More USA college honours for Leona Maguire

NEWS RELEASE FROM DUKE UNIVERSITY

BRADENTON, Florida– Duke University women’s golf standout Leona Maguire has swept the Division I women’s golf national awards following the completion of the NCAA Championship at the Concession Golf Club in Bradenton, Florida.

Maguire was named the PING WGCA Player of the Year and WGCA Freshman of the Year, which are the organisation’s highest player honours for 2014-15. 

Maguire, who hails from Cavan, Ireland, collected a school-record 70.78 stroke average, while notching eight top five and 10 top 10 placements out of 11 tournaments during her rookie campaign.  The ACC Player and Rookie of the Year totalled three victories on the season

It is just the second time a Duke golfer has won both the WGCA Player and Rookie of the Year honour. Amanda Blumenherst earned the awards in 2005-06.  

Her stroke average of 70.78 bested Blumenherst’s mark of 71.00 from the 2006-07 and 2007-08 campaigns.  Maguire equalled Blumenherst’s Blue Devil record of 24 rounds of even or under par as well from the 2005-06 season, while her nine top five finishes this season ranked tied third.

Maguire netted a team-best 10 rounds in the 60s and her scores counted all 32 rounds during the 2014-15 campaign.    Maguire currently ranks No. 1 nationally in both the Golfweek/Sagarin Rankings and the Golfstat Cup.

She is also No 1 in the World Women's Amateur Rankings which are run by the USGA and the RandA

In the Duke freshman record books, Maguire closed the season ranking tied second in top five finishes (9), tied second in top 10 finishes (10), tied third in top 20 finishes (10), tied first in victories (3), first in stroke average (70.68) and tied first in even or under par rounds (24). 

 

Aberdeenshire name team for Northern Division jamboree at Murcar Links

Aberdeenshire's team to play Angus, Northern Counties and Perth & Kinross in the Northern Division women's inter-county team championship at Murcar Links from June 27 to 29 is:

Kimberley Beveridge (Aboyne)

Sammy Leslie (Aberdeen Ladies)

Shannon McWilliam (Aboyne)

Donna Pocock (Murcar Links)

Rachel Polson  (Peterculter)

Molly Stewart (Murcar Links)

Carol Wilson (Murcar Links)

Sheena Wood (Aberdeen Ladies)

+Sheena Wood is team captain

Reserves:

Jasmine Mackintosh (Hazlehead)

Tegan Seivwright (Murcar Links)

The winning team at the end of the three days goes forward to the Scottish women's county finals at Stranraer from September 18 to 20.

Angus won the Scottish title last year after winning the Northern Division title

Lizzie Prior hits record form to win Critchley 

Salver at Sunningdale

ENGLAND GOLF NEWS RELEASE
England girl international Lizzie Prior hit record form to win the Critchley Salver by two shots at Sunningdale.
The 17-year-old from Burhill set up her victory in the first round when she shot a course record of eight-under par 67 on the New Course.  It included an eagle, six birdies and 11 pars.
It was both her lowest-ever score and her first bogey-free round and she commented: “It was really nice – I enjoyed it!” 
During the course of the round she holed a couple of 25-footers, but generally her accurate approach shots left her with very makeable putts and on one par three she hit it to within 2ft.
Prior scored three-over 77 on the Old Course in the second round for a total of five-under 144 and a two-shot win from Dulcie Sverdloff of Essex. Tara Watters of Middlesex was third on two-under par while Lincolnshire’s Emily Slater was one-under.
“I’ve always wanted to win this competition,” said Prior, who is on a roll. The previous week she set another course record of six-under par at Lindfield in Sussex, where she plays her college golf.
She went on to tackle a different challenge – teeing up, by invitation, alongside the men in a EuroPro event at her home course. Next week she’s off to Germany to represent England Golf in the German girls’ open at St Leon Rot. 

Prior has already won at the Fairhaven Trophies this season and was in England's winning team at last year's girls' Home Internationals.
Click here for the full scores from the Critchley Salver
 
Prior is pictured with television commentator Bruce Critchley, who presented the trophy which remembers his mother, British champion and Curtis Cup player, Diana Critchley.

