JAYE MARIE GREEN SETS COURSE RECORD 62 IN LPGA Q SCHOOL

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Green leads LPGA Q-School; Tiger's niece

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FROM GOLFTALK CHANNEL

By Randall Mell

Jaye Marie Green blistered LPGA International’s Jones Course with a 10-under-par 62 Wednesday in the first round of the LPGA’s Q-School finals.
Green, 19, of Boca Raton, Florida set a course record with her round of 11 birdies and a bogey. She is four shots ahead of Seon Hwa Lee, a four-time LPGA winner who was the tour’s Rookie of the Year in 2006. 
 Tiffany Joh is also four back. Amy Anderson, the 2009 U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur winner who went on to win a NCAA record 20 titles at North Dakota State, opened with a 68.
The low 20 players will earn LPGA exempt playing privileges at the end of 90 holes. The next 25 and ties will earn conditional status.
China teen standout Xiyu Lee, a Ladies European Tour rookie, opened with a 69. Reilley Rankin, an LPGA veteran, opened with a 70. Lorie Kane, a four-time LPGA winner, posted 72. 
Cheyenne Woods, niece to Tiger Woods, shot 77.

 AMY ANDERSON'S FAITH GIVES HER PURPOSE ON GOLF COURSE

The first time Amy Anderson’s name was associated with the LPGA Tour was when she was awarded the 2012 Dinah Shore Trophy Award, which recognizes a female collegiate athlete who excels in academics and athletics. 
But to say she has excelled in both would actually be an understatement, as Amy, pictured above by Cal Carson Golf Agency at the 2012 Curtis Cup match at Nairn Golf Club,  is quite the over-achiever.
Amy and her brother Nathan, who is 19 months older, grew up in the small town of Oxbow, North Dakota. where they were home-schooled by their parents.
Amy quickly became a child golf prodigy, winning multiple city, state and high school events. Just after graduating high school, she won the 2009 U.S. Junior Girls Amateur Championship in just her second national golf event.
While the win may have come too late for many colleges to recruit Amy, North Dakota State University recognized the local talent and convinced her to join the Bison roster.

Fresh out of college with a degree in accounting and currently studying for her CPA certification, Amy is playing this week at the LPGA’s Final Qualifying Tournament. Having won the Stage II LPGA Qualifying Tournament in Venice, Florida, Amy entered the week with a rather relaxed approach.
“I’m excited and a little nervous,” said Amy. “Golf is just so up and down. Obviously, at second stage I was playing really well and that was really fun. Then you have those weeks where you struggle and it’s just really frustrating. But that’s just part of golf and part of the journey and there’s nothing you can do about that. I’m just excited to get started.
Amy says her unwavering faith has been the foundation of her golf pursuits, and the reason she made it from being a small town hero to competing for a chance to earn LPGA or Symetra Tour status for the 2014 season.  
“For me, my faith and honouring the Lord when I’m on the golf course or when I’m at home or wherever I am, that’s my ultimate purpose is to honour and glorify God and to show his love to other people,” said Amy. 
“That’s why I’m out here. I feel like God puts us in certain places to show His love to people around us, so if he wants me to do that on the LPGA or the Symetra Tour that’s kind of why I play.”