Thirty-six holes wasn’t enough to decide a champion in the 68th Ike MGA Stroke Play Championship as MGA eClub – New Jersey member Melan Dhaubhadel outdueled Christian Cavaliere of Hudson National in a three-hole aggregate playoff to win the title.

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Annika Sorenstam steadily pulled away from her closest pursuer, fellow Swede Liselotte Neumann, to capture the title in her U.S. Senior Women’s Open championship debut. She closed the final round with a 4-under-par 68 to complete 72 holes at 12-under 276 and post an eight-stroke victory!

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Sukjin-Lee Wuesthoff came back from a five-hole deficit to defeat defending champion In-Bee Park, 1 up, and capture the 55th U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Wuesthoff, 16, of Toms River, N.J., rallied after bogeys on three of the first four holes to post 12 consecutive pars and draw even with Park, 15, of Eustis, Fla., with two holes to play. She then took the lead for good with a decisive birdie at the 17th hole, before closing out Park with a par at 18 at the 6,303 yard, par-71 Brooklawn Country Club. Her victory ranks as the greatest comeback in the history of the championship!

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In 1987, Gary Player lowered Douglass' record by a remarkable nine strokes when he shot a 72-hole score of 270 at Brooklawn Country Club, to win!

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Jerilyn Britz crafted a final-round 69 to earn a two-stroke victory over Debbie Massey and Sandra Palmer. Her total of 284 tied the Women's Open scoring record set by Louise Suggs in 1952.

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David Nevatt defeated Mark Tinder, 4 and 3, in the finals. In this Championship, Chip Beck earned the qualifying medal with a one-under-par total of 143. On his way to the final match, Nevatt defeated Bill Loeffler of Englewood, Colorado, 2 and 1, in the semifinal round. Loeffler would go on to become the 1986 U.S. Mid-Amateur champion.

"The official opening was held in the summer of 1932, and among those who helped mark that occasion was Sarazen, who just five days earlier had captured his second U.S. Open, at Fresh Meadow Country Club on Long Island."

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