Lyndsey Hewison
Press Officer
England Golf
pr@englandgolf.org

Aberdeenshire girls medal at Ballater
Par 71 CSS 70
BEST SCRATCH
84 Megan Robb (Peterculter)
85 Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne)
88 Chloe Henderson (Deeside)
HANDICAP

66 Caitlin Fraser (Tarland) (28).

72 Chloe Henderson (Deeside) (16)

73 Rachel Mathieson (Hazlehead) (26), Carmen Griffiths (Aboyne) (12), Megan Robb  (Peterculter) (11)

74 Kirsten Watson (Deeside) (21)

81 Kim Moir (Newmachar (24) 

 

England teenagers head to German Open   Seven teenagers will represent England Golf in the German Boys’ and Girls’ Open at St Leon Rot from June 5-7. They are Toby Briggs of Norfolk, Sam Done of Lincolnshire, William Enefer of Shropshire, Harry Hall of Cornwall, Sophie Lamb and Hollie Muse of Lancashire and Lizzie Prior of Surrey. Briggs, Enefer and Hall will combine in the boys’ Nations Cup team, while Lamb, Muse and Prior make up the girls’ team. Done will play as an individual. The players: Toby Briggs, 15, (Dunston Hall) helped England win the Nations Cup at the Fairhaven Trophies and was runner-up in the boys’ individual event. He was unbeaten in the recent U16 international against Spain. Sam Done, 17, (Kenwick Park) was third in the recent Fairhaven Trophies and tied sixth in the 2014 boys’ county champion of champions tournament. William Enefer, 17, (Wrekin) tied fourth in the Fairhaven Trophies and had top ten finishes in the Peter McEvoy Trophy and the West of England stoke play. Harry Hall, 17, (West Cornwall) won the Welsh Youths’ Open last year and this year has finished sixth in both the Darwin Salver and the West of England stroke play. Sophie Lamb, 17, (Clitheroe) was fourth in the Welsh women’s stroke play, fifth in the Irish and eighth in the Scottish. She won the Fairhaven Trophies in 2013 and ’14 and is a girl international. Hollie Muse, 15, (West Lancashire, image © Leaderboard Photography) helped England beat Spain in the recent mixed international and this season has won the Scottish U16 championship and The Leveret. She has represented England in both ladies’ and girls’ teams. Lizzie Prior, 17, (Burhill) has won the Fairhaven Trophies and the Critchley Salver this season. She also tied fourth in the Roehampton Gold Cup. She is a girl international. Lyndsey Hewison Press Officer England Golf pr@englandgolf.org 07825 752 193

Hats off to Hayley! Even in defeat Davis is a 

                                    top drawer person 


                FROM JOHN DRYBURGH
 Looking back at the Baylor v Stanford NCAA Championship Final.
An incredible performance by Haley Davis, pictured, yesterday and the class she showed in her post-match interview shows the girl for what she is, top drawer.
See the link below to the highlights and post-match interview. 
Have a look at the shot she played on 16 out of deep mud, 140 yards and halmost holed it. Incredible.
Whilst she is going to go back for another year to graduate at Baylor University, the good news for British golf fans is that Hayley will be going to LPGA Q School in August.
If she can get her card, she will tee it up on the LPGA next year whilst finishing her degree. 
Under NCAA rules she can't play a fifth year for Baylor.
Hayley  is going to Australia over the summer to take summer school credits so isn't playing in the "British" which is a real shame.
Lauren White put up a great fight and chipped in three times in her match and will no doubt have matured as a result of this experience.

LINK TO HAYLEY DAVIS WONDER SHOT AND POST-MATCH INTERVIEW

http://www.golfchannel.com/media/womens-national-champ-action-stackhousedavis-match/


Below id a link to a really interesting article in Golfweek this week on the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina on the Tulane ladies golf programme. It has a little local interest with pictures of Gemma (Dryburgh) helping to build houses (which she loved!) and her and Olivia Winning helping out at a homeless shelter.

