2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur winner, results: Anna Davis, 16, takes third place of the event
What did you do at the age of 16? Maybe hide your parents drinking beer or organizing your baseball card collection or roaming the neighborhood on your BMX bike? You certainly didn’t do what 16-year-old Anna Davis did Saturday at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, where she shot 3-under 69 to finish 1 under and win by one shot. against a pair of LSU Tigers at Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Rock.
Davis, currently a sophomore in high school and without his driver’s license, actually took the lead in the early event with a score of 70 in Round 1 before shooting 76 in Round 2 – both at the Champions Retreat – to fall two leads back into the final round at Augusta.
However, her round on Saturday was near-perfect. On a day when only four women shot below par, she played the first nine at 35 and the second of a 34 with no magic to enter the clubhouse at 1 under. , just ahead of the leaders. She admitted after the round that she watched the leaderboard through all nine of the second, but as she finished 3-under 69 on the last hole, she was still looking up the lead.
Stone was up two at the time after an impressive birdie on the 16th, but she doubled her 17 and created a bogey on the last to go from 3 under and a secure-looking win to even is par, a Davis return for a knockout. Stone said she then tried to bounce back from a double at 17, in which she hit the wrong club on approach but “stupid” mistakes on number 18 kept her outside of her circle. winner.
Davis was not one of the favorites of the week. How could she be? She’s barely too old to qualify for Sunday’s Drive, Chip and Putt, and her World Amateur Golf Rating is 100 even. calendar. The best finish of her career is probably the 2021 PGA Girls Junior Championships, and this year’s ANWA is supposed to be a stepping stone, not a launch pad.
However, Davis remained calm all day. The left-hander from San Diego rocked a transparent “swag” bucket hat, just doing a trick on one of the most elaborate golf courses in the world – including a crazy up and down swing as crazy as the number 17 when she has to have it – and it doesn’t seem awkward when the president of Augusta National, Fred Ridley, reminds her that she shares the same birthday as one of the sentence’s founders. club, Bobby Jones.
Terrible (at least for me), Davis said after her round and win that one of her favorite memories at Augusta is winning Tiger Woods masters in 2019, it makes sense that she’s not alive after his previous four wins there.
Now she’s part of that legend, and ANWA flexes a different muscle each year with its winner. The first was a fight between futurists Maria Fassi and Jennifer Kupcho. Last year, it had an international winner in Tsubasa Kajitani. Around this time, ANWA was crowned a high school age champion two years ago.
That’s the beauty of the sport and the appeal of this week. The golf ball doesn’t know your age (old or young), and Davis has now done what only 56 other people (and only one other teenager) can say they have done in the club’s 85-year history. this golf set.
Davis won a tournament at Augusta National, and perhaps no one has ever made it look cooler than her.
