RiverCrest Golf & Preserve’s Suzi Spotleson fired 4-over-par 76 to claim medalist honors in U.S. Women’s Senior Amateur Qualifying administered by GAP at Northampton Country Club (par 72, 5,706 yards) Wednesday.
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Birdies on Nos. 11 (par 5, 446 yards) and 18 (par 4, 315 yards) allowed the 55-year-old, Canton, Ohio resident to lead the field of 17 players by three shots.
The day’s cut line stopped at 11-over-par 83. Cedarbrook Country Club’s Diana Cardano-Casacio edged RiverCrest’s Lisa Klein in a sudden-death playoff for the final qualifying spot.
The U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship will be contested July 30-Aug. 4 at Anchorage Golf Course located in Anchorage, Alaska. This will be the first USGA Championship hosted in the state. A total of 415 entrants will be comprised of exempt players and qualifiers from 25 qualifying events across the country. The low 64 players after Day One’s stroke play round will qualify for match play.
GAP
Celebrating Amateur Golf since 1897, GAP, also known as the Golf Association of Philadelphia, is the oldest regional or state golf association in the United States. It serves as the principal ruling body of amateur golf in its region. The Association’s 330 Member Clubs and 90,000 individual members are spread across Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey and Maryland. The GAP’s mission is to promote, preserve and protect the game of golf.
| Qualifiers | |
| Name, city, state | Score |
| Suzi Spotleson, Canton, Ohio | 76 |
| Susan Sardi, Skillman, N.J. | 79 |
| Loraine Jones, Newtown square, Pa. | 81 |
| Johanna Kung, Wilmington, Del. | 81 |
| *Diane Cardano-Casacio, Flourtown, Pa. | 83 |
| Alternates (in order) | |
| *Lisa Klein, Wayne, Pa. | 83 |
| Linda Erkert-Bullock, Milford, N.J. | 84 |
| Failed to qualify | |
| Megan Grosky McGowan, Blue Bell, Pa. | 85 |
| Barbara Close, Princeton, N.J. | 86 |
| Alicia Ann Kapheim, Pennington, N.J. | 87 |
| Ivy Steinberg, Canada | 88 |
| Eleanor Berry, Hackensack, N.J. | 89 |
| Lora Fioretti, Finksburg, Md. | 89 |
| Sandy Abbott, Doylestown, Pa. | 90 |
| Julie Smack, Wilmington, Del. | 93 |
| Muffy McCabe, Chester Springs, Pa. | 94 |
| Sarah Braendel, Mavern, Pa. | NS |
| * – determined in playoff; NS – no show |
