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U.S. Women’s Amateur 7HoleParKANGjutanugarnHoleParKANGjutanugarnThe Final: Kang vs. Jutanugarn1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 184 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 44 4 3 3 2 4 4 4 4 3 4 3 3 4 5 4 3 43 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 5 3 5 4 4 3 4 4 3 419 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 364 4 4 4 3 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4 4 4 4 3 43 4 4 4 3 3 4 5 4 2 4 4 44 4 3 4 2 4 4 5 4 3 5 4 4– Won hole2011 Championship NotesLeadersRound 1 – Jihee Kim, at 5-under 66, by two strokes over XiYu Lin and Mariel Galdiano. Round 2 – Kim and Lydia Kowere co-medalists at 6-under 136, by one stroke over MoriyaJutanugarn.CutAt 7-over-par 149, with a 5-for-1 playoff that lasted two holesto determine the final match-play spot.WeatherInclement weather plagued the championship. Play was suspendedduring Monday’s first round of stroke play at 5:12p.m. due to thunderstorms in the area and resumed at 5:50p.m., after a delay of 38 minutes. Play was again suspendedMonday at 6:33 p.m. due to heavy rains and resumed at 7:10p.m. It rained again late Tuesday afternoon, but not enough todelay play. Sunny with gentle breezes on Thursday, Friday andSaturday. It was rainy and overcast for the championship final.NotesDanielle Kang joined 10 players who have won at least twoconsecutive Women’s Amateur championships. The last tosuccessfully defend was Kelli Kuehne in 1996. Also on that listis Kay Cockerill, who successfully defended her title in 1987at Rhode Island C.C. … Five players, including Juli Inkster,won three U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships in a rowbut Kang will not join them in 2012 – she turned professionalshortly after the 2011 championship … The average age ofthe 156 contestants in the field was 19.5. At age 12, Angel Yinwas the youngest player in the field. At age 53, AlexandraFrazier, the 2010 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur runner-up,was the oldest. Yin and Frazier were both playing in their firstU.S. Women’s Amateur … The youngest player to advance tomake the cut to match play was 13-year-old Mariel Galdiano… None of the 11 mid-amateurs (25 and older) in the fieldsurvived the cut … There were players from 33 states and15 foreign countries (Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada,the People’s Republic of China, Colombia, Germany, GreatBritain (England and Scotland), Korea, Mexico, New Zealand,Philippines, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Vietnam) represented …Kang was one of 11 USGA champions in the field. She wasjoined by: Amy Anderson (2010 U.S. Girls’ Junior); BriannaDo (2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links); Mina Hardin(2010 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur); Sherry Herman(2009 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur); Martha Leach (2009Women’s Mid-Amateur); Ariya Jutanugarn (2011 U.S. Girls’Junior); Kristen Park (2007 Girls’ Junior); Meghan Stasi (2006,2007 and 2010 Women’s Mid-Amateurs); and Emily Tubert(2010 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links) … Anderson,Chen, Jutanugarn and Kang were four of the 21 players in thefield who competed at the 2011 U.S. Women’s Open at TheBroadmoor … Ariya Jutanugarn and her sister, Moriya, theeventual runner-up at the 2011 Women’s Amateur, were oneof two sets of sisters in the field. The others were Brittany andBrooke Henderson, of Canada … Ariya caddied for her sisterafter being eliminated in the second round. The Jutanugarnswere trying to become the first sisters ever to win USGAchampionships in the same year … Previously, the Curtis sisters(Harriot and Margaret) and Hollis Stacy and Martha Leachwon USGA championships, but not in the same year … ElyseSmidinger survived a 5-for-1 playoff to earn the final matchplayspot, then eliminated co-medalist Jihee Kim in the firstround ... There were eight extra-holes matches in the firstround … Olivia Lansing got engaged on Friday, July 22, threedays before she received a call from the USGA to tell her shegot into the Women’s Amateur field as an alternate … Therewere three collegiate coaches in the field – Lauren Dobashi isan assistant coach at the University of California-Davis, CarolRobertson is the head coach at Old Dominion University andMargaret Shirley is the assistant coach at Auburn University.Women’sAmateur