The United States had not hosted the Espirito Santo trophy at the Worldwide amateur team championship for women Since 2018, and they had to rely on a strange tie graker to break that series on Saturday in Singapore.
When the dust settled in Tanah Merah Country Club on Sunday, the United States, Spain and the Republic of Korea were all bound at the rankings at the age of 18. Despite the draw, there is no sudden dood play-off or special match play tiebraker. Instead, it is amateur for ladies world championships, it is the thing that normally does not count that the difference turns out to be.
When the 72-hole scores are the same, the tiebreaker is the lowest non-counting score.
In this case, that map of Stanford star Megha Ganne, who shot an Even-Par 72 in the third round. It was a tiebreaker on which Team USA was willing to lean on, if necessary, when the week started.
“We are more than happy. We can’t do this often to play for the country, so we were just excited to be here,” said Ganne, who won the American amateur championship in August. “We were so impressed by the level of Golf from Korea and Spain. It is a heartbreaking tiebreak for them, but we knew that the third score could matter yesterday and today.”
“We talked about it as a team that could possibly amount to the third score,” said Farah O’Keefe, a junior in Texas. “And so I think we were all prepared all week that everyone counted and when the last putt dropped, it just happened, then a third score counted. And so the fact that we were prepared was enormous.”
The first Tiebreker is the lowest non-counting score for the final round, but when Catherine Park, a senior at USC, made a Birdie on the 18th hole to match Carolina Lopez-Chacarra with a 71, the tiebreaker moved to the lowest non-counting score of the third round, who went to Ganne, who went to Ganne, who went to Ganne, who went to Ganne.
“With my lines of official background, I was very aware of the tie-breaking element,” said the American captain Kendra Graham, who worked in rules and competitions for the USGA. “The first phone call I had with each of them, I told them that every player was in it every day … If it ever comes to a tie -graker, we will go to that score.”
The Americans followed Korea with three shots that came in the final round, but knew that the shortage could be deleted quickly.
“We all knew that three shots were nothing,” said Ganne. “That’s just that a hole is when we all bird, so we just tried to play the best wave we could play, each of us.”
They did exactly that.
Ganne led the team with a bogey-free Sunday 68, while O’Keefe and Park both shots 71 to bind the game, with the closing of eight foot Birdie of the park that it was up and the US handed the trophy via Tiebreker.
“I’m just so happy,” said Park. “It is the pressure to make that eight-footer and then to know that we won was incredible. It was a dream that was here with them and win this trophy.”
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