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COLLEGE GOLF
Record Breaking Weekend Sets Tide Up for SEC Championships
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. - The Alabama women's golf team used a record setting performance to take a commanding lead after 36 holes. Alabama shot a school record round of 282 (-6) Saturday at the Ol' Colony Golf Complex. After two rounds, Alabama sports a 582 (+6) and leads second place LSU by 26 strokes at the Crimson Tide Classic.
Junior Kathleen Ekey led the charge for the Tide after posting her career best at Alabama with a 66 (-6). After 36 holes, the Wadsworth, Ohio native leads the field with a 138 (-6).
Freshman Camilla Lennarth continued her stellar tournament play with a 69 (-3). It's the second consecutive round the Stockholm, Sweden native has shot under par. Lennarth currently sits in second with a 139 (-5).
Playing as individuals, the duo of senior Sarah Sturm and freshman Courtney Harter entered the clubhouse in the top five. Sturm finished with a 74 (+2) and after 36 holes completed, sports an even-par-144 to sit in fourth place. Harter finished round two with a 70 (-2) and closely follows Sturm with a 148 (+4) in fifth place.
Sophomore Rhea Nair moved into the top 10 after a second round score of 74 (+2). Nair has a 36 hole score of 152 (+8) to sit tied for ninth overall.
Sophomore Helena Blomberg finished her second round with a 73 (+1) to move up to 14th place with a 153 (+9). Junior Laura Goodwin fired a 78 (+6) and is tied for 35th with a 159 (+15).
Rounding out the Tide as an individual is freshman Kelley VanDenburg. The Brockport, N.Y. native finished with a 84 (+12) and has a 36 hole score of 173 (+29).
Golfers Cydney Clanton and Nicole Hage Begin Play At U.S. Open Thursday
Cydney Clanton
AUBURN - Freshman All-American Cydney Clanton and former four-time All-American Nicole Hage will begin play at the 2008 U.S. Women's Open Thursday. The four-day tournament is being played at the par 73, 6,789-yard Interlachen Country Club in Edina, Minn.
Hage (Coral Springs, Fla.) will tee off #10 Thursday at 9:12 a.m. CT with Aiko Yoshida (Japan) and Jessica Korda (Czech Republic). The trio will begin on #1 Friday at the same time. Clanton (Concord, N.C.) will tee off #10 Thursday at 2:20 p.m. CT with Chieko Amanuma (Japan) and Ashely Simon (South Africa). The group will start on #1 at the same time Friday.
The 72-hole event will see the field of 156 trimmed to the lowest 60 and ties, plus anyone within 10 strokes of the leader following the second round. All rounds of the tournament can be viewed live on www.uswomensopen.com.
ESPN will have live coverage on Thursday from 12 to 4 p.m. ET and on Friday from 3 to 7 p.m. ET. NBC will broadcast live on Saturday and Sunday from 3 to 6 p.m. ET.
The U.S. Women's Open began in 1946 and is the longest-running event on the LPGA tour. It is one of four major LPGA championships. The official web site is www.2008uswomensopen.com.
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2008 US Amateur Entries
University of Alabama
Weaver Joins Swan and Cauley Among Golf's Elite Field
Aug. 5, 2008
TUSCALOOSA - Tuscaloosa native Phillip Weaver will join his University of Alabama teammates Matthew Swan and incoming freshman Bud Cauley among the field at the 2008 United States Amateur Championship .
One more Alabama golfer is waiting to find out his fate in the field. Montgomery's Hunter Hamrick is playing in the Atlanta qualifier today (Tuesday). Hamrick graduated from high school early, in December of 2007, and enrolled at Alabama in January 2008 and was a redshirt freshman on the 2008 team.
Weaver, who will begin his second season at Alabama later this month, qualified on Monday at The Colonial Golf Club in Memphis, Tenn. The 2007 Northridge High School graduate shot 68-65 to advance.
Matthew Swan, Alabama's All-Southeastern Conference golfer from Montgomery, will be making his fourth career appearance at the U.S. Amateur. Swan, who will be a senior, qualified on July 23 in Atlanta, Ga., at the Piedmont Driving Club. A force behind Alabama's national team success, Swan has already played in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 U.S. Amateur Championships. The first time he qualified was as a high school senior. He'll be a senior on the Crimson Tide's golf team this fall. He and former Tide golfer Kelly Miller are Alabama's four-time U.S. Amateur participants.
Bud Cauley is an incoming freshman on the Tide team. The Jacksonville, Fla., native was co-champion of the 2008 Toyota World Junior Cup in Japan earlier this summer. Cauley qualified for the 2008 U.S. Amateur on July 28 at Sawgrass Country Club in Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla.
The 2008 U.S. Amateur Championship will be held August 18-24 at Pinehurst Resort in Village of Pinehurst, N.C.
Crimson Tide golf has been well-represented at the U.S. Amateur over the decades with the two outstanding finishes. Jerry Pate was the 1974 U.S. Amateur champion, winning it just before he started his senior season at Alabama. Last August Alabama's Michael Thompson advanced to the U.S. Amateur final. He was a senior on the 2008 team. Cecil Ingram was a U.S. Amateur semifinalist in 1979 and also competed in the tournament in 1980. Tuscaloosa native Dicky Pride was a semifinalist in 1992 as a UA golfer. Now on the PGA Tour, Pride played in the 1990 U.S. Amateur as well. Crimson Tide participants at the U.S. Amateur have included Wayne Davis (1965), Charles "Bubba" Major, Jim Kilduff (1976, 1979), Jim Kelson (1982), Alan Pope (1984), Griff Rudolph (1984), Spike McRoy (1989), Jeff Street (1980), Sam Farlow (1985), Greg Letson (1992, 1995), Kelly Miller (1993, 1994, 1996, 1997), Chip Deason (1993, 1996), Scott Taylor (1993), Jeff Amershadian (1993), Patrick Vadden (1994, 1997), Mayson Petty (1995), John Stahlschmidt (1996), Tim Arnoult (1997), Wes Vance (1999), Chip Zahn (1999), Nick Rousey (1999), Rich Berglund (2002), Austin Hynson (2001), Clint Provost (2002, 2005), Daniel Creel (2003), Thomas Hagler (2003, 2006), Max Alverio (2004), Sean Szerencits (2004), Mark Harrell (2005, 2006, 2007), Matthew Swan (2004, 2005, 2006, 2008), Joseph Sykora (2005) and Matt Hughes (2007).
Cauley Wins Junior World Cup as Co-Medalist
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Bud Cauley in play in Japan earlier this week.
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June 21, 2008
TUSCALOOSA - His final round score of 70 did not count toward the team score after a couple of his teammates stepped up in Saturday's final round, but University of Alabama incoming freshman Bud Cauley's final round score was still good enough to make him co-champion of the 2008 Toyota Junior World Cup.
Cauley, a native of Jacksonville, Fla., was one of four Junior golfers representing the USA in the tournament held in Toyota City, Japan. The 16 national teams gathered came from regional qualifiers held across six continents. More than 60 national teams were originally represented to determine the world champion, which was Norway. Norway won the cup by three strokes over defending champions Sweden. It is the fourth straight year the competition has been held at Chukyo Golf Club's Ishino Course.
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