Eight golfers roll into quarterfinals despite lightning delay at Massachusetts Women's Amateur

Boston Globe

4 days ago

The 16-year-old Doe, who plays out of Needham GC and attends the Winsor School, was 4-up on Hatherly CC's Jillian Johnson after 12 holes and quickly finished off the 4-and-3 victory.
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Isabel Brozena is into the quarterfinals of the Massachusetts Women's Amateur thanks to a 3-and-1 win in the Round of 16.
David Colt
They joined six golfers who punched their tickets into the semifinals ahead of the delay: Thorny Lea's Shannon Johnson, Blue Hill's Lillian Guleserian, Pine Brook's Rebecca Skoler, Woodland's Alexis Florio, Vesper's Molly Smith, and George Wright's Phoebe Brinker.
Guleserian, a rising freshman at Penn State, and Brinker, a recent Duke graduate, both won 6-and-5 in the afternoon Round of 16, which followed a morning round that pared the field from 32.
Skoler, the 2023 champion and a Virginia graduate, won 6-and-4, while Florio, of Cranston, R.I., and Smith, the 2023 runner-up and a rising junior at Central Florida, won 5-and-4.
Johnson, the 2018 champion
Johnson, a North Easton resident, took a 2-up lead through three holes, but Richardson rallied to knot it up with wins on Nos. 6 and 7.
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It was tied through 15 when Johnson birdied the par-5 16th, then matching birdies on No. 17 and pars on No. 18 advanced Johnson with a back-nine 34.
Morgan Smith, the 2022 and 2024 champion, was eliminated in the Round of 32, falling 6-and-5 to KOHR's Kylie Eaton.
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