Kaitlyn Schroeder and Bailey Shoemaker carried their quest for a U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball to the final hole on Sunday at the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico, but came up just short.
Thienna Huynh and Sara Im defeated Schroeder and Shoemaker 1-up in the championship match despite a pair of late rallies. Schroeder, who will enroll at Alabama next year and Shoemaker, who has committed to USC, won the 16th hole when Shoemaker nearly aced it. But Huynh and Im halved the next two holes for the title.
“It obviously means a lot,” said Huynh. “It’s so surreal. (My mom) said on 18 green, ‘Can you believe that we’re USGA champions?’”
