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Carolyn Creekmore Beats Liz Haines For USGA Senior Women's Amateur Title, 1 Up
Santa Cruz, Calif. – Carolyn Creekmore, 52, of Dallas, Texas, built a 2-up lead with birdies on holes 10 and 11 and hung on to defeat Liz Haines, 56, of Gladwyne, Pa., 1 up, in the 18-hole final match at the USGA Senior Women's Amateur at Pasatiempo Golf Club. Creekmore never trailed over the tough 5,790-yard layout and seized the lead for good in this age 50-and-older championship, when she made a 12-footer that circled the hole before it fell on the 11th and then gained a concession on her six-foot birdie putt on the following hole when Haines found trouble off the tee and was out of the hole. Haines pulled to within 1 down when she chipped in from the back of the 12th green. From there, the two traded holes, with Creekmore taking the 14th with a par and Haines winning the 15th with a birdie. Haines had a chance to square the match on the par 3 last hole, but she missed her uphill six-footer for birdie, leaving Creekmore to two-putt from 20 feet for the win.
Transcript From Interview With Champion Creekmore Pasatiempo Member Sandy Woodruff Will Enjoy A Home Course Advantage
Santa Cruz, Calif. - If the winning recipe for the 2004 USGA Senior Women's Amateur includes more than a teaspoon of local knowledge, then consider Sandy Woodruff among the list of contenders at Pasatiempo Golf Club in Santa Cruz, Calif. When this championship comes to town from Oct. 9-14, Woodruff won't even have to get in her car. A long-time member, she lives on the 11th hole, some 500 yards from the first tee. More than that, however, this 55-year-old has won the women's club championship all eight times she has played in it. She also holds the women's course record with a 2-under-par 70, and is believed to have made the first-ever eagle 2 on the signature 16th hole.
Championship Fact Sheet Oct. 9-14
PAR AND YARDAGE – Pasatiempo Golf Club will be set up at 5,790 yards with a par of 36-36--72. THE COURSE – The golf course at Pasatiempo Golf Club was designed by Alister Mackenzie and opened in 1929. It was one of at least nine golf courses in California designed by the native Englishman, who earned degrees in medicine, natural science and chemistry from Cambridge University. Mackenzie lived in a house along the left side of the sixth fairway until his death in 1934. ADMISSION - The public is invited. Both admission and parking are free. DEFENDING CHAMPION – Marlene Streit of Canada became the oldest to hold a USGA title when, at age 69, she edged Nancy Fitzgerald of Carmel, Ind., in 23 holes at Barton Creek Resort and Club in Austin, Texas, to win the 2003 Championship. Streit squared the match by winning the 18th hole with a par 5 and then won it with par 5 on the fifth extra hole. It was the fourth USGA title for Streit, who also captured the 1956 U.S. Women’s Amateur and the 1985 and 1994 Senior Women’s Amateurs. "This is really something," said Streit. "If anyone had said I’d win another national championship after 2000, I wouldn’t have believed it." Carol Semple Thompson of Sewickley, Pa., had won the four previous Senior Women’s titles.
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