Daniel Miernicki’s 5 and 3 win over James Byrne
Saturday helped the U.S. regain the Palmer Cup.
Led by David Chung’s unbeaten
performance, the United States de-
feated Europe, 13-11, and claimed the
Palmer Cup at Royal Portrush Golf Club
in Northern Ireland. The victory was the
Americans’ first in Europe since 2002
and gives the U.S. a 7-6-1 overall advan-
tage in the series.
The 5-foot- 9, 150-pound Chung, a
sophomore at Stanford, stood tall all
week, going 4-0-0, to power the U.S.
effort. He closed out the weekend with
a 4 and 2 victory over Europe’s Henrik
Norlander on Saturday. It was just the
12th unbeaten and undefeated per-
formance in the 14-year history of the
Palmer Cup.
Europe fell behind 6-2 after the first
day of four-ball and foursomes, but ral-
lied on Friday to win five of eight singles
matches to close the deficit to 9-7. But
the best the hosts could do in the final
singles matches was a 4-4 split. Scott
Langley provided the clinching point with
a 1-up victory over Rhys Enoch.
RESULTS
of Houston, 3 and 2, in the Women’s
Amateur Public Links Championship
played on the par-71 Warren Golf Club
at Notre Dame in Indiana. After fall-
ing 2-down through five, Tubert, an
incoming freshman at the University of
Arkansas, won seven consecutive holes
beginning with a chip-in birdie at the
sixth. Four birdies and two pars later,
Tubert turned her early deficit into a
5-up lead through 12.
McCloskey rode a a hot putter on the
second 18. She birdied the 21st, 25th
and 27th holes to cut the lead to 4-up,
before Tubert again birdied her favorite
hole, the par- 5 10th, to stretch the lead
back to 5-up. After losing two more
holes to McCloskey, Tubert came to the
34th hole dormie-three. The hole was
halved with pars to give Tubert the title.
“It’s still been tough for me to be-
lieve I belong with these girls,” Tubert
said. “I’ve been playing for five years,
and to walk away with this national
championship victory is amazing.”
RESULTS
Travers defeated Harry Rudolph 4 and 3
for the California State Amateur crown
at Rancho Santa Fe Golf Club. Travers,
the 2010 West Coast Conference Player
of the Year out of Santa Clara Univer-
sity, picked up his biggest amateur win
to date, birdieing four of his first six
holes in the 36-hole final and picking up
an early lead that he maintained until
the 33rd and final hole. Travers, the No.
19 seed, took on the hometown favorite
and No. 5 seed Rudolph, 40, who was
the 1991 champion.
Rudolph is a reinstated amateur
who grew up playing golf with Phil
Mickelson and played on powerhouse
University of Arizona’s championship
golf team in the early 1990s. Rudolph
is the owner of Harry’s Coffee Shop in
La Jolla and he opened the shop every
morning at dawn before his 7:30 a.m.
tee times. He had more than 100 spec-
tators in attendance, including his mom
and four of his nine siblings.
RESULTS
Snee Farm Country Club in Mt. Pleas-
ant, S.C. Newman had to go five ex-
tra holes to claim the title, defeating
17-year-old Argentinean Jorge Fer-
nandez Valdes. Playing the 18th hole
for the fourth time, Newman chipped in
from the first cut to end the playoff and
take home the hardware. Both players
came from behind to tie at 12-under-
par 276 after 72 holes. Newman shot
a final-round 68, 4-under par, while
Valdes posted a 66. This was Newman’s
first individual title since junior golf.
RESULTS
the North Carolina Amateur Champion-
ship and a five-year exemption into all
other individual CGA championships in
which he is eligible.
RESULTS
TUBERT TAKES WOMEN’S PUBLINKS
TRAVERS WINS CALIFORNIA AMATEUR
NEWMAN REIGNS AT RICE PLANTERS
HEISEY CLAIMS NORTH CAROLINA AM
In just the first-match play champ-
ionship of her life, Emily Tubert, of Bur-
bank, Calif., defeated Lisa McCloskey,
After six days of battling, youth over-
came experience, as 22-year-old Scott
Carter Newman, a member of the
NCAA champion Augusta State golf
team, continued his good fortune with
a win at the Rice Planters Amateur at
STEGERS NOW SHARE INDIANA AMS
Thirty-five years after his father,
Scott, won the Indiana Amateur, Eric
Steger won his own, enabling the Ste-
gers to be the first father and son
champions in state history. The young-
er Steger beat defending champ Erik
Barnes in a one-hole playoff with a
birdie. The two finished regulation 72
holes tied at 3-under 277. Both Steger
and Barnes will turn pro this summer.
RESUSTS
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