CARROLLTON, Texas — Savannah Barker and Alexa Saldana received the U.S. Girls’s Newbie 4-ball Championship on Wednesday, surviving a 20-hole match within the semifinals after which pulling away late within the last at Maridoe Golf Membership.
Barker and Saldana received six of the final eight holes, ending with a birdie on the par-Three 14th gap for a 5-and-Four victory over Jillian Bourdage and Casey Weidenfeld.
Bourdage and Weidenfeld additionally misplaced within the championship match two years in the past.
Barker and Savannah, the 26th seed out of 32 groups that made it by means of medal qualifying, by no means needed to go greater than 15 holes of their first three matches.
However within the semifinals Wednesday morning, they misplaced a Three-up lead by means of 10 holes and needed to go additional time in opposition to Gianna Clemente and Avery Zweig, profitable with a birdie on the second additional gap.
Bourdage and Weidenfeld misplaced a Four-up lead after 11 holes of their semifinal match in opposition to Paris Hilinski and Alexa Pano, prevailing on the 20th gap with a birdie.
Within the championship match, Bourdage and Weidenfeld birdied the opening gap and nonetheless have been 1 up by means of six holes when all of it fell aside.
Barker and Saldana received the subsequent two holes with pars to take the lead. They received the ultimate three holes of the match with two pars and a birdie on the 14th.
It was the shortest championship match because the U.S. Girls’s Newbie 4-ball started in 2015. The USGA occasion was canceled final 12 months due to the COVID-19 pandemic.