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The Powder Horn
Sheridan, Wyoming
July 26 - 31, 2011
2011 TRANS
AMATEUR
CHAMPION
Julie Yang - Check out these stats
Julie Yang took up the game of golf when she was just 6 years old. She lived for a time in Thailand, and speaks fluent Thai. At age 9, she moved to Arizona. She won her first international age group event, the UBC Junior World Golf Tour, in December of 2002 at age 7. Before she turned nine, she would accumulate over 20 such titles.
Yang had the talent to compete and even win AJGA events, but was not allowed to play due to her youth: the AJGA has a minimum age limit of 12 years. Shortly after her 12th birthday in 2007, she played her first AJGA event and finished third. At her second event a few weeks later, she did even better, finishing second. She captured the title at her third event, the Randy Smith Classic in Lubbock, TX, beating two significantly older players in a playoff. In so doing, she became the second youngest girl to ever win an AJGA event, (the youngest girl to ever win one had won before the 12 year age limit had been instituted). Yang was 12 years, 1 month and 8 days old when she won the Smith title. Later in 2007, she won the US Kids World Championship. She was named to the Rolex Junior All American teams in 2007 and 2008; she was the youngest Rolex All American in history.
At age 14, Julie relocated to Europe, where she attended school in Scotland. She continued her winning ways there. Among her triumphs were wins at the Welsh Ladies Open Stroke Play Championship, the Danish International Ladies Amateur Championship, and the English Women's Open Stroke Play Championship. She was the youngest winner in history in all of those events.
Julie moved back to the States in 2011, and looks primed to continue her rise to prominence over here. Although she did not do well at the US Women's Amateur, losing in the second round, she did win the 2011 Women's Trans National Amateur Championship, where once again she was the youngest champion in history.
(From Seoul Sisters.com)
2011 Champion Runner Up
Alex Stewart
Alex accepts the inaugural Trans trophy from Trans Amateur Championship Director Sue May. This trophy has been donated by the McDonald family to be named the IVA MAY PILCHER McDONALD Champion Runner Up Trophy in honor of our past board member. The trophy will be designed and completed for presentation to the 2012 Champion Runner Up. The Trans thanks the McDonald family for its generosity. See Press Releases for more about Iva May PIlcher McDonald and her importance to not only the Trans but women's golf in general. The name of Alex Stewart will be the first name engraved upon this new trophy.
2012 TRANS Amateur Championship
The Members Club at
Woodcreek and WildeWood
Elgin, South Carolina
July 23 - July 28, 2012
Practice Round: July 22
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