It was a powerful ultimate spherical for Vanderbilt sophomore Tillie Claggett.
She fired a tournament-record 9-under 61 on Sunday to win the ladies’s division of the 2023 Patriot All-America, a year-end novice event full of loads of the very best amateurs from throughout the nation in Litchfield Park, Arizona.
Claggett entered the ultimate spherical six pictures again of the lead, however 9 birdies afterward the Wigwam’s blue course she walked away together with her identify within the report books and the Folded Flag trophy and Bomber jacket.
“I’ve sort of been ready for a person win since I moved out of my junior profession into my novice profession, so this positively feels good,” Claggett stated.
She completed at 12-under 198 for the event, two pictures in entrance of South Florida’s Melanie Inexperienced, the 36-hole chief.
In the meantime, Florida junior Ian Gilligan shot 2-under 68 within the ultimate spherical on the Golf Course to cap his wire-to-wire victory, ending at 12 underneath. He bested Notre Dame’s Parker Jackson, the occasion’s solely five-time participant, by three pictures.
“It hasn’t sunk in but, however I’m stoked,” stated Gilligan, the reigning Massive West Convention particular person champion. “I didn’t get off to an incredible begin – it was a bit of gradual – however I caught round and waited for my alternatives. I used to be fortunate to get a gap out, which helped, after which hung in there on the finish. However I’m extraordinarily to win this occasion.”
The Patriot All-America Invitational options PING All-People from the earlier season in NCAA Divisions I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA; in addition to 2022 First Workforce All-America Seniors from the AJGA and different particular invitees. The 54-hole novice occasion is called the primary of its form to mix the abilities of 150 nationally acknowledged women and men golfers concurrently at one event.
Carried out in a partnership with the GCAA, WGCA, the West Valley Mavericks, The Patriot All-America LLC and the Arizona Golf Affiliation, The Patriot All-America honors fallen or severely wounded troopers and first responders in collaboration with the Folds of Honor Basis. The golfers obtain a golf bag offered by PING Company on the occasion’s opening ceremony emblazoned with the identify and department of service of a fallen or injured army member whom they shall signify. Members additionally obtain a card with the soldier’s story to allow them to grow to be conversant in that soldier. The golf luggage are then offered by the gamers’ school or college with proceeds donated to Folds of Honor to help the households affected.
