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Floridians Get Set for U.S. Women’s Four-Ball

April 14, 2021

TAMPA, Fla. – The top women’s amateur in the country will head to Texas next week to kick off the 2021 USGA championship schedule. The U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship will begin on Saturday, April 24 at Maridoe Golf Club, with 12 players representing Florida. 

The championship will begin with 64 teams competing in two rounds of stroke play, with 32 sides advancing to match play. 

Here are some things to know about the Floridians in the field before the championship begins. 

The 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball runners-up, Jillian Bourdage and Casey Weidenfeld, will team up again at this year’s championship. Bourdage was named the 2019 FSGA Girls’ Junior Player of the Year, after capturing the Girls’ Junior title and finishing runner-up at the U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship. Weidenfeld is a Florida Junior Tour winner, who also finished runner-up at last year’s Florida Girls’ Junior Amateur. 

Kaitlyn Schroeder will be competing in her second USGA championship, while Lauren Clark will make her USGA debut, when the two pair up in Texas. Schroeder captured back-to-back Florida Girls’ Junior title in 2019 and 2020, firing a final-round 64 to take the win last year. Clark recently picked up her sixth FJT victory in April at Duran Golf Club. 

Florida Junior Tour players, Chloe Kovelesky and Jordan Fischer will team up this year, with Fischer competing in her first USGA championship. Kovelesky is a three-time FJT winner, while Fischer was named the 2020 FJT Points Champion for the 13-15 Division.

The 2020 FSGA Girls’ Junior Player of the Year, Karoline Tuttle, will tee it up again with Tennessee native, Sophie Linder. The two advanced to the Round of 16 at the 2019 championship, falling to the eventual champions, Megan Furtney and Erica Shepherd. Tuttle picked up two Florida Junior Tour wins last year, while also finishing inside the top-10 at the Florida Women’s Open. 

Alexa Pano will be competing in her third U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball, after advancing to the Semifinals in 2019. This year, Pano will be playing with California native, Paris Hilinski.

Kelli Pry and Kim Benedict will be teaming up this year, both players also qualified for the 2019 U.S Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship. 

FJT alum, Sammi Lee will be playing with former University of Georgia teammate, Mary Ellen Shuman. The two were runners-up at the 2017 championship. 

Sarah Kahn, another FJT alum, will be playing with her High Point University teammate, Samantha Vodry.

Gianna Clemente, a Florida Junior Tour winner, is teaming up with  Texas native Avery Zweig. Clemente (13) and Zweig (14) will be the youngest team in the field.