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Georgia taking on the best amateurs
CURRENT Tasmanian women’s team member Georgia Milbourne will tee up next week in the Queensland Women’s Stroke Play Championship.
The Tasmania Golf Club member will take on Australia’s best amateurs at the McLeod Country Golf Club from August 26-28.
Meanwhile, fellow Tasmania Golf Club member Timothy Smith and Kingston Beach’s Nathan Gatehouse will represent Tasmania next month in Western Australia.
The pair will tee up in the Mandurah Amateur Open at the Mandurah Country Club from September 8-10.
The event has a rich history in Australian amateur golf with previous winners including Brett Rumford (1997) and 2006 US Open champion Geoff Ogilvy (1998).
The last Tasmanian to win the Golf Australia national ranking event was Wynyard’s Paul Marshall in 1995. THE most prestigious tournament in men’s amateur golf, the US Amateur, tees off this week at Pebble Beach and Spyglass Hill.
The US Amateur has been a happy hunting ground for Australian golfers, most notably and recently Curtis Luck.
However, next week, another West Australian will lead eight Australian hopefuls into battle. Min Woo Lee, of Royal Fremantle, has twice played the event and twice missed out on reaching the match play phase, a trend he is desperate to change. The former US Junior champion is 12th in the world amateur rankings.
Other Aussies include Victoria’s David Micheluzzi and Zach Murray, New South Wales’ Nathan Barbieri, Dylan Perry and Blake Windred, and Queensland’s Charlie Dann and Shae Wools-Cobb. MELBOURNE’S Stephanie Bunque advanced to the match play phase of the US Women’s Amateur at the Golf Club of Tennessee last week.
Bunque’s second-round 69 gave her a two-under total and a share of 22nd place before the match play seedings.
Bunque teed off against American Lauren Stephenson in the round of 64 but was unsuccessful, losing to the South Carolina native 1-down.
American Lucy Li became just the third player to earn medal honours at both the US Girls’ Junior and US Women’s Amateur in the same year.
The 15-year-old shared a nine-under-par total with 17year-old Korean Selin Hyun.
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