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Yahoo
03-04-2025
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Ohio State golfer Kary Hollenbaugh makes final round of Augusta National Women's Amateur
Ohio State golfer Kary Hollenbaugh will compete in the final round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur on Saturday, having shot 2-under par 70 on each of the first two days of the tournament. Hollenbaugh is in a three-way tie for ninth place (140), five shots behind co-leaders Kiara Romero and Lottie Woad. Advertisement The top 30 golfers plus ties made the cut for Saturday's final round. Ohio State junior golfer Kary Hollenbaugh, a graduate of New Albany, tees off during a practice round Tuesday, prior to the Augusta National Women's Amateur. Hollenbaugh, a junior at OSU and graduate of New Albany who has won three events this season for the Buckeyes, had four birdies, two bogeys and 12 pars in each of the first two rounds. She is one of four golfers in the 71-woman field to have shot the same score Wednesday and Thursday. The final round will be played at Augusta National, the site of The Masters, which takes place April 10-13. The first two were at Champions Retreat Golf Club. Hollenbaugh was OSU's top scorer as a sophomore, finishing with a team-leading 71.69 average, one tournament victory and five rounds in the 60s. That was almost two full shots better than her average as a freshman. Ohio State golfer Kary Hollenbaugh gives a tee to a young fan during the first round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur on Wednesday. Earlier Thursday, Hollenbaugh was named one of three Big Ten women's golfers of the week, along with Purdue's Natasha Keil and Northwestern's Dianna Lee, after winning the Clemson Invitational. Hollenbaugh scored a career-best 200 with three rounds in the 60s, including a 64 in the final round. Advertisement She has earned the conference honor three times since Feb. 6. Hollenbaugh was part of four Division I state championships at New Albany from 2018-21 and shot a 60 in the Centerville Lady Elk Invitational as a senior – a round that included her first hole-in-one. High school sports reporter Dave Purpura can be reached at dpurpura@ and at @dp_dispatch on X. This article originally appeared on The Columbus Dispatch: Ohio State's Kary Hollenbaugh makes cut at Augusta National Amateur
USA Today
02-04-2025
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- USA Today
Meet the rising Ohio State star, who is named after Karrie Webb, making her Augusta debut
AI-assisted summary Kary Hollenbaugh, ranked 22nd in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, is competing in her first Augusta National Women's Amateur. She first attended the ANWA as a spectator in 2019 when Jennifer Kupcho won. EVANS, Ga. — About 10 days before the start of the Augusta National Women's Amateur, LPGA and World Golf Hall of Fame member Karrie Webb sent Kary Hollenbaugh a video message. Before offering her best wishes for the week, Webb dryly apologized for being the inspiration of a name that will be mispronounced for the rest of her life. Every word of the video was a thrill, of course, for the petite Hollenbaugh, who has been on a tear recently in college golf and risen to No. 22 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. 'I've never been to an LPGA event actually,' said Hollenbaugh, 'but I've watched it on TV, reruns of old major championships.' The spelling of Kary's name comes from the combination of her great grandpa Karl and her grandpa Gary. Kary's father, Paul, played college golf at Eastern Michigan and is director of golf at New Albany Country Club in Ohio. He's also obviously a big Karrie Webb fan. Kary Hollenbaugh opened with a tidy 2-under 70 on Wednesday in her ANWA debut to trail leader Megha Ganne by seven strokes. While it's her first time competing, Hollenbaugh originally came to the event as a 14-year-old in 2019, when she watched Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi duel down the stretch at Augusta National. 'One of our really good friends, he lives in Augusta, so he hooked us up with the tickets,' said Kary. 'Then we actually scalped a ticket on the street because my dad thought that he had one, but he didn't.' Kary comes into this week straight off a victory over the weekend at the Clemson Invitational. In February, she won the Therese Hession Regional Challenge and Spartan Sun Coast Invitational. 'I've always wanted to be a Buckeye,' said Kary, who chose Ohio State over Michigan even without the promise of a full scholarship her first year. The 20-year-old called it the best decision of her life. OSU head coach Lisa Strom said pound-for-pound, Kary is one of the longest hitters in the game, carrying it around 235 yards. Strom puts her star player at around 5-foot-2 in stature. 'She's always been underestimated,' said Strom, 'but I think she kind of carries that as a chip on her shoulder, 'Hey, watch this.' ' Therese Hession led the Buckeye program for nearly three decades, and Kary was her final recruit. The legendary coach gets emotional talking about Kary's growth. 'She's this little dynamo,' said Hession of what she saw in Kary as a teen. 'She loves to win, and she hates to lose.' In college, Kary has become more disciplined in her course management and more even-keel with her emotions. Hession said she came to the program with strong fundamentals thanks to the tutelage of her father. After Hession retired in 2022, she caddied for Kary at several events over the summer and noted that her speed control on the greens gave her gray hair. After the putting improved, Hession told her last year that if she worked on her chipping, she'd be a first-team All-American in 2025. On the eve of the ANWA, Hession noted that Kary had to walk off the course after the eighth hole of her practice round with a stiff neck. Her father called Hession before she got on her flight and gave it a 20 percent chance that his daughter would play. 'I said, she's so tough, I'm coming anyway,' said Hession. 'Over her dead body would she not play.'
