Golf World Monday - June 28, 2010

usga // u.s. women’s amateur public links championship tubert takes crown

� winner emily tubert does not start college for another few months, but she will already be a national champion when she gets to arkansas. in the final of the u.s. women’s amateur public links championship, the 18-year-old from burbank, calif., knocked off usc transfer lisa mccloskey, 3 and 2, at the warren gc at notre dame (ind.)

�young but long tubert has only played golf for five years and had never advanced to match play in a usga event. any lack of experience was offset by her 270-yard driving average. finding herself 40 yards behind tubert off the tee for much of the day, mccloskey called tubert “the longest player i’ve ever played with.”

�lucky seven mccloskey, who holds the ncaa 54-hole scoring record, had a 2-up lead after five holes before tubert took control of the match. starting with a chip in birdie on no. 6, tubert won seven straight holes (the next two with pars followed by four more birdies) to take a lead she would not relinquish.

�on the move kimberly kim, 18, said she will play in the u.s. women’s open at oakmont cc as a professional. kim’s impressive amateur career included being the youngest player to win the u.s. women’s amateur (age 14 in 2006), a two-time runner-up at the wapl and two-time member of the victorious u.s. curtis cup team.