Meghan Stasi is forced to get a new partner but defends her title anyway
BY GARY CURRERI, Special to GGP
HOLLYWOOD, FLA. | Meghan Stasi
and Donna Mummert literally left
their opponents in the dark in
capturing the 64th Women’s International Four Ball championship at the
Orangebrook Golf and Country Club
last week.
Stasi, a two-time U.S. Women's
Mid-Amateur champion, and Mum-
mert, the USA Team Manager for
the 2008 Curtis Cup Team, needed
24 holes to finish off Alli Jarrett and
Laura Coble in a marathon match
that ended in darkness.
Williams Wins 2010 NSW Medal
Michael Williams withstood the test of time and
won the 2010 New South Wales Medal played at
both Newcastle and Muree Golf Clubs in Aus-
tralia. With a final score of 15-under-par 273,
Williams ended two shots clear of second place
finisher Yeon Jin Jong of Waverly Golf Club, who
fired a final round 4-under-par 68 for a 13-under-
par 275 total. Tim Hart finished in third place at
11-under-par 276. The players were put through
the ringer this week playing 72 holes in three
days. Day One and Two were 18 holes with the
field being cut to a maximum of 60 players plus
ties. The third day was a 36-hole marathon to
decide the winner. RESULTS
PLAYING GOLF IN FLORIDA
SURE BEATS COLD WEATHER
Meghan Stasi, 32, of Oakland Park,
Fla., invited Donna Mummert when
Dawn Woodard informed her she would
be on a ski trip and unable to play.
“I just need to take a quick look at the
calendar and my work schedule and we
were all set from there,” said Mum-
mert, a 34-year-old assistant director
with the USGA. “There were really no
second thoughts about it.”
“You want to get anyone from New
Jersey who doesn’t get a chance to play
very much at this time of year,” Stasi
added. “I thought she’d jump at the
chance to play golf in Florida.”
There wasn’t much jumping for Mum-
mert when she arrived. Mummert
nearly didn’t make the trip from Leba-
non, N.J., to south Florida because of a
badly sprained ankle.
a laugh. “I like to end my matches
a lot earlier. This title means a lot.
Just to continue the success in South
Florida and to continue to play in
front of your friends and my hus-
band was out there was really great.
It was a strong field and it was a
blast.”
The championship match was back
and forth from the start with neither
team able to go more than 1-up dur-
ing the round. With Jarrett and Coble
1-up on the 17th hole, Mummert sank
a 40-footer to tie the match when Jar-
rett missed a six-footer to remain 1-up.
Both teams tied 18 with pars, and Jar-
rett drained a 30-footer for birdie on
the 19th hole, and Stasi answered with
a seven-footer for birdie to extend the
match. The teams exchanged pars on
the next four holes to set the stage for
the final hole.
“The darkness was coming so we
said this was the final hole no matter
what,” said Stasi, who was playing in
the championship match for the third
consecutive year. “We would probably
have had to come out the next day (to
finish). We wanted to end it there.”
Two-time U.S. Senior Women's
Amateur champion Diane Lang, of
Weston, Fla. and Maggie Weder, of
Greenville, N.C., were the medalists in
qualifying as they teamed for a better-
ball 71. Stasi and Mummert were one
back.
MAJID MAGIC AT SELANGOR AMATEUR OPEN
Mohamad Hisyam Abdul Majid fired a final round
even-par 72 to win the 2010 Selangor Amateur
Open in Malaysia. Majid ended with a 1-over-par
217 total, two ahead of Gavin Green who carded
a strong final round of 2-under-par 70 to finish
at 3-over-par 219. With this win, Majid is auto-
matically qualified to compete in the Mayabank
Malaysian Open to be held at Kuala Lumpur Golf
& Country Club Mar. 4-7. And thanks to a strong
finish, Green also qualified to play in the Malay-
sian Open. Korean Kim Dong Hyeon finished third
at 6-over 222, followed by Mohamad Iszaimi at
7-over 223. Iszaimi was also selected to play in
the Malaysian Open. RESULTS
Stasi and Mummert defeated Mary
Hanyak and Marianne Springer, both
of Wellington, Fla., 6 and 5 to advance
to the final, while Jarrett, director of
regional affairs of seven states for the
USGA, based out of Houston, and Co-
ble, a five-time winner of the Georgia
Women’s Amateur, eliminated Lang
and Weder, 3 and 2 in their semifinal
match in the longest running women's
amateur event held at the same loca-
tion in the United States. RESULTS
MANTOVANINI AND CAMMISA WIN IN BRAZIL
