End of the Line

Loveland’s Katelyn Lehigh and her college teammate ousted in round of 16 at U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball; Coloradan has made match play at the event for the last 3 years

By Gary Baines 

The sweet 16 at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball turned out a little sour on Tuesday for Coloradan Katelyn Lehigh.

The two-time girls state high school individual champion from Loveland had advanced to day 4 of the national championship for the second time in three years. But she and partner Amelia Garibaldi of Stockton, Calif., a college teammate at Fresno State, couldn’t muster any magic on Tuesday in the round of 16 and lost 3 and 2 to 22nd-seeded Lucy Cook and Eliza Yelverton, two players from West Point, Miss.

That means that in the last three years in this event, Lehigh has made it to the quarterfinals (with older sister Lauren), the round of 32 (with Garibaldi) and the round of 16 (with Garibaldi again

Lehigh and Garibaldi, seeded sixth, never led in Tuesday’s match. And Cook and Yelverton pulled away in the middle of the round by winning three holes in a stretch of four, making an eagle and two birdies in the process, to go 4 up through 12. The Fresno State teammates won 13 with a par, but the teams tied the final three holes with pars.

Lehigh just wrapped up her senior season with the Bulldogs.

Here are the results for teams with players with significant Colorado ties at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball in Charleston, S.C.:

MATCH PLAY ROUND OF 16 (Tuesday)

Lucy Cook and Eliza Yelverton, West Point, Miss. def Katelyn Lehigh, Loveland/Amelia Garibaldi, Stockton, Calif., 3 and 2

MATCH PLAY ROUND OF 32 (Monday)

Katelyn Lehigh, Loveland/Amelia Garibaldi, Stockton, Calif., def. Bridget O’Keefe, Palo Alto, Calif./Julie Shin, Brambleton, Va., 1 up

Kiley Reisner, Northridge, Calif./Summer Schafer, San Diego, def. Sophia Lee, Columbine Valley/Addison Dorsey, Colo. Springs, 2 and 1

STROKE PLAY (Saturday and Sunday)

Advance to Match Play

6. Katelyn Lehigh, Loveland/Amelia Garibaldi, Stockton, Calif. 69-68—137

27. Sophia Lee, Columbine Valley/Addison Dorsey, Colo. Springs 74-67–141

Failed to Advance to Match Play

Coloradans Ashley Kozłowski/Kirsty Hodgkins-Redner 69-73–142

Kaylee Chen, Parker/Marley Moncada, Tucson 76-74–150

ALL THE RESULTS

About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com