It's too big to print but the link may be of interest to Kirkwodgolf readers.


http://golfweek.com/news/2015/may/23/ncaa-women-college-golf-tulane-green-wave-katrina/

Scots-born Karis Davidson finishes T13 in  Arizona Thunderbird Junior Championship Queensland-based, Innerleithen-born Karis Davidson, the highest ranked Scots-born female at number 86 in the World Amateur Rankings, finished a creditable joint 13th in a girls' international field of 30 players at the 2015 Thunderbird Junior International Championship over a longish Raptor Course (Par 72, 6,342yd) at Grayhawk Golf Club, Scottsdale, Arizona this week, writes Colin Farquharson  The Davidson family emigrated from the Tweed Valley to Queensland seven years ago, since when Karis has become one of the leading Australian girl golfers Karis, pictured, who has her 17th birthday on July 7 , shot 73-74-71 for a two-over-par tally of 218 - only six shots behind the winner, Mika Lui from Beverly Hills, California (68-74-70 for 212). Lui is ranked No 41 in the WWAGR A bonus for the Scots teenager on her trip to the States was a guided tour of the Ping factory and a gift of a new set of custom-fitted Ping clubs. There were no British girls in the field. Matty Lamb from Hexham and Daniel O'Loughlin from Nottingham finished T31 and T39 respectively in the boys' division won by Sam Burns from Shreveport, Louisiana with an 11-under-par total of 205 (69-66-70) Lamb was doing quite well with his first two rounds of 73 and 71 but he faded over the final circuit for a 79 and a total of seven-over 223. O'Loughlin shot 76-79-72 for 227 SCROLL DOWN PAST THE NEWS RELEASE TO VIEW ALL THE SCORES Burns holds lead to win Thunderbird International Junior Liu takes home Girls Division title in third appearance at Grayhawk SCOTTSDALE, Ariona – Sam Burns of Shreveport, Louisiana, made birdie on No. 18 to hold onto his lead, firing a 2-under-par 70 in the final round to win the Thunderbird International Junior with a tournament total 11-under-par 205.  In the Girls Division, Mika Liu of Beverly Hills, California, reclaimed the top spot to win at 4-under-par 212 tournament total. Burns entered the final round with a two-stroke lead over the field, but felt the competition nipping at his heels from the start, but the No. 1 player in the Polo Golf Rankings held on, winning his third Invitational. “It means a lot to me to win since it was one of my last AJGA tournaments,” said Burns, who will play at Louisiana State University in the fall. “I had to focus on my game and get myself as many opportunities to birdie as possible. I think if you do that out here you can score pretty well. Last year I had the same deal where I was leading after two rounds and lost it, but I wasn’t going to let that happen this year.” Braden Thornberry fired the low final-round score with a 5-under-par 67, finishing second with a 10-under-par 206 tournament total. Tied for third at 7-under-par 209 were Collin Morikawa of La Canada Flintridge, California, and Koichiro Ishika of Kakogawa, Japan, and tied for fifth at 5-under-par 211 were Sahith Theegala of Chino Hills, California, and Hidetoshi Yoshihara of Irvine, California. Liu made back-to-back birdies on Nos. 14 and 15 on her way to winning her third AJGA event and second title in as many weeks after taking the inaugural U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball title. The No. 30 player in the Polo Golf Rankings was playing in her third Thunderbird International Junior. “Every time I come to this tournament it is really special to me,” Liu said. “After three years of coming here I finally grabbed the title. My strengths today were hitting on the fairways and hitting on the greens. I was just conserving myself to not get in trouble, make pars, and grabbing birdie opportunities when I could.” Tied in second were Angel Yin of Arcadia, California, and Bailey Tardy of Norcross, Georgia, with a 3-under-par 213 tournament total, and tied in fourth were Andrea Lee of Hermosa Beach, California, and Mariel Galdiano of Pearl City, Hawaii, with a 4-under-par 214.