USA Today
02-04-2025
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- USA Today
This college player recorded her second ace in the span of five days at ANWA
This college player recorded her second ace in the span of five days at ANWA EVANS, Ga. — Mackenzie Lee told her caddie on the fifth hole after a birdie at the Augusta National Women's Amateur that her only goal for the day was to finish under par. She then stepped up to the next tee and promptly recorded an ace, though she didn't actually see it. "One of the caddies was like, I think that's in, "said SMU's Lee. "I'm like no. I'm like no way. I literally just had one last week, like you're lying to me." Lee, 21, actually aced her first hole of the day in Round 2 of the Clemson Invitational on March 29. She started out the round on the seventh hole in the shotgun start and, after a 20-minute ride, knocked it in from 160 yards. Wednesday's ace in the opening round of the ANWA was her second in the span of five days, her fourth in competition and seventh overall. Lee shot 4-under 68 to kick off her first ANWA and trails Stanford's Megha Ganne by five shots. The Little Rock, Arkansas, product has five top-six finishes this season at SMU, including a trio of third-place finishes at the Chevron Collegiate, Briars Creek Invitational and Charles Schwab Women's Spring Invitational in 2025. She's been trying to get into this field since she watched Jennifer Kupcho and Maria Fassi duel at the inaugural event in 2019, calling it iconic. The outgoing Lee said she's feeding off the elevated atmosphere this week. "The crowds, the cameras, like for me, it's very exciting," said Lee, beaming. "I was thriving in it. I'm like, yes, cameras!"
NBC Sports
02-04-2025
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- NBC Sports
Mackenzie Lee's ace at Champions Retreat her second in five days
EVANS, Ga. – Mackenzie Lee did what she always does when she hits a good shot. 'Automatic tee pickup,' said the SMU junior, who then watched as her tee ball on Champions Retreat's sixth hole landed on the green and disappeared into the hole, about 135 yards away. Originally, she thought it had rolled down a slope or something, but another caddie quickly broke the exciting news. 'I'm like, no way,' said Lee, who opened the Augusta National Women's Amateur in 4-under 68 on Wednesday. 'I literally just had one last week, like you're lying to me.' Lee now has seven career holes-in-one, four of those coming in tournaments, including last week's Clemson Invitational. Lee started her second round last Saturday on the 160-yard, par-3 seventh hole at Lake Keowee's Reserve Course. With her first swing of the day, Lee jarred it. 'I was telling myself I need another warm-up because it was shotgun and we were on No. 7, like all the way out there, like a 20-minute drive in the golf carts,' Lee said. 'I was like, OK, let's just try to get this on the green because [the pin is] in the front and there's water in front of that. Yeah, it went in, and I was like, that was insane. 'But this one, you can't really see the hole, and I was like I don't know if it's in, we shall see. Like no one saw it, but yeah, it was in.' Lee's ace, the second in tournament history (Bohyun Park, 2023, Champions Retreat's eighth hole), was part of a strong close for the ANWA first-timer. After playing her first 10 holes in 2 over, Lee birdied Nos. 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 as part of her second-nine, 5-under 31.
USA Today
30-03-2025
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- USA Today
Arkansas' Kendall Todd ties women's NCAA record for lowest score in relation to par with 61
Arkansas' Kendall Todd ties women's NCAA record for lowest score in relation to par with 61 Un. REAL. 🤯 • Lowest 18-hole score in program history • Lowest score to par in program history — Razorback Women's Golf (@RazorbackWGolf) March 30, 2025 So many of the world's best female amateurs are playing well heading into the Augusta National Women's Amateur, but no one had a better final performance leading into the event than Kendall Todd. The senior at Arkansas shot 11-under 61 on Sunday in the final round of the Clemson Invitational at The Reserve At Lake Keowee in Sunset, South Carolina. Todd had 11 birdies in the final round, which started Saturday and finished Sunday, and moved 11 spots up the leaderboard for a solo second finish, one shot behind Ohio State's Kary Hollenbaugh. The 61 is the lowest 18-hole score in program history and lowest score to par in program history. In addition, she tied the NCAA record for lowest score in relation to par, set in September of 2023 by N.C. State's Lauren Olivares Leon, when she became the first woman to shoot 60 in college golf history. Todd, ranked 12th in the NCAA golf rankings and 32nd in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, becomes the sixth player to shoot 61 in the history of women's college golf. The others: 61 – Anna Zanusso, Denver University: Second round of the Westbrook Invitational in Peoria, Arizona, on Feb. 23, 2020 61 – Julia Johnson, University of Mississippi: Third round of the Battle at the Beach in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico, on Nov. 3, 2019 61 – Bianca Pagdanganan, Gonzaga: Second round of the Pizza Hut Thunderbird Invitational in George, Utah, on March 17, 2017 61 – Esther Lee, University of Colorado: First round of the Dick McGuire Invitational in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sept. 12, 2016 61 – Mariah Stackhouse, Stanford: Second round of the Peg Barnard Invitational in Stanford, California, on Feb. 17, 2013 Todd's finish helped Arkansas finish second, 10 shots behind Ohio State. The win for Hollenbaugh is her third this spring. She came in at 16 under for the week, finishing one stroke ahead of Todd. Last summer, Todd advanced to the semifinals of the U.S. Women's Amateur at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Now she heads to Augusta National looking to build on her record-tying performance.
