2-under 70 in Friday’s third round before closing with a 79.
   Rounding out the quartet tied for fifth place was Kaitlyn Schroeder, the reigning Florida State Golf Association Junior Girls champion from Jacksonville. Schroeder was steady all week, opening with a pair of 74s and adding a 5-over 77 in Friday’s third round before closing with a solid 3-over 75 in Saturday’s tough conditions.
   Another teen phenom from California, Amari Avery of Riverside, shared ninth place with Tsai-Ching Tseng at 13-over 301.
   Avery teamed with Pano to reach the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship last spring at Timuquana Country Club in Jacksonville and won the California Women’s Amateur Championship last summer at age 15.
   Avery’s best round was a 1-under 71 in Friday’s third round before she closed with a 78.
    Pretty sure Tseng is the Tulsa sophomore from Taiwan who appears on the Hurricane roster as Lorena Tseng and earned an individual bid to the NCAA Norman Regional as a freshman last spring. Tseng also finished up with a 78.
   Gianna Clemente, the Warren, Ohio phenom who became the third youngest player to tee it up in a U.S. Women’s Amateur as an 11-year-old last summer, finished alone in 28th place at 20-over 308 after a final-round 77.
   Clemente finished in a tie for fifth in last summer’s Pennsylvania Junior Girls’ Championship at Hershey Country Club’s East Course. She was playing out of Avalon at Buhl Park in Sharon, just across the Ohio-Pennsylvania border from Warren.
   Penn State’s Sarah Willis, a sophomore out of Eaton, Ohio, took a trip to Florida for The Sally and finished among the group tied for 34th place at 313. The best round for Willis was a 3-over 75 in Friday’s third round before she closed with an 80.
   Also playing among all those kids was Merion Golf Club’s Liz Haines, the 70-something who was the runnerup in the 2004 U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur Championship.
   Haines’ best round was the 83 she posted in the first round and she closed with a 90 to finish in the group tied for 83rd place at 343. Still competing, though, which is pretty impressive all by itself.
   In the aftermath of last week’s Harder Hall Invitational, there were some rumblings that that venerable stop on the Orange Blossom Tour might not continue, although there is still some hope.
   The Sally went to great pains to make sure its event remains strong, locking in this week on the calendar to make sure it can lure some of the top college players before the spring semester starts up. There were also Women’s WAGR points up for grabs at The Sally.
   The event certainly drew a top-notch field to Ormond Beach last week and none were better than Doherty.

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