USGA Announces Groupings & Starting Times for Inaugural U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship


The USGA has announced the groupings and starting times for the first two rounds of the 2015 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship. The inaugural event starts May 9 at the 6,005-yard, par-72 Pacific Dunes course at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort.

The U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball consists of 36 holes of stroke play on May 9 and 10, after which the 64 sides (128 players) will be reduced to the low 32 teams (64 players) for match play. There will be five rounds of match play, starting May 11 with the first round. The second and quarterfinal rounds are slated for May 12. The semifinals will be played the morning of May 13, with the 18-hole championship match scheduled to follow at 1:30 p.m. PDT.

Saturday (May 9), hole No.1/Sunday (May 10), hole No. 1

7 a.m./10:24 a.m. - Mary Jane Hiestand, Naples, Fla./Tara Joy-Connelly, Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.; Lila Barton, Dallas, Texas/Marissa Mar, El Macero, Calif.
7:12 a.m./10:36 a.m. - Janet Weber, Las Vegas, Nev./Ronda Henderson, Las Vegas, Nev.; Madelein Herr, New Hope, Pa./Brynn Walker, St. Davids, Pa.
7:24 a.m./10:48 a.m. - Katie Miller, Jeannette, Pa./Amber Marsh Elliott, Greensboro, N.C.; Meghan Stasi, Oakland Park, Fla./Dawn Woodard, Greer, S.C.
7:36 a.m./11 a.m. - Megan Carter, Blackshear, Ga./Lauren Lightfritz, Suwanee, Ga.; Shawn Farmer, Bellevue, Wash./Christina Proteau, Canada
7:48 a.m./11:12 a.m. - Courtney Tincher, New York, N.Y./Marie Bos, New York, N.Y.; Madison Gerstle, Cincinnati, Ohio/Martha Leach, Hebron, Ky.
8 a.m./11:24 a.m. - Tara Fleming, Jersey City, N.J./Alicia Kapheim, Pennington, N.J.; Robynn Ree, Redondo Beach, Calif./Hannah O'Sullivan, Paradise Valley, Ariz.
8:12 a.m./11:36 a.m. - Barbara Byrnes, Mesa, Ariz./Donna Marden, Tucson, Ariz.; Angela Collins, Glendale, Calif./Kathy Kurata, Pasadena, Calif.
8:24 a.m./11:48 a.m. - Shirley Vaughn, Canton, Ohio/Gail Hackett, Canton, Ohio; Veronica Joels, Las Vegas, Nev./Morgan Goldstein, Las Vegas, Nev.
8:36 a.m./12 p.m. - Emily Campbell, Dallas, Texas/Cheyenne Knight, Aledo, Texas; Patricia Wong, Walnut, Calif./Katherine Muzi, Walnut, Calif.
8:48 a.m./12:12 p.m. - Christine Gagner, North Oxford, Mass./Mary Gale, Worcester, Mass.; Courtney Dow, Frisco, Texas/Brooke McDougald, The Woodlands, Texas
9 a.m./12:24 p.m. - Debbie Friede, Washougal, Wash./Michelle Lint, Cardiff-by-the-Sea, Calif.; Athena Yang, Winter Haven, Fla./Kendall Griffin, Sebring, Fla.
9:12 a.m./12:36 p.m. - Abby Portyrata, Richmond, Va./Lauren Greenlief, Oakton, Va.; Marni Murez, Manhattan Beach, Calif./Ashley Kim, Redondo Beach, Calif.
9:24 a.m./12:48 p.m. - Olivia Herrick, Roseville, Minn./Samantha Sommers, Sartell, Minn.; Briana Chacon, Whittier, Calif./Hannah Zeman, Ontario, Calif.
9:36 a.m./1 p.m. - Susana Vik, Greenwich, Conn./Camilla Vik, Greenwich, Conn.; Caryn Wilson, Rancho Mirage, Calif./Mina Hardin, Fort Worth, Texas