Boys Division FINAL TOTALS Par 216 (Par 3x72) Yardage 7,112 Name Grad Hometown Score 1 Sam Burns 2015 Shreveport, La. 69-66-70--205 2 Braden Thornberry 2015 Olive Branch, Miss. 71-68-67--206 T3 Collin Morikawa 2015 La Canada Flintridge, Calif. 70-70-69--209 T3 Koichiro Ishika 2017 Kakogawa, Japan 70-67-72--209 T5 Sahith Theegala 2015 Chino Hills, Calif. 67-70-74--211 T5 Hidetoshi Yoshihara 2016 (Japan) Irvine, Calif. 70-67-74--211 T7 Ryan Grider 2017 Lewisville, Texas 74-71-67--212 T7 Viktor Hovland 2016 Oslo, Norway 67-72-73--212 9 Michael Feagles 2016 Scottsdale, Ariz. 73-68-72--213 T10 Matthew Wolff 2017 Agoura Hills, Calif. 70-72-72--214 T10 Jacob Solomon 2015 Dublin, Calif. 74-68-72--214 T10 Luis Gagne 2015 Orlando, Fla. 72-71-71--214 T10 Yechun (Carl) Yuan 2015 (China) Lake Mary, Fla. 68-71-75--214 T14 Gordon Neale 2015 Dove Canyon, Calif. 75-70-72--217 T14 Doc Redman 2016 Raleigh, N.C. 72-70-75--217 T14 Andrew Kozan 2017 Palm Beach Gardens, Fla. 75-67-75--217 T14 Wilson Furr 2017 Jackson, Miss. 69-74-74--217 T14 Aaron Whalen 2015 Ephrata, Wash. 71-73-73--217 T14 Eugene Hong 2018 Sanford, Fla. 72-72-73--217 T20 Won Jun Lee 2017 (South Korea) Wesley Chapel, Fla. 69-81-69--219 T20 Nathan Jeansonne 2015 Keithville, La. 76-75-68--219 T20 Kyler Tate 2015 Winter Garden, Fla. 70-77-72--219 T20 Cameron Young 2015 Scarborough, N.Y. 77-68-74--219 T20 Norman Xiong 2017 Canyon Lake, Calif. 68-76-75--219 T20 Philip Barbaree 2017 Shreveport, La. 73-72-74--219 T26 Roberto Lebrija 2016 Mexico City, Mexico 76-72-73--221 T26 Spencer Soosman 2016 Westlake Village, Calif. 67-80-74--221 T26 Brad Dalke 2015 Hobart, Okla. 74-74-73--221 T26 Herik Machado 2016 Porto Alegre, Brazil 70-74-77--221 T26 Wocheng (Aden) Ye 2018 (China) Lake Mary, Fla. 72-72-77--221 T31 Charles Kim 2015 (South Korea) Cedar Park, Texas 77-70-76--223 T31 Chandler Phillips 2015 Huntsville, Texas 71-72-80--223 T31 Kristoffer Reitan 2017 Nesøya, Norway 72-72-79--223 T31 Matty Lamb 2016 Hexham, United Kingdom 73-71-79--223 35 Tyler Strafaci 2016 Davie, Fla. 73-76-75--224 36 Brandon Smith 2015 Frisco, Texas 74-73-78--225 T37 Jamie Cheatham 2015 Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. 78-70-78--226 T37 Lachlan Barker 2016 Willunga, Australia 74-77-75--226 T39 Joshua McCarthy 2016 Danville, Calif. 76-76-75--227 T39 Daniel O'Loughlin 2016 Nottingham, United Kingdom 76-79-72--227 T39 Triston Fisher 2015 Southlake, Texas 82-73-72--227 42 Inigo Benaran 2016 San Sebastian, Spain 78-78-72--228 T43 S.M. Lee 2016 Buford, Ga. 80-74-75--229 T43 Riley Casey 2016 Abilene, Texas 74-72-83--229 45 Cooper Dossey 2016 Austin, Texas 76-79-75--230 46 Esteban Missura 2017 Quito, Ecuador 81-78-74--233 T47 Felix Palson 2016 Lidingö, Sweden 77-78-83--238 T47 Tyler Moore 2015 Escondido, Calif. 79-80-79--238 Girls Division FINAL TOTALS Par 216 (3x72) Yardage 6,342 Name Grad Hometown Score 1 Mika Liu 2017 Beverly Hills, Calif. 68-74-70--212 T2 Angel Yin 2017 Arcadia, Calif. 75-72-66--213 T2 Bailey Tardy 2015 Norcross, Ga. 74-69-70--213 T4 Andrea Lee 2016 Hermosa Beach, Calif. 72-71-71--214 T4 Mariel Galdiano 2016 Pearl City, Hawaii 69-73-72--214 T6 Robynn Ree 2015 Redondo Beach, Calif. 71-69-75--215 T6 Lauren Stephenson 2015 Lexington, S.C. 72-69-74--215 T8 Bethany Wu 2015 Diamond Bar, Calif. 73-71-72--216 T8 Himawari Ogura 2017 Koutou, Japan 72-71-73--216 T10 Hailee Cooper 2018 Montgomery, Texas 73-75-69--217 T10 Cheyenne Knight 2015 Aledo, Texas 72-73-72--217 T10 Agathe Laisne 2017 Paris, France 69-74-74--217 T13 Jillian Hollis 2015 Rocky River, Ohio 72-74-72--218 T13 Karis Davidson 2015 Hope Island, QLD, Australia 73-74-71--218 T13 Lilia Vu 2015 Fountain Valley, Calif. 75-71-72--218 16 Nelly Korda 2016 Bradenton, Fla. 80-73-67--220 T17 Kaitlyn Papp 2017 Austin, Texas 73-71-77--221 T17 Hannah O'Sullivan 2016 Chandler, Ariz. 75-75-71--221 19 Abbey Carlson 2016 Lake Mary, Fla. 76-73-73--222 T20 Ana Paula Valdes 2016 (Mexico) Bluffton, S.C. 72-74-78--224 T20 Kristen Gillman 2016 Austin, Texas 74-75-75--224 T20 Alyaa Abdulghany 2017 Newport Beach, Calif. 78-75-71--224 T23 Linda Lundqvist 2016 Balsta, Sweden 77-70-78--225 T23 Elizabeth Wang 2018 San Marino, Calif. 75-75-75--225 25 Rinko Mitsunaga 2015 Roswell, Ga. 75-75-79--229 T26 Marion Veysseyre 2016 La Chapelle Auzac, France 79-72-80--231 T26 Maria Fassi 2016 Pachuca Hidalgo, Mexico 77-76-78--231 T26 Vanessa Manrique 2017 Bogota, Colombia 76-82-73--231 29 Rachel Dai 2015 Milton, Ga. 77-80-75--232 30 Sofia Linette Garcia Peralta 2016 Asuncion, Paraguay 77-85-82--244

