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Fahey Advances to US Women's Amateur Match Play Competition
August 09, 2017 | Women's Golf
CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Bowling Green State University junior Erin Fahey carded scores of 74 and 75 in stroke play rounds of the US Women's Amateur on Aug. 7 and 8 to move onto match play competition this afternoon.
Fahey qualified for the US Women's Amateur after she shot a 71 to place eighth overall in the 88-player field in Dayton, Ohio. With her stroke play rounds of 75 and 75, No. 55 Fahey now advances to face No. 10 Lauren Stephenson in match play beginning at 1 p.m. pacific time, 4 p.m. eastern, where the winner will continue on to tomorrow's second round of match play in the top 32 players.
Fahey's success in stroke play helped her make the cut from the field of 156 players to the top 64, where she became Bowling Green women's golf head coach Stephanie Young's first player to make the cut in the US Women's Amateur. Overall, Coach Young has had four players now qualify for the US Women's Amateur in Fahey, Lily Bartell and Patricia Holt (2013), and Susy Grunden (2010).
Fans can follow Fahey in today's match play round of the US Women's Amateur with live scoring at: http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2017/u-s--women-s-amateur/scoring.html
Fahey qualified for the US Women's Amateur after she shot a 71 to place eighth overall in the 88-player field in Dayton, Ohio. With her stroke play rounds of 75 and 75, No. 55 Fahey now advances to face No. 10 Lauren Stephenson in match play beginning at 1 p.m. pacific time, 4 p.m. eastern, where the winner will continue on to tomorrow's second round of match play in the top 32 players.
Fahey's success in stroke play helped her make the cut from the field of 156 players to the top 64, where she became Bowling Green women's golf head coach Stephanie Young's first player to make the cut in the US Women's Amateur. Overall, Coach Young has had four players now qualify for the US Women's Amateur in Fahey, Lily Bartell and Patricia Holt (2013), and Susy Grunden (2010).
Fans can follow Fahey in today's match play round of the US Women's Amateur with live scoring at: http://www.usga.org/content/usga/home-page/championships/2017/u-s--women-s-amateur/scoring.html
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