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all 2018 a year of re-energization for
Lauren Greenlief.
For the second straight year, Greenlief
won the VSGA Women’s Amateur Champion-
ship. That victory at Farmington Country Club
portended great things. Later in the summer,
Greenlief made another splash on the national
stage. The 2015 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur
champion made her sixth appearance in the U.S.
Women’s Amateur Championship, made match
play for the first time and didn’t stop there.
The 28-year-old Greenlief made the deepest
run of any mid-amateur in the last decade,
reaching the quarterfinals in Tennessee before
dropping a hard-fought 2-and-1 match to
Lauren Stephenson.
“I think we just want to play,” she said. “We
want to represent the mid-ams well and prove
that after college, you can still play golf. There
are a bunch of really solid mid-am players that
we see at these tournaments. It’s really awesome
to see many of them out here.”
Greenlief has bigger goals in mind for 2019.
She hopes to go even deeper in the U.S. Women’s
Amateur and U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur. If she
plays well enough, she could merit consideration
for the U.S. Curtis Cup squad in 2020, a dream
of hers for years. Everything is on the table as
Greenlief continues to play excellent golf well
beyond her college years.
VSGA WOMEN’S GOLFER OF THE YEAR
2018 HIGHLIGHTS
Lauren Greenlief » Defeated Amanda Hollandsworth to win the 93rd VSGA Women’s
Amateur Championship at Farmington Country Club.
HOME CLUB: International Country Club » Finished No. 1 in the VSGA Women’s Player Rankings.
“We want to represent the mid-ams well
and prove that after college, you can
still play golf.”
» Reached the quarterfinals at both the U.S. Women’s Amateur
and the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur championships.
» Teamed with Shabril Derco to win the VSGA Women’s Four-Ball
Championship, Greenlief’s third straight win in the event.
» Qualified for the 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball
Championship (with Katie Miller), with her side posting an
8-under 64 at the Country Club of Petersburg.
—Greenlief
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