Incoming UDM freshman golfer Lindsey Lammers (Milan, MI/Milan) roared into the semi-finals of the Michigan Women's Amateur Championship as she won two more matches on Thursday at St. Clair River Country Club.
Seeded 18th, Lammers turned aside defending champion Britney Hamilton – a Western Michigan golfer whose sister Ashley is a former All-Horizon League Titan – by 2 and 1 in her morning round. Lammers, who captured the Michigan Junior Girls Championship earlier this summer, came back to defeat Michigan State golfer Maddi Massa in the afternoon, again by a 2 and 1 margin.
“This is only the second tournament where I've played match play but so far I'm undefeated so I guess I like it,” Lammers said afterward. “I was up and down today which is what match play is all about.”
Lammers said it was her putt on the par-5 13th hole that gave her momentum in the quarter-final match.
“I sunk a long putt which put me 3-up and, once I did that, I knew all I had to do was shoot par the rest of the way,” she noted.
Like Lammers, Titan senior Alainna Stefan (Dearborn, MI/Mercy) won her opening match on Wednesday. However, she was ousted this morning in the second round by Michigan State's Natalie Brehm, the 2009 runner-up, by 2 and 1.
Lammers will go to the tee at 8:15 on Friday morning to face Brehm with a berth in the afternoon's championship match at stake. Sisters Amy (Ohio State) and Christine Meier (Michigan State) will tangle in the other semi-final. Up-to-the minute updates will be provided by the Golf Association of Michigan.
-Detroit Titans-
