Bucknell University Athletics
Amy Loughney Shoots 82-76 at U.S. Women's Amateur
8/18/2006 8:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Aug. 18, 2006
LEWISBURG, Pa. -- Amy Loughney, who will be a junior on the Bucknell women's golf team this year, performed well at the 2006 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship last week at the famed Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club in Oregon.
Loughney shot 82-76 and finished tied for 106th place out of 156 comptitors. After two rounds of stroke play, the top 60 players (plus ties) advanced to match play. Fourteen-year-old Kimberly Kim of Hilo, Hawaii went on to become the youngest U.S. Amateur champion ever.
Loughney qualified for the U.S. Amateur by placing fourth at a sectional qualifier at Butler Country Club in Pittsburgh. The winner of that sectional, Katharina Schallenberg, advanced all the way to the final match before losing to Kim 1-up.
On a par-71 course playing to 6,380 yards, Loughney struggled early and late in her opening round but was terrific in round two. She made back-to-back birdies on holes 9 and 10 and played a six-hole stretch from 7 through 12 in 2-under par. A triple-bogey 7 at No. 17 in the first round was her only score worse than bogey in the tournament.
An All-Big South performer in 2005, Loughney's career-best round in NCAA play was a 75 at the Hoya Invitational last season. Her 77-76-76 showing in a fifth-place finish at the 2005 Big South Championship is the school record for 54 holes.
Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club, the site of Tiger Woods' 1996 U.S. Amateur Championship win, became the only golf facility in the country to host six United States Golf Association Championships in the last 10 years.
The Bison women's golf team will open the 2006 fall season at the Cardinal Classic in Muncie, Ind., on Sept. 9-10.
