Hannah O'Sullian
(Golfweek Photo)
RANCHO MIRAGE, CA (March 29, 2017) --
Professional major championship golf gets
underway
on Thursday with the playing of the ANA
Inspiration
at Mission Hills Country Club and there will be
six
amateurs in the field.
Originally there were scheduled to be seven
amateurs in the field but Stanford freshman
Albane Valenzuela was forced to withdraw after
an on campus bike accident on March 23rd.
The field of amateurs is once again
headlined by
World Amateur Golf Rankings No. 2 Hannah O'Sullivan.
Headed to Duke for the fall of 2017, O'Sullivan
will
be making her second consecutive appearance in
the
ANA Inspiration after tying for 65th a year ago
and sharing low amateur honors with Valenzuela.
O'Sullivan, the 2015 U.S. Women's Amateur
winner, has also played in the U.S. Women's
Open
(2015; T53), Evian Championship (2015; T50)
and
Women's British Open (2016; MC).
The final amateur spot in the field this week
went to Lucy Li who qualified over the
weekend in the
ANA Junior Inspiration. Li
beat out 39 other junior
golfers to earn her spot in the field at Mission
Hills
Country Club.
For Li, who played in the 2014 U.S.
Women's
Open at Pinehurst No. 2, this will be her second
career start in a major tournament.
_______________________________________
__
The Rest of the Amateurs in the Field:
Katelyn Dambaugh
(South Carolina, Sr.)- Set to make her LPGA
Tour
debut, Dambaugh was the ANNIKA Award
runner-up
last year and also an All-SEC first teamer. In
2015
she won the Women's North & South Amateur
and last year she claimed the NCAA Women's
East
Regional medalist title.
Andrea Lee (Stanford, Fr.)- A
member of the 2016 USA Curtis Cup team, Lee
reached the quarterfinals of last years U.S.
Women's Amateur. During her freshman year
with
Stanford she has won the Windy City Collegiate
Classic and finished runner-up at the Allstate
Sugar
Bowl Intercollegiate.
Eun Jeong Seong
(South
Korea)- Seong made USGA history last year by
winning the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S.
Girls’
Junior Championship in the same calendar year.
So
far in 2017 she has a quarterfinal run to the
Australian Women's Amateur quarterfinals to her
name.
Paphangkorn
Tavatanakit (Thailand)- The 2016 Rolex
Junior
Player of the Year, is committed to UCLA for the
fall
of 2017. She picked up a big win at last seasons
Rolex Tournament of Champions.
Results:
Chevron Championship (ANA Inspiration)
| T70 | | |  | Lucy Li | | | | | | | | Redwood City, CA | | | | | | | | | 600 | | | 71-74-78-72=295 | | | | | | |
View full results for Chevron Championship (ANA Inspiration)
ABOUT THE
Chevron Championship (ANA Inspiration)
First women's professional major of the year,
the Chevron (formerly the ANA Inspiration, and before
that the Kraft Nabisco)
Championship draws more than
100 of the best women professional golfers in the
world, as well as the top-ranked amateurs in the
country.
View Complete Tournament Information