YOUNG NSW golfer Ella Skaysbrook has come agonisingly near profitable her approach into the ultimate of the US Ladies’s Novice Championship.
The 19-year-old from Newcastle, a member of the NSW Golf Excessive Efficiency squad and now enjoying out of the Australian Golf Membership, Skaysbrook was 4-up after 12 holes towards the world’s No. 7 ranked novice Megha Ganne of their semi-final match, earlier than being crushed on the nineteenth gap. Ganne would go on to beat Brooke Biermann within the 36-hole remaining.
Whereas it was a heartbreaking finish for Skaysbrook, she had impressed all through the week at Bandon Dunes in Oregon on the occasion that includes the most effective girls’s novice golfers from 17 completely different nations and 35 US states.
“It means rather a lot as a result of I used to be 63 seed, so I didn’t even have a spot. To make to the semifinals particularly means rather a lot,” Scaysbrook informed USGA media after her loss.
“I’m simply actually pleased with myself now that I’m one the most effective I suppose, I can compete with the most effective.”
After sneaking into the highest 64 by way of a 15 gamers for six spots playoff, Skaysbrook made a right away affect with a first-up 6&4 win over second seeded American Asterisk Talley.
From there she was dominant in registering 4&3 victories in rounds two and three, earlier than beating Canadian Taylor Kehoe 5&4 within the quarter finals.
Whereas it was Skaysbrook who made the largest impression, fellow Australians Jazzy Roberts and Momo Sugiyama additionally carried out strongly.
Roberts completed in a tie for seventh within the 36-hole stroke play qualifying occasion with a six-under par whole, three photographs behind joint medallists, Talley and Filipino Rianne Malixi.
After profitable her first match on the nineteenth gap, Roberts was eradicated within the spherical of 32.
As for Sugiyama, like Roberts additionally from the Gold Coast however presently enjoying her golf at Purdue College within the US, consecutive rounds of 71 noticed her positioned properly contained in the reduce off for the highest 64 to qualify for the matchplay rounds. Sugiyama was then crushed 4&3 in her spherical one match.
