Emily From First To Last

Mandi Morrow's WAPL blog #6

Recap of the match:  I started off the match pretty good coming out of the gate one up through five, however I was unable to hold that lead for the rest of the round.  I lost more holes than I wanted to mid round, and was four down after 12 holes. 

At this point I knew that I had to do something to keep myself alive.  On holes 13 and 14 I had good birdie opportunities however did not take advantage of, but Emily three-putted both of those greens, which got me to be only down two through 14.  I was thinking to myself, "Anything can happen, just keep going." 

On hole 15, she was pin high just to the left of the green for eagle, and I was sitting with about a 12 footer for birdie.  All I could think was how I needed to get a birdie, and I got too aggressive with my putt and hit it about five feet past the pin, missing the putt coming back and going three down with three to go.  I was unable to pick up any strokes on the last hole and ended up losing that hole to make my match 4 and 2. 

This summer, I had three goals: make it to the U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links tournament, then to place in the top 64, and finally to compete hard in every match I would play in and to hopefully compete in one of the final matches.  I accomplished my first two goals and can say that I competed hard in my one match I did play in.  Do not get me wrong, I am happy that I made it into the match play part of the WAPL, but I was not too happy that I lost today.  I am a very competitive person and do not like to lose.  I knew that I was going to have to bring my A+ game to beat Emily, who is the defending WAPL Champion.  Overall I played decent, but Emily played a better game.  I wish her luck the rest of the way in the tournament.

Although my time has come to an end at the 2011 U.S. Woman's Amateur Public Links championship, I must say…it has truly been a trip of a lifetime.  I got to see so many amazing places in Oregon and it will continue the next few days.  Our return flight isn't until Sunday very late in the evening so we think we are going to head down to San Francisco for a couple of days and then head back up north to Seattle to finish up this incredible trip.  We figured we have until Sunday, we might as well make the most of it.  A lot of driving is ahead of us but we are both looking forward to it!

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