59 th US women's Senior Amateur Golf Championship

59th  US Senior Women's Amateur  Golf Championship

 

Triple Crown: Tennant Captures Third Consecutive USGA Title

５９th　US senior women's Amateur  Golf Championship

Triple Crown: Tennant Captures Third Consecutive USGA Title

US Senior アマチュア選手権、見事、３連覇　驚異のゴルフ経歴であろう。 

以下、USGA のリポートである。

Lara Tennant, of Portland, Ore., the No. 1 seed and the two-time defending champion, outlasted seven-time USGA champion Ellen Port, 2 and 1, in the 18-hole final of the 59th U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship Thursday on the Dogwood Course at The Lakewood Club.

Tennant, who won this championship in 2018 and 2019 (the 2020 championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic), had a 1-up lead when the final resumed on Thursday morning, after drenching rains from Tropical Storm Nicholas postponed the match with just two holes completed the previous day. The course played to 5,491 yards and a par of 71 on Thursday, with the par-4 fourth hole playing as a par 3 due to course conditions.

“I love that trophy; it’s so beautiful, and it’s been at my house for quite a while, because of COVID and winning the two previous years, so I’ve gotten kind of attached to it,” said Tennant, 54, at the post-match ceremony. “It’ll go in the front entry, where it’s been now for three years, as a beautiful reminder of how lucky I am.”

The triumph makes Tennant the 12th player in USGA history to win a championship at least three consecutive times. Carol Semple Thompson, who won this championship four times in a row (1999-2002), is the last to do so in any championship. Thompson competed this week, but missed the cut by two strokes at age 72.

Tennant played like she didn’t want to relinquish the trophy, affectionately dubbed “Big Bertha,” as she birdied the fourth and fifth holes and barely missed making a third straight birdie on No. 6 that would have given her a 3-up advantage. But Port answered with her own birdie on No. 7 and won the ninth when Tennant found the water with her approach shot on the 346-yard par 4 and made double bogey.

 

PLAYERS TO HAVE WON THREE OR MORE CONSECUTIVE TITLES IN SAME USGA EVENT

NAME	YEARS	USGA CHAMPIONSHIP
+-Lara Tennant	2018-2019, 2021	U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
Willie Anderson	1903-05	U.S. Open
Glenna Collett	1928-30	U.S. Women's Amateur
^-Carolyn Cudone	1968-72	U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
Beatrix Hoyt	1896-98	U.S. Women's Amateur
Juli Inkster	1980-82	U.S. Women's Amateur
Carl Kauffmann	1927-29	U.S. Amateur Public Links
Hollis Stacy	1969-71	U.S. Girls' Junior
*-Alexa Stirling	1916, 1919-20	U.S. Women's Amateur
Carol Semple Thompson	1999-2002	U.S. Senior Women's Amateur
Virginia Van Wie	1932-34	U.S. Women's Amateur
Tiger Woods	1991-93 1994-96	U.S. Junior Amateur U.S. Amateur

+-No U.S. Senior Women's Amateur conducted in 2020 due to COVID-19

事実２０２０年は、コロナ蔓延のため、中止されたので、２０２１年が加わった。

　タイガーのジュニア選手権とアマ選手権、２世代の３連覇は、まさに金字塔である。

ジュリインクスターの功績もすばらしい。現在でも、活躍しているのだから、