froggolf65
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Sounds like a bad ranking system if only 8/32 are playing the US Women’s Am.
TCU Golf 2021-2022
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JogginFrog
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Perhaps...but there are other things that may have been done poorly.
The biggest is scheduling the start on the west coast on the day following the Women's British Open. Eight ams played in that event, including the top 2 (Zhang, Lindblad) and #10 McGinty. None is in the U.S. Women's Am field. A shame that top-ranked ams had to choose one over the other.
One could also criticize a qualifying system that reserved only (edit: 25) slots for the top-ranked amateurs, which put the emphasis on local qualifiers. (Edit: But it says something that the top 25 are exempt from qualifying and only 6 of those are in the field)
Which leads into the third reason, which is that only 8 of the top 32 are American. Does that reflect a bad ranking system or a global game where national golf federations invest more in developing top youth than the U.S. does? Seems like it parallels an eyeball glance at the Golfstat college rankings. A number of int'l players may find the cost of a weeklong event in the States to be beyond their means, or they would rather play their own national/regional events--or just enjoy their families for the few weeks they are home from college. (Caitlyn Macnab hasn't had a single event posted in WAGR since the NCAAs.)
Finally, a lot of quality female ams are young--the average age of the field is under 20. So, the need for a parent to accompany minors raises the cost for those traveling internationally and domestically.
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JogginFrog
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Iqbal shoots +1 with 15 pars. She T45 with 16 others. Not bad, but work to do, especially to avoid a tough matchup in the round of 64. Then again, the 63rd seed won the whole thing last year.
Sabrina has a 7:33 (Pacific) tee time tomorrow, which should offer good conditions for scoring.
Update: Sabrina shoots 78 in round 2, which will probably not get her through to match play.
Sabrina has a 7:33 (Pacific) tee time tomorrow, which should offer good conditions for scoring.
Update: Sabrina shoots 78 in round 2, which will probably not get her through to match play.
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JogginFrog
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Filippo Celli continues to make the most of his summer break. He not only gets another start on the DP World (Euro) Tour this week in Northern Ireland, but he's rocking it at -7 (T3) through two rounds. There are 7 amateurs in the 132-player field; Filippo is the only one who will make the cut. (As an am, Filippo won't collect any prize-money, but the value of his current position is $85,000.)
It's an interesting dual event co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour, LPGA and Ladies European Tour. The men and women play concurrent tournaments over the same two courses for equivalent purses. Frogs Sanna Nuutinen and Angela Stanford are competing on the women's side. Angela will make the cut (T35 with one hole to play); she and Filippo connected for a social media pic.
Edit: Angela ended up missing the cut at T40--surprised to see how few made the cut. On the men's side, Johannes Veerman also MC'd at T39.
It's an interesting dual event co-sanctioned by the DP World Tour, LPGA and Ladies European Tour. The men and women play concurrent tournaments over the same two courses for equivalent purses. Frogs Sanna Nuutinen and Angela Stanford are competing on the women's side. Angela will make the cut (T35 with one hole to play); she and Filippo connected for a social media pic.
Edit: Angela ended up missing the cut at T40--surprised to see how few made the cut. On the men's side, Johannes Veerman also MC'd at T39.
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JogginFrog
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In Round 3 in Northern Ireland, Filippo Celli started birdie-birdie-par-eagle to get to -11, tied atop the leaderboard on Europe's top pro tour. Filippo has said he likes pressure, but that was a new level for him. (Last amateur to win on the European Tour: Shane Lowry in the 2009 Irish Open.) Celli took two to escape a bunker on the very next hole to drop out of the lead; he lost 5 more shots over the rest of the round.
But he came back with a strong 68 in the final round and finished T7 -- which would have been worth ~$39,000 if he were a pro. Another fantastic result for a college player. But I suspect that when he looks at the -12 winning score, he'll think about being -11 through 40 holes and wonder what could have been.
And it's increasingly likely that he's played his last golf for TCU.
But he came back with a strong 68 in the final round and finished T7 -- which would have been worth ~$39,000 if he were a pro. Another fantastic result for a college player. But I suspect that when he looks at the -12 winning score, he'll think about being -11 through 40 holes and wonder what could have been.
And it's increasingly likely that he's played his last golf for TCU.
JogginFrog
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Ha ha ha -- USGA releases its U.S. Amateur stroke-play pairings, which includes a Costanza-Kremer-Newman group. As Jerry would say, What's with that?
Update 1: Kremer and Newman's plan appears to be working--they are both T1 (-3) after the first round. Costanza is +3.
Update 2: Kremer and Newman both advance to match play. Costanza may join them if he survives a 15-for-11 playoff on Wednesday.
Update 1: Kremer and Newman's plan appears to be working--they are both T1 (-3) after the first round. Costanza is +3.
Update 2: Kremer and Newman both advance to match play. Costanza may join them if he survives a 15-for-11 playoff on Wednesday.
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JogginFrog
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Mateo Fernandez de Oliveira advances to match play at the U.S. Amateur for the third consecutive year. He has won at least one match each year; if he gets to the round of 16 as he did in 2020, he will likely move into the top 20 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. (He's currently 21st).
Edit: Mateo lost (19 holes) in the round of 64. He was 2 up through 13 after 13 straight pars but made a pair of bogeys coming in that cost him.
Edit: Mateo lost (19 holes) in the round of 64. He was 2 up through 13 after 13 straight pars but made a pair of bogeys coming in that cost him.
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