Ardmore’s Katie Finley to compete in U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship

LIBERTY CORNER, N.J. (April 19, 2021) – The United States Golf Association (USGA) has announced tee times for the first two rounds of the 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship on Saturday, April 24 and Sunday, April 25 at the 6,341-yard Maridoe Golf Club in Carrollton, Texas.

Katie Finley of Ardmore, the 2017 state champion for Plainview and a member of the University of North Texas golf team, has qualified  with North Texas teammate Lauren Cox of Orange, Texas. They will face Megan Propeck of Leawood, Kan. and Amanda Sambach of Charlotte, N.C in a first-round match Saturday.

The U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball consists of 18 holes of stroke play on April 24 and 18 holes of stroke play on April 25, after which the 64 sides (128 players) will be reduced to the low 32 sides (64 players) for match play. There will be five rounds of match play, starting April 26 with the first round. The second and quarterfinal rounds are slated for April 27. The semifinals will be played the morning of April 28, with the 18-hole championship match scheduled to follow at 1 p.m. CDT.

Finley, who won the Class 4A state championship as an individual as a junior and led her team to the title as a senior, played for Texas A&M in 2018-19 and transferred to North Texas for the Covid-19 impacted 2019-20 season. A starter for the 33rd-ranked Mean Green, she will be helping her team in the Conference USA Championships in Dade City, Fla., today through Wednesday before playing in the USGA event.

All Times CDT

Saturday (April 24), Hole #1 / Sunday (April 25), Hole #1

7:30 a.m. / 10:54 a.m. – Kyle Fraser, Fort Worth, Texas & Camry Tardy, Arlington, Texas; Alexa Udom, Portland, Ore. & Momo Udom, Portland, Ore.

7:42 a.m. / 11:06 a.m. – Kaitlyn Lees, Bryn Mawr, Pa. & Samantha Yao, Berwyn, Pa.; Tiffany Cao, Midlothian, Texas & Chelsea Romas, Coppell, Texas

7:54 a.m. / 11:18 a.m. – Gabrielle Shieh, Carlisle, Mass. & Anne Walsh, Boston, Mass.; Riana Mission, Las Vegas, Nev. & Yana Wilson, Henderson, Nev.

8:06 a.m. / 11:30 a.m. – Bailey Dunstan, Little Rock, Ark. & Kelley Topiwala, Matthews, N.C.; Lauren Clark, Orlando, Fla. & Kaitlyn Schroeder, Jacksonville, Fla.

8:18 a.m. / 11:42 a.m. – Sydney Bryan, Mesa, Ariz. & Grace Summerhays, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Angel Lin, Canada & Bibilani Liu, Cupertino, Calif.

8:30 a.m. / 11:54 a.m. – Megha Ganne, Holmdel, N.J. & Katie Li, Basking Ridge, N.J.; Katherine Muzi, Newport Beach, Calif. & Crystal Wang, Diamond Bar, Calif.

8:42 a.m. / 12:06 p.m. – Paris Hilinski, Los Angeles, Calif. & Alexa Pano, Lake Worth, Fla.; Meghan Stasi, Fort Lauderdale, Fla. & Dawn Woodard, Greenville, S.C.

8:54 a.m. / 12:18 p.m. – Lauryn Nguyen, Seattle, Wash. & Suzie Tran, Poulsbo, Wash.; Oihana Etxezarreta, Spain & Anna Kittelson, Boise, Idaho

9:06 a.m. / 12:30 p.m. – Vanessa Ho, San Diego, Calif. & Karen Tsuru, Carlsbad, Calif.; Sophie Simon, Potomac, Md. & Rebecca Skoler, Needham, Mass.

9:18 a.m. / 12:42 p.m. – Amber Li, Bellevue, Wash. & Wenna Zhang, Sammamish, Wash.; Clare Sorensen, Sacramento, Calif. & Kelly Wilson, El Dorado Hills, Calif.

9:30 a.m. / 12:54 p.m. – Evelyn Arguelles, Mexico & Hanna Harrison, Dallas, Texas; Sammi Lee, Winter Park, Fla. & Mary Ellen Shuman, St. Simons Island, Ga.

9:42 a.m. / 1:06 p.m. – Ami Gianchandani, Watchung, N.J. & Kaitlyn Lee, Scarsdale, N.Y.; Taylor Ledwein, New Prague, Minn. & Megan Welch, Lakeville, Minn.

9:54 a.m. / 1:18 p.m. – Riley Lewis, Edwardsville, Ill. & Gracie Piar, East Alton, Ill.; Madelyn Gamble, Pleasant Hill, Calif. & Hannah Harrison, Granite Bay, Calif.