Revised Saturday draw for St Rule Trophy

ST ANDREWS NEW COURSE

FIRST AND SECOND ROUND TEE TIMES

7.00 and 12.00
Rachel Taylor    Reicmswald (Germany)
Iona Stephen     Wentworth
Clara Young      North Berwick

7.10 and 12.10
Rachel Polson          Peterculter
Caroline Ellington    Lonnie Poole (USA)
Louise  Latorre        Pau (France)

7.20 and 12.20
Hollie Muse                West Lancashire
Shannon McWilliam   Aboyne
Charlotte Leathem      Styal

7.30 and 12.30
Olivia Jackson            Pannal
Julie A.Nordin             Stavanger (Norway)
Shannon Flynn            Burhill

7.40 and 12.40
Victoria Mallett           Sutton Coldfield
Lauren Horsford         Wimbledon Park
Gillian Paton               Royal Montrose

7.50 and 12.50
Gabrielle Macdonald        Craigielaw
Ainee O'Connor                Sundridge Park
Aditi Ashok                       Bangalore (India)

8.00 and 01.00
Chloe Goadby             St Regulus
Charlotte De Corte      Royal Antwerp (Belgium)
Annabel Bailey            Kirby Muxloe

8.10 and 01.10
Dulcie Sverdloff         Garon Park
Jacqueline Sneddon    Alyth
Samantha Giles           St Mellion

8.20 and 01.20
Jean O'Driscoll          Muskerry (Ireland)
Hazel MacGarvie        Troon Ladies
Olivia Winning            Rotherham

8.40 and 01.40
Chloe Williams            Wrexham
Joanna Charlton           The Metropolitan (Australia)
Nastja Banovec            Otocec (Slovenia)

