University of North Carolina Athletics
Congratulations To Marcy Newton!!
August 12, 2000 | Women's Golf
Aug. 12, 2000
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Marcy Newton won the 100th U.S. Women's Amateur on Saturday, beating Laura Myerscough 8 and 7 in the 36-hole final at Waverley Country Club.
Newton, 22, of High Point, N.C., joins Dorothy Delasin, Kelli Kuehne, Pat Hurst, JoAnne Gunderson Carner and Patricia Lesser as the only women to win U.S. Amateur and U.S. Girls titles.
"It's such an honor to be a USGA champion two times now," said Newton, the recent University of North Carolina graduate who won the 1995 Girls championship.
"To be part of a short list, maybe five women, that have won the junior and the amateur, it's a dream come true."
Newton, who plans to turn pro, jumped in front with a birdie on the second hole. Myerscough stayed within two holes through the first 10, but Newton pushed her advantage to 6-up by the end of the morning round.
After the two players exchanged birdies on the first two holes of the afternoon round, Newton won the third, fifth and seventh holes to take a 9-up lead. Myerscough could do no better than halve the next four holes and when she conceded a bogey putt on No. 11, Newton had her second national amateur title in five years.
Myerscough, 20, of Charleston, Ill., won two of her first three tournament matches by 1-up scores, then had to go 19 holes to win her quarterfinal match against Lorena Ochoa of Mexico. This time there would be no chance for late-round heroics
Down by two going into the seventh hole of the morning round, the University of Arizona player went from the right rough on her drive to the left rough with her second shot. Her third shot, a greenside chip, hit a tree and bounced backward. It took her five strokes to reach the green on the par-4, 371-yard hole. Newton wound up with a birdie on that hole to go 3-up.
There was more trouble on No. 12 when Myerscough hooked her drive under a tree and wound up with a double bogey. That put Newton 4-up even though she hit her approach wide of the green and had to scramble for a par.
Newton parred the final two holes of the morning round and that was good enough to add two holes to her lead as Myerscough bogeyed and double bogeyed.
After shooting an 84 in the morning round, Myerscough realized she might have been nervous than she first thought.
"In my swing, I could tell myself that I wasn't nervous or tight, but I really was. It's like your body doesn't turn, so you're going to get some ugly shots. I didn't trust my swing. That's what you've got to do under the gun," said Myerscough, who was selected to the world amateur team after the tournament.
Newton was closing in on her victory by the time they got to the 27th hole. Both players left the par-3 hole with pars after Newton conceded Myerscough's 3-foot putt.
"I was 8-up with 10 holes or something like that to play," Newton said. "I didn't want that to make or break her. ... I didn't want to go one more up because of that little putt. It just felt like the right thing to do."
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