Mia Cho (AmateurGolf.com Photo)
Amanda Gyllner of Sweden and Mia Cho of Carmichael, Calif., were the only two golfers to shoot under par en route to earning medalist honors in the Championship Division at the 2025 San Francisco Women's Championship stroke play qualifying round at Lincoln Park Golf Course.
Gyllner and Cho shot impressive rounds of 1-under 69 on a day when rainy and windy conditions tested the golfers.
"When I was on the first tee, I knew it would be rough with the rain and the wind," Gyllner said.
Gyllner is from Sweden and visiting her sister, Rebecca, a junior on the golf team at San Jose State. Rebecca is a teammate of Nicola Kaminski, who won the 2024 San Francisco City Women's Championship.
Rebecca is also Amanda's caddie for the championship.
"We just wanted to take it one shot at a time and play solid and consistent," Gyllner said.
Gyllner added, "It’s awesome for me to play outside in March." She recorded three birdies and two bogeys, with all the birdies coming on the back nine.
Similar to Gyllner, Cho recorded four birdies and three bogeys in the round.
"I feel like today was a lot of bipolar golf," Cho said. "At the start, I thought if I got a par, I would be fine."
Even after earning co-medalist honors, Cho thought she left some scoring out there today.
"I did pretty good," Cho said. "But I left a lot of putts out there that I could have made. I am disappointed about that."
This is a tournament that Cho has a lot of experience in and is familiar with as a California native.
"It’s really nice," Cho said about earning co-medalist honors. "I haven’t had a tournament, so I zeroed in on this one because I have played it since I was really young."
Cho added, "I have always wanted to win this thing."
Taylor Baker and Lexi Lowe finished T3 at 1-over, and 2024 medalist Nicole Iniakov, Wa Yeung Tong, and Isabelle Duan finished T5 at 2-over.
In the Senior Division, Kate Zhang earned medalist honors at 16-over by three shots over Melissa Spencer.
Starting Saturday, the top 32 competitors will be placed into a match-play bracket and take on TPC Harding Park. They will be divided into two groups of sixteen golfers.
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TOUR
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*An NCGA Points Tournament*
Open to the first
84 entries received;
Championship and Senior Divisions. No
handicap index is required.
Qualifying consists of one 18-hole stroke play round
on Fri Mar
14, after which the lowest 16 scorers will be seeded
accordingly in
the Women's Championship Flight. Contestants with
the 17th through 32nd
lowest scores will be seeded accordingly in the Juli
Inkster Flight.
For the Senior division, participants must have an
age of 50 or older as of the first day
of the tournament. Qualifying will consist of one 18-
hole stroke play round, from which
the low 8 scores will advance to the Women’s Senior
Championship Flight.
Individual scores will determine seeding for match
play.
In the event of a playoff to qualify for
match
play, a player must be
present in order to retain his right to participate in
the playoff.
Stroke play qualifying will
be held at Lincoln Park, as will the first
match play round in the Senior
Flight. All other
match play rounds will be held at TPC Harding
Park.
Match play is scheduled for Sat-Sun Mar 15-16, with
the semis and finals on Sat-Sun Mar 22-
23. For seniors, there will be no match play round on
Sat Mar 15.
A schedule of all dates of
play can be found on the tournament website
sfgolfchampionship.com.
WITHDRAWALS AND REFUND POLICY
Players needing to withdraw should do so by filling
out the form at
sfgolfchampionship.com/contact/
. Players withdrawing
before the
entry deadline of
February 18 will receive a
refund of their entry fee minus
$50.
There will be no refunds after the entry
deadline.
CART POLICY
The use of carts is prohibited for players and caddies
in the Women’s Championship and Inkster Flights
(Appendix I – Local Rule Applies)
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