And making putts.
As Diaz, who shot 66 on Tuesday, began to
falter—bogeying the par-3 fourth and doubling the
par-4 seventh with a ball out of bounds—Burnham
got hot. She birdied the par-5 fifth, then three of
the next four, to shoot 34 (-2) and take the lead for
good.
SUNY Cortland’s Danielle Bambola, who
briefly led after reaching -6 with a birdie on the
5th, bogeyed the 7th, 8th, 9th, and was not a factor
again. Her 67-81-148, nevertheless, earned her low
amateur honors by a shot over Innis Arden’s own
Catherine McEvoy.
Diaz, who slipped to 77 after 66 Tuesday, finished second overall at
143 (-1). Diaz and Burnham were the only players in the field of 78 under
par. Four-time Women’s Open Champion Liz Janangelo Caron finished third
with her second 73. Bloomfield, Conn. na-
tive Nathalie Filler of the Philadelphia Cricket
Club shot 74 for the second day in a row to
finish fourth. The field’s youngest competitor,
13-year-old Alexsandra Lapple of Ridgefield,
Conn., shot a respectable 82-81-163 to finish
T43. Lapple was very consistent, shooting 40-
42-41-40 for her four nines.
Innis Arden professional Jessica Ca-
rafiello, the 2016 Women’s Open Champion,
shot 76-79-155, T25. “I wish I could have done
better for the members,” she said after. “But
some day’s it’s just not in your control. But it
was a wonderful event.”
Though McEvoy, a teammate of Burn-
ham’s at MSU, did not win low amateur hon-
ors, she had perhaps a more important role to
play in this year’s championship.
“A week and a half ago Catherine came
out to Michigan State and said I should play
in this,” said Burnham. “I called up my Dad
and I said, ‘You think I could go?’ And he said
‘Yeah,’ and I’m here.”
Her trip from the Midwest to the
Burnham’s Spartan teammate Catherine
trophy presentation on May 30 was never
McEvoy convinced her to play the Open
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