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85th Annual NCGA Junior Championship Spyglass Hill | July 7-8


CWAC State Amateur Championship Quail Lodge | Aug. 5-8


Carmen Gutierrez Ballon already won her national


amateur championship in Peru. Now Gutierrez Ballon has an amateur crown in


the States. In a battle of collegiate golfers from Cal-


Berkeley and the University of Southern Cali- fornia, Gutierrez Ballon triumphed with a 1-up victory in the 18-hole finals. “It feels amazing,” said Gutierrez


Ballon, an 18-year-old sophomore at Cal. “It was really tough from the beginning to the end.” The eighth-seeded Gutierrez


Justin Suh and Jessica Fore BOYS: Justin Suh’s sensational summer continued at


the NCGA Junior Championship, as he shot a 1-under 215 to beat Roseville’s Corey Eddings and Half Moon Bay’s Derek Ackerman by two. The senior at Evergreen Valley kicked off his sum- mer by winning the CIF Boys State Championship, and quickly followed that up by capturing the Santa Clara County Championship. The 17-year-old from San Jose also advanced to match play at the recent California State Amateur Championship. And now, Suh has won a tournament with previous


champions such as Johnny Miller, Bobby Clampett and Ken Venturi. “It feels great,” said Suh, who plans to play at USC


in 2015. “Having my name there with those guys is validation. They were playing great at the same point, and they obviously went on to bigger things.” Suh entered the final round trailing Ackerman by


one, and that deficit grew to three when they reached the 11th tee. A Suh eagle got him back in the chase, and he played the back nine in even par to pull away by two. In the Boys 14-15 age group, Alamo’s Ryan Grau- man shot 74 to finish at 8-over 224 and win by three over Thomas Hutchison. In the Boys 13-and-under age group, San Ramon’s


Brendan Hy shot a 71 to finish at even-par 144, three strokes better than Milpitas’ Brian Ma. GIRLS: Jessica Fore entered the final round tied with


defending champion Samantha Hutchison and Quynn Duong. And then Fore made sure no one could catch her. Fore shot a 3-under 69 to run away for a four-shot


victory over Hutchison. Concord’s Yealimi Noh finished six back, and San Jose’s Duong and Vallejo’s Maria Davis tied for fourth, 11 shots behind Fore.


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Ballon was the highest seed to sur- vive the first two rounds of match play. She closed out the 30th-seeded Morgan by sinking a 5-foot par putt


on the 18th hole at Quail Lodge. “I was really nervous over that putt on


No. 18,” Gutierrez Ballon said. “It wasn’t easy.” Gutierrez Ballon trailed for the first 15 holes, but tied the match up with a par on No. 6. She then knocked her tee shot to 6 feet on No. 17 and made the birdie putt to take her first lead of the day.


Gutierrez shot an even-par 71 to qualify as the No. 8 seed. San Francisco’s


Andrea Wong took medalist honors with a sizzling 7-under 64, four shots better than second-seed Hannah Sodersten of Fresno. But Wong, winner of the 2012 NCGA Women’s Amateur, was bounced in the first


round by Pleasanton’s Alexandra Sborov 4 and 3.


In the Helen Lengfeld Flight Champi-


Carmen Gutierrez Ballon


onship, 13-year-old Ty Akabane of Danville defeated No. 11 seed Renata Young of Walnut Creek, 4 and 3.


Trying to play her way onto the Cal-Berkeley women’s


golf team this fall, Fore made an incredibly compelling case, tallying four birdies against just one bogey. “I’m trying to get good results to show the Cal coach,”


Fore said. “This helps.” Hutchison actually bettered her score from last year by


four, but she was still no match for Fore. “I can’t complain,” said Hutchison, a senior at Pioneer. “I played better than last year. Jessica played really, really well.”


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