Purdue's August Kim
(Purdue Athletics Photo)
Editors Note: Story by Judy Anderson of WWGA
DAYTON, OH (June 23, 2016) -- Despite a brief rain
delay, all scheduled matches were completed at the
Women’s Western Golf Association’s 116th National
Amateur Championship at Dayton Country Club in
Dayton, Ohio. Those players in Championship Flight
played two rounds while all the other flights played one
round.
In the morning round, Haylee Harford defeated
defending champion Chakansim (Fai) Khamborn 1 up.
Harford defeated last year’s semifinalist Molly Skapik in
yesterday’s match. Harford, a resident of Leavittsburg,
Ohio, attends Furman University whose team made it to
the Final 24 teams at the recent NCAA Women’s Golf
Division I Championship. Skapik played in an AJGA
tournament at the Furman University Golf Course when
she was a sophomore in high school and decided that
Furman was where she wanted to play college golf. She
won her state high school golf title twice, once as a
freshman, and once as a senior and won the Ohio
Women’s Amateur Championship in 2015.
Meanhwhile Lydia Gumm, the finalist at the WWGA
2015 National Amateur Championship, defeated Kylie
Raines, Dublin, Ohio, a student at the University of
Indianapolis. Gumm, a Radcliff, Kentucky resident,
plays for Florida State University and was named All-
ACC first team for 2015-2016. As a junior golfer, she
was named Miss Kentucky State Golfer five times.
Gumm defeated Hayford on the 19th hole in the
afternoon match. Gumm said that this was her most
difficult match so far as she was 3 down after five holes
before Gumm fought back to being all square after
birdies on holes 11 and 12.
Tomorrow Gumm will face Mikhaela Fortuna, a 15-
year-old from the Philippines. In other Championship
flight matches, Sophia Schubert, Oak Ridge, Tennessee
who attends the University of Texas, will face Texas
A&M student Maddie Szeryk, who hails from Ontario,
Canada. Jillian Hollis, Rocky River, Ohio, will face Grace
St-Germain, Orleans, Ontario. Jill just completed her
freshman year at the University of Georgia which was
granted the distinction as having the best Freshman
Class by Golfstat. In the last match, Kelly Whaley, who
hales from Farmington, Connecticut, and plays for the
University of North Carolina, will play St. Augustine,
Florida resident August Kim, who attends Purdue
University.
In other flights, Oakwood player Ellie Cronin lost to
Kelly Anderson, Wheaton, Illinois, on the 24th hole.
Alyssa Burritt, Dayton, defeated Kasey Nielsen, Kent,
Ohio, 4&2. Madison Wolters, Centerville, lost her match
to Jacqueline Setas, East Lansing, Michigan.
Tomorrow the play for all flights will commence
starting at 7 a.m. The Championship Flight will play a
second afternoon round.
ABOUT THE
Women's Western Amateur
Held without interruption since its inception in 1901, the Women's Western Amateur is among the oldest annual championships in women's amateur golf. Each year, it attracts many of the top amateur and collegiate golfers in the world. The list of past champions spans more than a century, from legendary stars Patty Berg (1938) and Louise Suggs (1946, 1947) to modern standouts like Brittany Lang (2003), Stacy Lewis (2006) and Ariya Jutanugarn (2012).
ENTRY INFORMATION
The Women's Western Amateur is open to amateur
women who have an up-to-date 18-hole
handicap index
that does not exceed 5.4 under the World Handicap
System. The championship begins with 36 holes of stroke-
play qualifying, after which the field is cut to
the low 32
players for match play. In the event of a tie for the
32nd position, a sudden-elimination playoff
will determine
the final match play qualifiers. Five rounds of 18-hole
matches will decide the Women's
Western Amateur
champion.
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