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Sunday 13 August 2006AmateurYear in Review
Kim wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, North Plains, Oregon · Monday 7 to Sunday 13 August 2006 · 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, then 64-player match play to a 36-hole final on Sunday Aug. 13 (USGA media guide dates Aug. 7-13; ASAP)
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
14 h 02 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 59° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R132°/16°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R227°/13°C · wind 10 km/h WNW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R324°/16°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R425°/14°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R522°/11°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R627°/10°C · wind 14 km/h NNW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R732°/14°C · wind 16 km/h NNW, gusts 36 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
The name over time
- U.S. Women's Amateur
1895–2026 in our record, 126 editions.
The ones it got away from
- Katharina Schallenberg GER · 1 upWas 5 up through 15 holes and 2 up at lunch; Kim drew level and led from the 30th; after Schallenberg holed a 25-foot birdie from the fringe at the par-5 36th, Kim holed a 5-footer for birdie to win (USGA; AP) 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur champion page (USGA uswamateur.org)
, 64 made it
Same week
Women's amateur championship
U.S. Women's Amateur
Pumpkin Ridge G.C. (Witch Hollow Course), North Plains
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Katharina Schallenberg
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
13 August 2006
Usually when I get down I get really upset, I just want to give up and just quit. But today I just wanted to come back and I wanted to win the gold.
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
14 August 2006
I got to a point where I decided I wanted to win. Before, if I fell behind, I would, like, just give up.
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
13 August 2006
I just made a couple mistakes, maybe. Or the balls didn't bounce, they could have bounced better, I guess. And we weren't reading the greens as well as Kimberly and Frank did, yeah.
The golfer
born 1991-08-23, Hilo, Hawaii; USA; turned pro 2010; age 14 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet