7/8/25
(Walla Walla, WA) The second round of the 123rd PNGA Women’s Amateur Championship wrapped up today. The first two rounds of stroke play set the 32-player match-play field. Tomorrow, the match play portion of the championship will begin, with the Round of 32 in the morning and the Round of 16 in the afternoon. This week’s winner will get an exemption into the 125th U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Bandon, Oregon, from August 4-10.
Ava Schroeder from Twin Falls, Idaho, matched her 3-under 69 yesterday with another one today to take the top spot by three strokes. Schroeder was even on the front nine today but went 3-under for a 33 on the back nine for her second straight sub-70 round. Schroeder is a sophomore at BYU, taking the medalist honors in the stroke play portion. Schroeder will be in the first match tomorrow morning at 7:30, going up against Anna Duerr from Olympia.
Erin Lee from Canada was the only other player to shoot under par in both rounds of stroke play. Lee went 2-under today with a bogey-free 70 to finish solo second at 3-under overall. Kyra Ly from Portland, Oregon, and Reagan Southerland from Atlanta, Georgia, tied for third at 2-under. At even par was a group of Taya Battistella from Bellingham, Chelsea Truong from Canada, Gretchen Johnson from Portland, Oregon, Jazy Roberts from Australia, and Darae Chung from Eugene, Oregon, all tied for fifth. Rounding out the top ten was Kennedy Knox from Normandy Park and one of the 18-hole co-leaders, Nicole Koong from Sammamish, tied for tenth at 1-over.
The cut was at 7-over par, and it was competitive to fight for the final spots. The cut was an even 32 players with no playoff for the last spots, but there was some drama. Six players finished at 7-over for the two days, while two players finished at 8-over, with both players recording bogeys in the final four holes to go from in to out. Inez Ng from Singapore shot an 8-over 80 in the first round, but bounced back with a 2-under 70 to go from out to in.
For the second day in a row, the 5th hole was the hardest hole on the course. The 425-yard par 4 saw an average score of 4.44 and only two birdies in the second round, which were the only two birdies given up at the 5th. There were 23 bogeys or worse today at the tricky par 4. The 7th hole is a 515-yard par 5, which was the easiest hole of the second round. The hole played under par, with a scoring average of 4.82. There were 14 birdies and only five bogeys. The nines played nearly identically today, with the front nine seeing an average score of 37.48 and 37.54 on the back nine.
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