8.50 and 01.50
Lesley Atkins              Gullane Ladies
Sinead Sexton              Lahinch (Ireland)
Marit Harryvan          Noord (Netherlands)

9.00 and 02.00
Rachel Walker              Dumfries and County
Kimberley Beveridge    Aboyne
Rachel Woodcock         Blankney

9.10 and 02.10
Cloe Frankish               Chart Hills
Bethany Garton            Royal Lytham and St Annes
Emily Slater                 Woodhall Spa

9.20 and 02.20
Alice Barnes                 West Sussex
Bethan Popel                 Long Ashton
Rochelle Morris            Woodsome Hall

9.30 and 02.30
Lianna Bailey               Kirby Muxloe
Georgina Mundy            Corhampton
Connie Jaffrey              Troon Ladies

9.40 and 02.40
Susan Jackson             Ladybank

Hannah McCook          Grantown on Spey
Charlotte Austwick      Fulford

9.50 and 02.50
Isobel Wardle                Prestbury
Jessica Meek                 Carnoustie Ladies
Kate McIntosh              Broomieknowe

10.00 and 03.00
Gemma Batty               Powfoot
Bronwyn Davies          Wolstanton
Elizabeth Mallett         Wishaw GCC (Sutton Coldfield)

10.10 and 03.10
Emma Allen                Meon Valley
India Clyburn              Woodhall Spa
Jennifer Saxton            Muckhart

10.20 and 03.20
Gemma Clews             Delamere Forest
Heather Munro            Monifieth
Emily Coleman            Trentham

Hayley Davis loses at 19th - Baylor go down 

3-2 to Anne Walker's Stanford in NCAA  Final

The victorious Stanford University team with head coach Anne Walker, from Scotland, on extreme right. Another Scot, Kathryn Imrie, is one of her assistants.

FROM THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, TEXAS WEBSITE
with some additional words by Colin Farquharson 
 BRADENTON, Florida -  Baylor University women's golf team, which included Hayley Davis from Dorset and Lauren Whyte from St Andrews,  fell on the first play-off hole in the NCAA Division I national championship match against Stanford on Wednesday at The Concession Golf Club.
Stanford University from California - Tiger Woods' alma mater and where Scot Anne Walker is the women's head coach with Kathryn Imrie from Monifieth an assistant  - won a thrilling contest 3-2. 
The Bears got wins from Dylan Kim (3 and 1) and Giovana Maymon 4 and 3), but Hayley Davis's putt on her 19th hole just missed, ending Baylor's chance at a national championship.
Davis was two up with two holes remaining in regulation ;play and had an eight-foot putt on the 17th green that would've clinched the national title, but Stanford's Mariah Stackhouse evened the match with wins on No. 17 and No. 18, and then Stackhouse won by making par on the first play-off hole, No. 10. 
 “My heart is hurting right now for Hayley,” Baylor coach Jay Goble said. “She has been the heart and soul of our team and she has single-handedly elevated our team to this position. My heart is really hurting for her right now."
It was Hayley Davis's last tournament on the US women's college circuit after four years at Baylor University, Texas
It was a dramatic reversal from Baylor's semi-final match against Duke, where the Bears' Lauren Whyte clinched the match over the defending national champions on her sixth play-off hole.
Maymon won her match against Quirine Eijkenboom from Germany  4 and 3, and Dylan Kim claimed a 3 and 1 victory over Lauren Kim to get the Bears within one point of the title.
 Laura Lonardi trailed most of the day before she fought back to all-square by winning the 14th hole, but she was eventually defeated by Casey Danielson, who won by two holes.
Freshman Whyte, hero of Baylor's semi-final win, was defeated 4 and 3 by Shannon Aubert from France.
The second-place finish was by far the best in Baylor's women's golf program history. It was only their third qualification to play in the NCAA Championship. Their previous highest finish was a tie for 16th in 2012 best finish was a tie for 16th in 2012, head coach Jay Goble's first year at the helm.

TOP QUOTE #1
"I love seeing the fight out here in match play with that crew. They fight to be the best at everything they do and they fought out there on the golf course every second today. Yes, it stings, because you're so close to the pinnacle. But for me as a coach and I know for them as a player, I'm going to use it as motivation to get back here and to get back in that position again, because I love it." - head coach Jay Goble.
TOP QUOTE #2
"Since my freshman year when I came in at the same time as Jay (Goble), just kind of changed the goals of the program, like we need to be competing for a national championship. That's why I came to Baylor because that's what I wanted for the program. Where the program was before I came, I knew it wasn't the best program, but it had potential, and that's why I came to Baylor because I knew it really could be like this. So yeah, I'm just really excited how it's going for them, and I think it's only going to get better, too."- senior Hayley Davis. 

SCOREBOARD
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL MATCH
Concession Course, Bradenton, Florida

BAYLOR 2, STANFORD 3
Baylor names first

Laura Lombardi lost to Casey Donaldson 2 holes
Lauren Whyte lost to Shannon Aubert  4 and 3.
Dylan Kim bt Laura Kim  3 and 1
Giovana Maymon bt Quirine Eijkenboom  4 and 3
Hayley Davis lost to Mariah Stackhouse at 19th.




FROM THE BAYLOR UNIVERSITY, TEXAS WEBSITE
with some additional words by Colin Farquharson 
 BRADENTON, Florida -  Baylor University women's golf team, which included Hayley Davis from Dorset and Lauren Whyte from St Andrews,  fell on the first play-off hole in the NCAA Division I national championship match against Stanford on Wednesday at The Concession Golf Club.
Stanford University from California - Tiger Woods' alma mater - won a thrilling contest 3-2. 
The Bears got wins from Dylan Kim (3 and 1) and Giovana Maymon 4 and 3), but Hayley Davis's putt on her 19th hole just missed, ending Baylor's chance at a national championship.
Davis was two up with two holes remaining in regulation ;play and had an eight-foot putt on the 17th green that would've clinched the national title, but Stanford's Mariah Stackhouse evened the match with wins on No. 17 and No. 18, and then Stackhouse won by making par on the first play-off hole, No. 10. 
It was a dramatic reversal from Baylor's semi-final match against Duke, where the Bears' Lauren Whyte clinched the match over the defending national champions on her sixth play-off hole.
Maymon won her match against Quirine Eijkenboom from Germany  4 and 3, and Dylan Kim claimed a 3 and 1 victory over Lauren Kim to get the Bears within one point of the title.
 Laura Lonardi trailed most of the day before she fought back to all-square by winning the 14th hole, but she was eventually defeated by Casey Danielson, who won by two holes.
Freshman Whyte, hero of Baylor's semi-final win, was defeated 4 and 3 by Shannon Aubert from France.
The second-place finish was by far the best in Baylor's women's golf program history. It was only their third qualification to play in the NCAA Championship. Their previous highest finish was a tie for 16th in 2012 best finish was a tie for 16th in 2012, head coach Jay Goble's first year at the helm.

TOP QUOTE #1
"I love seeing the fight out here in match play with that crew. They fight to be the best at everything they do and they fought out there on the golf course every second today. Yes, it stings, because you're so close to the pinnacle. But for me as a coach and I know for them as a player, I'm going to use it as motivation to get back here and to get back in that position again, because I love it." - head coach Jay Goble.
TOP QUOTE #2
"Since my freshman year when I came in at the same time as Jay (Goble), just kind of changed the goals of the program, like we need to be competing for a national championship. That's why I came to Baylor because that's what I wanted for the program. Where the program was before I came, I knew it wasn't the best program, but it had potential, and that's why I came to Baylor because I knew it really could be like this. So yeah, I'm just really excited how it's going for them, and I think it's only going to get better, too."- senior Hayley Davis. 

SCOREBOARD
NCAA CHAMPIONSHIP - FINAL MATCH
Concession Course, Bradenton, Florida

BAYLOR 2, STANFORD 3
Baylor names first

Laura Lombardi lost to Casey Donaldson 2 holes
Lauren Whyte lost to Shannon Aubert  4 and 3.
Dylan Kim bt Laura Kim  3 and 1
Giovana Maymon bt Quirine Eijkenboom  4 and 3
Hayley Davis lost to Mariah Stackhouse at 19th.