Miller ties for 10th place at Georgia Women’s Amateur
Former Gordon Lee Lady Trojans golf standout Macall Miller shot rounds of 77, 78 and 76 to shoot 231 (15-over par) and finish in a tie for 10th place overall at the 2020 Georgia Women’s Amateur Championship, which concluded on Tuesday, July 21
The 91st championship was presented by the Georgia Women’s Golf Association and the Georgia State Golf Association and held at The Landings Club in Savannah on the Oakridge Course.
Miller said she was excited about how high up on the leaderboard she finished.
“It’s actually really exciting because when my dad and I took my practice round, we realized after the first few holes that it was going to be a really hard course and there wasn’t going to be very many low scores,” she explained. “So I knew if I put together three solid rounds, I had a really good chance of placing well at the end.”
Miller played in four of six events for NCAA Division II University of Montevallo (Ala.) this past season as the Falcons won one event, was runner-up in another and finished tied for sixth or better in five of six tournaments.
In her four starts, Miller had a 79.13 stroke average with a low round of 76. Her best finish of the season came in what turned into the season’s final event, the Wingate University Low Country Invitational in Bluffton, S.C. in early March, where she finished in a tie for 18th place. The Falcons’ final three tournaments of the season were cancelled.
“I was really pleased with how I played,” she added. “Going in, it was really kind of intimidating just with all the new atmosphere and everything. But I knew that once I got comfortable and relaxed that my game would really start developing pretty well and it did. After the first few tournaments in the fall, I got play some more events and I was really pleased how I played in all of them.
“Going into the spring, my game really started to come together. Obviously, our season was cut short, but that last tournament in South Carolina was actually my two best rounds that I put together. I was really happy with the way it went.”
A four-time Walker County Player of the Year, Miller was the 2017 individual state champion and a past state runner-up, while she helped Gordon Lee take home the state team runner-up trophy in her final two seasons.
Sara Im of Duluth won the Georgia Women’s Amateur in dramatic fashion, defeating Thienna Huynh of Liburn in a seven-hole playoff after both golfers finished their three rounds at 3-over par.
The two were tied following a three-hole aggregate playoff and four more additional individual playoff holes were ultimately be needed. Both golfers would par the first two holes and birdie the third before Im finally won on the final hole with a birdie that Huynh could not match.
Former Murray County and current Kennesaw State golfer Tori Owens (72-7574) placed fourth at 5-over par overall.