9:48 a.m./1:12 p.m. - Angel Yin, Arcadia, Calif./Muni He, People's Republic of China; Debra Mielke, McKinney, Texas/Amanda Pettit, Irving, Texas
10 a.m./1:24 p.m. - Connie Isler, Arlington, Va./Shelley Sanders, Fairfax, Va.; Eden Anderson, Oakland, Calif./Shannon Wolfe, Marina del Rey, Calif.
10:24 a.m./7 a.m. - Lacy Shelton, Overland Park, Kan./Sarah Davison, Choudrant, La.; Kate Grace, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif./Michelle Burgess, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
10:36 a.m./7:12 a.m. - Mallory Hetzel, Waynesville, N.C./Lea Venable, Laurens, S.C.; Kathleen Scavo, Benicia, Calif./Lucy Li, Redwood City, Calif.
10:48 a.m./7:24 a.m. - Julie Oxendine, Russellville, Ark./Carrie Hall, Hot Springs, Ark.; Shannon Oh, Oceanside, Calif./Texie June Petchel, Murrieta, Calif.
11 a.m./7:36 a.m. - Alyaa Abdulghany, Newport Beach, Calif./Ellen Takada, Irvine, Calif.; Carol Robertson, Blacksburg, Va./Corrie Myers, Palm Coast, Fla.
11:12 a.m./7:48 a.m. - Terese Romeo, Tampa, Fla./Mary Janiga, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Linda Jeffery, Abilene, Texas/Lea Green, McCalla, Ala.
11:24 a.m./8 a.m. - Jennifer Kupcho, Denver, Colo./Gillian Vance, Denver, Colo.; Kate Johnson, Chicago, Ill./Sarah Boockford, Glen Ellyn, Ill.
11:36 a.m./8:12 a.m. - Ty Akabane, Danville, Calif./Kailie Vongsaga, Walnut, Calif.; Brenda Pictor, Marietta, Ga./Susan Rheney, Greensboro, Ga.
11:48 a.m./8:24 a.m. - Sue Billek Nyhus, Salt Lake City, Utah/Annette Gaiotti, Salt Lake City, Utah; Kathleen (Kitty) Colliflower, Rochester, N.Y./Taffy Brower, Boynton Beach, Fla.
12 p.m./8:36 a.m. - Thuhashini Selvaratnam, Cave Creek, Ariz./Mari Miezwa, Chandler, Ariz.; Elizabeth Gilley Payne, Flossmoor, Ill./Margaret Gilley, Flossmoor, Ill.
12:12 p.m./8:48 a.m. - Angela Stewart, Greenville, N.C./Rachel Carpenter, St. Simon's Island, Ga.; Nina Whalen, Indianapolis, Ind./Michelle Smith, Fort Wayne, Ind.
12:24 p.m./9 a.m. - Jenny Graeser, Cedar Falls, Iowa/Katie Gustafson, Ames, Iowa; Maria Fassi, Mexico/Maria Balcazar, Mexico
12:36 p.m./9:12 a.m. - Lynn Thompson, Cincinnati, Ohio/Janie Klare, Cincinnati, Ohio; Alyssa Roland, New York, N.Y./Callie Kemmer, Washington, D.C.
12:48 p.m./9:24 a.m. - Mika Liu, Bradenton, Fla./Rinko Mitsunaga, Roswell, Ga.; Nancy Kromar, Austin, Texas/Beth Cleckler, Austin, Texas
1 p.m./9:36 a.m. - Catherine Dolan, Ballwin, Mo./Kelly Hutchison, St. Louis, Mo.; Gigi Stoll, Portland, Ore./Danielle Lee, La Mirada, Calif.
1:12 p.m./9:48 a.m. - Kim Titus, Gig Harbor, Wash./Kelly Gardner, Gig Harbor, Wash.; Angel Macleod, North Attleboro, Mass./Cheryl Popp, Westford, Mass.
1:24 p.m./10 a.m. - Ellen Oswald, New City, N.Y./Dani Mullin, West Islip, N.Y.; Carolyn Zhao, San Diego, Calif./Brooke Seay, San Diego, Calif.

For live scoring of the championship, visit www.uswomensamfourball.org. The above report is courtesy of the USGA. For more information, visit www.usga.org.