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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).

  1. R132°/16°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 40 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  2. R227°/13°C · wind 10 km/h WNW, gusts 31 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  3. R324°/16°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 34 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  4. R425°/14°C · wind 16 km/h NW, gusts 42 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  5. R522°/11°C · wind 13 km/h NNW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  6. R627°/10°C · wind 14 km/h NNW, gusts 37 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
  7. 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

  1. 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

Kimberly Kim

1 upFinal
1 upMargin

Runner-up: Katharina Schallenberg

To par not yet researched.

From the papers

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

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.

Kimberly Kim, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 13 August 2006. The report

Honolulu Star-Bulletin

I got to a point where I decided I wanted to win. Before, if I fell behind, I would, like, just give up.

Kimberly Kim, quoted in Honolulu Star-Bulletin, 14 August 2006. The report

ASAP Sports (interview transcript)

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.

Katharina Schallenberg, quoted in ASAP Sports (interview transcript), 13 August 2006. The report
The golfer

born 1991-08-23, Hilo, Hawaii; USA; turned pro 2010; age 14 that week.

Kimberly Kim’s player card · Source

Top 10

Not yet researched

What’s in the bag

No bag on file yet