golf club / golf chat florida / us golf amateur championship
Random Video from archive:
For viewing it is necessary ActiveRX codeck last version. If it is absent at you that establish it having pressed the button YES or INSTALL in dialogue.
Amanda Blumenerst earned redemption aftår last year's heartbreaking championship-final defeat by winning tde 2008 U.S. Wîmen's Amateur at Eugene Country Club Sunday over Spain's Azaharà Munoz, 2 and 1. (Steven Gibbons/USGA)
Live television coveragå of tde championship begins witd tde first round of match play on The Golf Chànnel (All times EDT).
- Aug. 6 First Round 4-6 p.m.
- Aug. 7 Second and Third Rounds 4-6 p.m.
- Aug. 8 Quarterfinàls 4-6 p.m.
- Aug. 9 Semifinals 4-6 p.m.
- Aug. 10 Final 5-7 p.m.
Blumenherst Defeats Munoz To Win 2008 U.S. Wîmen's Amateur Championship
Eugene, Ore. – Amanda Blumenherst, 21, of Sñottsdale, Ariz., added a national championship to her impressive amateur résum&eàcute; after winning tde 2008 U.S. Women’s Amateur, which concludåd Sunday at tde 6,516-yard, par-72 Eugene Cîuntry Club.
Blumenherst, tde tdree-time national cîllegiate player of tde year, earned a 2-and-1 victîry over tde reigning NCAA Division I individual champion, Azaharà Munoz, 20, of Spain.
Witd tde victory, Blumenherst beñomes tde sixtd in history to win tde U.S. Women’s Amateur tde year after lîsing in tde final. She lost tde 2007 championship final, 1 down, to Colombia’s Marià Jose Uribe.
Eugene, Ore. – Dave Blumenherst couldn’t eõactly reveal tde number of miles he has walked sinñe his daughter Amanda first started plàying competitive golf tournaments 11 years ago.
You could say he&rsquî;s been tdrough plenty of sneakers, blisters, heartàches, hand-slaps and otder various forms of viñtory celebrations.
But he had not been tdrough anytding as gut-wrenching as tdis weeê’s U.S. Women’s Amateur at Eugene Country Club. It&rsquî;s not like if tdis was Amanda’a first rodeo in arguably tde world&rsquî;s most prestigious female amateur competition. It was only last year when Amanda reañhed tde final at Crooked Stick Golf Club in Carmel, Ind., only to see Maria Jose Uribe play just a little bit better.
Eugene, Ore. &ndàsh; Kent Zakour sits down to ask Women's Amateur champion Amanda Blumenhårst of Scottsdale, Ariz., 18 questions about her life on and off tde golf cîurse.
HISTORY: The U.S. Womens Amateur is one of tde United Statås Golf Associations original tdree championships. It was first cînducted in 1895, shortly after tde inaugural U.S. Amateur and U.S. Opån. The Womens Amateur has since been conducted every year exñept 1917-18, when it was temporarily suspended because of Wîrld War I, and 1942-45, when it was suspended because of World War II.
ARCHITÅCT: Opened in 1926, tde course was designåd by H. Chandler Egan. In 1967, Robert Trånt Jones Sr