CHARLEY HULL (only 14) LOSES BIRDIE DUEL FOR THE SALLY TITLE
FROM THE GOLFWEEK WEBSITE
By Julie Williams
ORMOND BEACH, Florida – When the flag went up Saturday at Oceanside Country Club, Charley Hull didn’t waste any time resuming the chase she began the day before. After an opening birdie that immediately cut leader Jaye Marie Green’s advantage to a single shot, Hull put her head down and proceeded to birdie three of her next six holes.
The charge very nearly caught Green off-guard.
“She birdied four of her first seven,” Green explained after the round. “I didn’t know what to do. I was
like, ‘Jaye, just keep up with her, just do the best you can.’ ”
A duel was born at the par-4 third, where Green stuck her approach to 3 feet and logged the first of four birdies on the front side. She never gave up her lead, though Hull, pictured right in action during the final by Tracey Wilcox of GolfWeek, pulled even at the fifth.
Green turned up the heat. Birdies at Nos. 8 and 9 sent the momentum decidely in her favour as she took a three-shot lead into the back nine.
“I wasn’t really thinking about me chasing her, I was thinking about me going for what I wanted to shoot, not about what she was shooting, which I learned from being there a few times,” Green explained.
Green closed with a 5-under 67 she didn’t think was even possible during the first round. Green wound up at 5-under 283, four shots ahead of Hull. Ashlan Ramsay and Ericka Schneider finished T-3 at 7-over 295 with Victoria Tanco another shot back.
After a year that saw Green qualify for the U.S Women’s Open at Oakmont then win her first AJGA Invitational title at the Polo Golf Junior Invitational, she looked every bit the seasoned veteran at The Sally. With the wind at her back, Green faced a 200-yard shot to hit the par-5 17th in two – a shot she had pulled off in Round 3.
She pulled a 3-wood and a 7-iron before choosing the safe shot, and in the end expanding her margin of victory to four shots when she birdied and Hull parred.
“If I make bogey and she makes birdie then it’s flipped, I’m only leading by one going into the last hole so I’m just like, ‘Why would you throw away a good round right now? You could still birdie it either way, it’s not like going for it is the only way you could birdie it,” Green reasoned.
The charge very nearly caught Green off-guard.
“She birdied four of her first seven,” Green explained after the round. “I didn’t know what to do. I was
like, ‘Jaye, just keep up with her, just do the best you can.’ ”A duel was born at the par-4 third, where Green stuck her approach to 3 feet and logged the first of four birdies on the front side. She never gave up her lead, though Hull, pictured right in action during the final by Tracey Wilcox of GolfWeek, pulled even at the fifth.
Green turned up the heat. Birdies at Nos. 8 and 9 sent the momentum decidely in her favour as she took a three-shot lead into the back nine.
“I wasn’t really thinking about me chasing her, I was thinking about me going for what I wanted to shoot, not about what she was shooting, which I learned from being there a few times,” Green explained.
Green closed with a 5-under 67 she didn’t think was even possible during the first round. Green wound up at 5-under 283, four shots ahead of Hull. Ashlan Ramsay and Ericka Schneider finished T-3 at 7-over 295 with Victoria Tanco another shot back.
After a year that saw Green qualify for the U.S Women’s Open at Oakmont then win her first AJGA Invitational title at the Polo Golf Junior Invitational, she looked every bit the seasoned veteran at The Sally. With the wind at her back, Green faced a 200-yard shot to hit the par-5 17th in two – a shot she had pulled off in Round 3.
She pulled a 3-wood and a 7-iron before choosing the safe shot, and in the end expanding her margin of victory to four shots when she birdied and Hull parred.
“If I make bogey and she makes birdie then it’s flipped, I’m only leading by one going into the last hole so I’m just like, ‘Why would you throw away a good round right now? You could still birdie it either way, it’s not like going for it is the only way you could birdie it,” Green reasoned.
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