Linda Fuller of Richmond, Texas, shot a net 66 to win the World Championship Playoff at the Dunes Golf & Beach Club Friday afternoon. Fuller’s victory capped the 26th annual PGA TOUR Superstore World Amateur Handicap Championship, an event that began with 3,060 people on Monday morning.
The World Championship Playoff consisted of all flight winners and ties, a total of 75 golfers. There was a three-way tie for second place. Treg Hallman, Jill Ford and Thomas Wagner all finished with a net 68. Full Leaderboard
Fuller, the third consecutive woman to win the title, played to a 13 handicap in Friday’s round. Fuller’s husband, Roger, is one of 14 players to have played in all 26 World Amateurs.
“I’m pretty flabbergasted,” an emotional Fuller said. “It’s been a lot of fun. You like to have a goal and you work towards it. It’s the fulfillment of plan when it all comes together and it works.”
Phillip Sanders and Wayne Hudson shot a net 135 but were pushed to a sudden death playoff before winning the U.S. Qualifier for International Pairs Championship, and along with it a trip to St. Andrews, Scotland to compete in the IP World Championship.
Sanders and Hudson recorded a par and bogey on the Dunes Club’s famed 13th hole, while their opponents dunked the ball in Lake Singleton.
Fuller’s victory concluded a week that featured near perfect weather over the tournament’s last four days. Temperatures along the Gran d Strand never got above the low 80s as nearly 3,100 players from 49 states and 20 foreign countries participated in the 26th annual event.
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