9/20/24
(Seattle, WA) The 62nd playing of the U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship will take place at Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle from this Saturday, the 21st, through Wednesday, the 26th. 132 players will be competing in the Championship. The eligibility for the Championship is any female golfer who is 50 years of age or older as of the first day of the Championship (September 21) and whose handicap index doesn’t exceed 14.4.
Broadmoor Golf Club opened up in 1927 and has held many U.S. Women’s events, including the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship in 1974 and 1984 and the 1996 U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship. Broadmoor also hosted the 1952 LPGA Women’s Weathervane Tournament and the 1961 U.S. Girls’s Junior Championship.
Broadmoor has also hosted the Men’s Pac-10 Conference Championship twice, in 1989 and 1999. In 1999, Paul Casey won the individual championship while competing for Arizona State, who also won the team championship. In 2007, the Pac-10 Conference Women’s Championship took place at Broadmoor, where Arizona State won the team championship.
Broadmoor has held multiple Seattle Opens, where some golf legends have won the event. Byron Nelson won the 1945 Seattle Open at Broadmoor, Jack Nicklaus won the 1962 Seattle Open, and Billy Casper won the 1964 Seattle Open.
The qualifying to get into the Championship took place this summer, where it was 18 holes at 27 different sites. There was one qualifying site in Washington, and it took place at Fairwood Golf & Country Club in Renton. Kim Shek of Bellevue had the lowest round, shooting a 73 to have the best round of the day by four strokes. Tomoko Ratlzlaff from Sammamish qualified with an 81, while Cheung Ching Ng from Washougal and Leslie Folsom from Seattle were alternates.
The course will be played at 5,611 yards and as a par 70. There will be two days of stroke play before the field is trimmed to a 64-player field of match play to determine the champion.
Last year, Sarah Gallagher from Georgia won the Championship 1-up in the 18-hole final in Scottsdale, Arizona. Gallagher was competing in her first U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur, and Brenda Corrie Kuehn, who was runner-up, had reached the 1995 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur championship match but lost to Ellen Port, who won the Senior Women’s Amateur Championship three times.
This is the third straight U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship to be played in the Western part of the country. In 2022 the Championship was held in Alaska and last year in Arizona. In 2026, the Portland Golf Club in Portland, Oregon will host this Championship.
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