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Sunday 9 August 2009AmateurYear in Review
Song wins U.S. Women's Amateur
Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, Missouri · Monday 3 to Sunday 9 August 2009 · 36-hole stroke-play qualifying, then 64-player match play to a 36-hole final on Sunday Aug. 9 (USGA media guide dates Aug. 3-9; ASAP; AP)
The headline is set by GNN from the record. Reports from the papers of the day are below as they are found.
The weather
13 h 44 m
of daylight on the final day, the sun 67° up at noon, and that night a waning gibbous moon (computed from the date and the place).
- R133°/18°C · wind 17 km/h SSW, gusts 35 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R231°/22°C · wind 16 km/h SW, gusts 34 · 8.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R330°/21°C · wind 10 km/h NNE, gusts 21 · 0.3 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R429°/19°C · wind 10 km/h ENE, gusts 20 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R531°/20°C · wind 16 km/h SSE, gusts 38 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R634°/24°C · wind 19 km/h SSW, gusts 45 · 0 mm rainERA5 reanalysis at the course Open-Meteo, ERA5 reanalysis
- R735°/25°C · wind 17 km/h SSW, gusts 36 · 0.2 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
- Jennifer Johnson USA · 3 and 14 up through 10 holes of the morning 18 and never behind in her first five matches, she fell behind at the 19th, squared the match again, then lost the 33rd and 34th and failed to get up and down from a greenside bunker at the par-3 35th (AP) AnnArbor.com (AP)
, 64 made it
Same week
Women's amateur championship
U.S. Women's Amateur
Old Warson C.C., St. Louis
3 of 5 researched
Winner
Runner-up: Jennifer Johnson
To par not yet researched.
From the papers
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 August 2009
I may have looked calm outside, but there was like a volcano eruption going inside me body, and I was breathing hard, and I was going, like, oh my gosh calm down Jennifer
ASAP Sports (interview transcript)
9 August 2009
He said, remember, Jennifer, I ate a banana, which hole was that. I was like I don't know. He was like I was starving that hole.
AnnArbor.com (AP)
10 August 2009
I can't put into words how honored I am. It's been a long time since Pearl Sinn won two in one year in 1988, which is one year before I was even born.
The golfer
born 1989-12-20, Ann Arbor, Michigan; USA; turned pro 2010; age 19 that week.
Top 10
Not yet researched
What’s in the bag
No bag on file yet