Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club invites you to join us August 7 through August 13, 2006 for the 106th U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship.
Location Conducted by the United States Golf Association at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, located
just outside Portland, Ore.
Dates Aug. 7-13
Admission Admission and parking for all seven days of the championship are free of charge
Field 156 Female Amateurs
Format 36-hole stroke play qualifying; field is cut to low 64 for Match Play
Television Match-play rounds will be telecast on The Golf Channel
2005 Champion
Morgan Pressel, 17, of Boca Raton, Florida won the 2005 U.S. Women's Amateur with a 9-and-8 victory over Maru Martinez. The victory capped an amazing summer for the 17-year-old Floridian, who tied for low amateur at the U.S. Women's Open and reached the third round of the U.S. Girls' Junior.
For the Winner
The champion receives a gold medal and custody of the Robert Cox Cup for the ensuing year. The runner-up receives a silver medal; the other semifinalists receive bronze medals. The champion receives an exemption from sectional qualifying for U.S. Women’s Amateur Championships for the next 10 years, if otherwise available; an exemption from sectional qualifying for 10 years to the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship, if otherwise eligible; an exemption from sectional qualifying for the next 10 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, if otherwise eligible; an exemption from sectional qualifying for the next two U.S. Women’s Open Championships, if still an amateur and an exemption from local qualifying for future U.S. Women’s Open Championships, if still an amateur.
Consecutive Wins
Several Women’s Amateur champions have recorded three consecutive wins. Glenna Collett Vare, Beatrix Hoyt, Alexa Stirling, Virginia Van Wie, and Juli Simpson Inkster won the Women’s Amateur three times consecutively. Genevieve Hecker, Dorothy Campbell, Margaret Curtis, Betty Jameson, Kay Cockerill, and Kelli Kuehne won the championship two times in a row. Glenna Collett Vare won the Women’s Amateur title a record six times. JoAnne Gunderson Carner won the championship five times and won an impressive total of eight USGA Championships (five Women’s Amateur titles, two U.S. Women’s Opens, and one U.S. Girls’ Junior).
Other Prominent Past Champions
Patty Berg, 1938; Betty Jameson, 1939, 1940; Babe Didrickson Zaharias, 1946; Louise Suggs, 1947; Beth Daniel, 1975, 1977; Juli Simpson (Inkster), 1980, 1981, 1982; Pat Hurst, 1990; Kelli Kuehne, 1995, 1996; Grace Park, 1998; Dorothy Delasin, 1999.
