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  2009 AMATEUR CHAMPIONSHIP 

94th Amateur Championship Information
Date:

  June 1 - 5, 200

2009 Field of Contestants
Location:

  Albany, Georgia

Pairings
Host Club:

  Stonebridge Golf and Country Club

Qualifying Round Results
 

Match Play Results

 

 Photos of Champion,  Flight Winners & Finalists

THOMPSON WINS SOUTHERN

 

In a generational battle, 45 year old Virginia Derby Grimes battled 14 year old Alexis Thompson to all square after the first 18 holes of the 94th Women’s Southern Amateur Championship.  Thompson started strong by making birdies on the first two holes.  Grimes came back by winning both par 3 holes on the front.  Then Thompson threw in an eagle on the Par 4 eighth hole and they made the turn with Thompson being 1 up.

 

On the back nine, Grimes evened up the match on the Par 3 twelfth with a birdie but Thompson answered with 2 birdies on thirteen and fourteen to go back to 2 up.  Grimes then won the next two holes to square the match again.

 

At the continuation of the match, Thompson again birdied the first two holes to take a quick command of the match but Grimes birdied the third hole to keep it close.  It was the veteran Grimes who failed to capitalize on some close approach shots and the nine closed with Thompson at 1 up.  Grimes then birdied the tough eleventh hole to square up the match but that was the last hole she would win.

 

Thompson then birdied the par 3 twelfth to regain the lead, followed with birdies on thirteen and fourteen and closed out the match on fifteen 4&3.
 

YOUTH VERSUS EXPERIENCE

AT WOMEN’S SOUTHERN
 (June 4, 2009  10:00 pm update)

 

Alexis Thompson got out to a quick lead on the first hole today and built it to 3 up after the tenth hole but struggled with 2 bogeys on the back.  She finally put away Sara Beth Davis on hole 17 with a birdie to win 2 & 1 to reach her first WSGA Amateur finals. 

 

Waiting for her is Virginia Derby Grimes who is playing in her fifth WSGA final having won two of them.  Grimes built her lead early and closed out the University of Alabama golfer, Brooke Pancake, 4&3.


Alexis Thompson
Virginia Derby Grimes

Brooke Pancake & Sara Beth Davis

 
 

SEMI-FINALS SET AT SOUTHERN AMATEUR
 (June 4, 2009 1:30 pm update)

  

Playing good golf was not enough in the quarter-finals at the 94th Women’s Southern Amateur.  An early morning rain storm softened up the greens and the golfers took full advantage as birdies won most holes.  Junior phenom Alexis Thompson jumped out early and by the turn had a 4 up lead.  She maintained that lead to win 4 & 3 on the 15th hole.

 

Sara Beth Davis played steady to lead her match early and held on to defeat Mississippi State’s Gina Sharp 2&1.  Brooke Pancake went on a birdie binge in the middle of the match to close out University of Arkansas golfer, Kristin Ingram.  Virginia Derby Grimes continued her steady play to close out Corinna Rees, also from the University of Arkansas.

 

The semi-finals of the Championship flight will be held this afternoon.  Click link in upper right hand corner for current match play results!

Alexis Thompson
Sara Beth Davis
Brooke Pancake
Virginia Derby Grimes

For latest Match Play Results, please click on the link in the upper right hand corner.

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GOCKEL WINS IN EXTRA HOLES

THOMPSON CONTINUES TO DOMINATE
 (June 3, 2009  8:00 pm update)

 It took Tournament Medalist, Meghan Gockel twenty-two holes to put away Senior Medalist Carolyn Creekmore.  Gockel evened the match on the 17th hole and 4 holes later won when Creekmore missed her putt. 

 

Alexis Thompson, the current USGA Junior Girls Champion, hindered by a head cold, still managed to dominate Auburn Assistant Golf Coach Courtney Trimble 7 and 5.  Brooke Pancake from University of Alabama knocked out Florida Mid-Am Amelia Lewis 4 & 3.

 

The University of Arkansas placed two golfers in the quarterfinals hoping to follow the two previous WSGA Champions, Stacy Lewis and Lucy Nunn.  Kristin Ingram knocked out former professional golfer Wendy Golden-Patterson 4 & 3 and Corrina Rees bested Megan Vaughn in a tough battle between University of Arkansas and University of Arkansas-Little Rock 1 up.

 

Sara Beth Davis, a freshman to be at Texas A&M went an extra hole to put away Ole Miss golfer Sara Grantham and Mississippi State golfer Gina Sharp posted her win over local junior favorite Kelly Pearce.

 

The last quarterfinalist is Virginia Derby Grimes, former USGA Mid-Am Champion and two-time WSGA Champion.  Grimes was a finalist in 2007 and is the last entrant over college age with an opportunity to win this year.  She defeated fellow Mid-Am Dawn Woodard 1 up.

 

Alei Mitchell of Waycross Georgia aced the 16th hole enroute to her victory over Leslie Henry in Second Flight.

 

Match Play Brackets
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For more information on the 2009 Amateur Championship,
please contact Becky Mitchell
 entry@womens-southerngolfassociation.org
 
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