10:06 a.m. / 1:30 p.m. – Savannah Barber, Fort Worth, Texas & Alexa Saldana, Mexico; Anna Davis, Spring Valley, Calif. & Lucy Yuan, San Diego, Calif.

10:18 a.m. / 1:42 p.m. – Megan Propeck, Leawood, Kan. & Amanda Sambach, Charlotte, N.C.; Lauren Cox, Orange, Texas & Katie Finley, Ardmore, Okla.

10:30 a.m. / 1:54 p.m. – Carlota Palacios, Spain & Jennifer Rosenberg, Laurel Hollow, N.Y.; Brooke Biermann, Wildwood, Mo. & Julia Misemer, Overland Park, Kan.

10:54 a.m. / 7:30 a.m. – Jordan Fischer, North Ft. Myers, Fla. & Chloe Kovelesky, Boca Raton, Fla.; Maria Fernanda Martinez, Mexico & Maria Jose Martinez, Mexico

11:06 a.m. / 7:42 a.m. – Ariel Gonzalez, Mexico & Vania Simont, Mexico; Loralie Cowart, Winston, Ga. & Ava Merrill, Johns Creek, Ga.

11:18 a.m. / 7:54 a.m. – Montgomery Ferreira, Tacoma, Wash. & Lily McCauley, Olympia, Wash.; Meghan Royal, Carlsbad, Calif. & Anika Varma, India

11:30 a.m. / 8:06 a.m. – Kim Benedict, Bonita Springs, Fla. & Kelli Pry, Tampa, Fla.; Ashley Chow, Canada & Katie James, Pittsburgh, Pa.

11:42 a.m. / 8:18 a.m. – Sarah Beqaj, Canada & Britta Snyder, Ames, Iowa; Thienna Huynh, Lilburn, Ga. & Sara Im, Duluth, Ga.

11:54 a.m. / 8:30 a.m. – Sarah Kahn, Windermere, Fla. & Samantha Vodry, Little Elm, Texas; Tiffany Le, Covina, Calif. & Kate Villegas, Arcadia, Calif.

12:06 p.m. / 8:42 a.m. – Alexis Hios, Rye, N.Y. & Noelle Maertz, Clark, N.J.; Shelly Edwards, Boulder, Colo. & Erin Houtsma, Denver, Colo.

12:18 p.m. / 8:54 a.m. – Maria Fernanda Calleja Pineda, Mexico & Maria Garcia Arroyo, Mexico; Laney Frye, Nicholasville, Ky. & Maria Villanueva, Spain

12:30 p.m. / 9:06 a.m. – Kimberly Dinh, Midland, Mich. & Ashley Mantha, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Ellen Port, St. Louis, Mo. & Lara Tennant, Portland, Ore.

12:42 p.m. / 9:18 a.m. – Jillian Bourdage, Tamarac, Fla. & Casey Weidenfeld, Pembroke Pines, Fla.; Janae Leovao, Oceanside, Calif. & Jasmine Leovao, Oceanside, Calif.

12:54 p.m. / 9:30 a.m. – Emerson Blair, West Point, Miss. & Anna Heck, Memphis, Tenn.; Melena Barrientos, Plano, Texas & Rylie Heflin, Avondale, Pa.

1:06 p.m. / 9:42 a.m. – Reagan Gray, Missouri City, Texas & Jacqueline Nguyen, Houston, Texas; Samantha Brown, Westfield, Ind. & Michaela Headlee, Carmel, Ind.

1:18 p.m. / 9:54 a.m. – Angelina Kim, Tenafly, N.J. & Claire Lu, Edison, N.J.; Chloe Lauer, France & Myah McDonald, Kaneohe, Hawaii

1:30 p.m. / 10:06 a.m. – Jensen Castle, Columbia, S.C. & Marissa Wenzler, Dayton, Ohio; Gianna Clemente, Warren, Ohio & Avery Zweig, McKinney, Texas

1:42 p.m. / 10:18 a.m. – Sophie Linder, Carthage, Tenn. & Karoline Tuttle, Lake Mary, Fla.; Daniela Chipchase, Colombia & Naomi Ramirez Aizawa, Mexico

1:54 p.m. / 10:30 a.m. – Kate Strickland, Lincoln, Neb. & Kate Tilma, Wichita, Kan.; Darla May Dela Torre, Fairfield, Calif. & Varsha Ramachandran, San Jose, Calif.

Maridoe Golf Club Hole by Hole

Hole     1          2          3          4          5          6          7          8          9          Total

Par       4          5          3          4          4          4          5          3          4          36

Yards   375      529      189      345      327      296      523      110      398       3,092

Hole     10        11        12        13        14        15        16        17        18        Total

Par       4          5          4          4          3          4          5          3          4           36

Yards   388      518      417      404      164      377      478     131       372       3,249