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USC defeats Clemson in match play quarterfinals of the NCAA Women’s Golf Finals

Great season for the ladies!

After a record-setting performance at regionals, Clemson women’s golf season ended yesterday, falling to USC in the match play quarterfinals.

Stroke play for the NCAA Women’s Golf Finals wrapped up on Monday, and the individual national champion was crowned. The eight best teams moved on to match play to crown the team national champion. Clemson finished fifth in stroke play, shooting +18 to par.

The Tigers started stroke play hot. They finished round one in first place, going eight strokes under par, led by Isabella Rawl’s eight-birdie, -6 performance. However, the following three rounds weren’t as kind. Clemson shot five over in both rounds. In the final round that determined seeding for match play, the Tigers shot +16. Luckily, it wasn’t enough to push them out of the tournament.

Clemson paired with Southern California in match play quarterfinals. Unlike stroke play, match play focuses on the player vs. player results and winning holes rather than strokes vs. par. The Tigers lost 3-1, with the lone Clemson winner being Annabelle Pancake, with a 4&3 performance.

The championship match between Stanford and UCLA starts today at 2:15 p.m. PST.

Mississippi State’s Chiara Horder claims 120th Women’s Amateur Championship title, beating Clemson’s Annabelle Pancake

Horder earned exemptions into four majors.

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Chiara Horder watched Leonie Harm and Aline Krauter win the Women’s Amateur Championship in 2018 and 2020, and wanted to follow in the footsteps of her fellow Germans.

She did just that in dominating fashion in 2023.

Horder, 20, won the 120th Women’s Amateur Championship on Sunday at Prince’s Golf Club in Sandwich, United Kingdom, topping Annabelle Pancake 7 and 6 to claim the title. She’s the third German to hoist the trophy in six years, and it’s a signature win on her resume.

“I feel amazing. I’m so happy,” Horder, “I am so fortunate to win this big championship. I mean, it’s one of the biggest amateur championships, so I’m super, super happy, and I honestly cannot believe it right now, so yeah.”

Horder, who transferred to Mississippi State from Texas Tech this summer, will be a junior in the fall. She’s ranked 273rd in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, but her biggest victory came in the semifinals, when she knocked off No. 1 Ingrid Lindblad to advance to the finals.

2023 Women's Amateur Championship
Annabelle Pancake (left) and Chiara Horder after the final match of the 2023 Women’s Amateur Championship. (Photo: R&A)

Horder earned exemptions for the Amundi Evian Championship and AIG Women’s British Open later this summer, and next year, she’ll tee it up at the Chevron Championship and US Women’s Open. She will also have an invitation to the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

“I cannot believe that I will be teeing it up there,” Horder said “I mean, it’s definitely a dream. It’s definitely a goal just to compete in these majors.

“Competing in the AIG Women’s Open is just amazing. It’s definitely a dream.”

Leading by three at the halfway mark, Horder cruised in the afternoon session thanks to four birdies on par 3s and precision off the tee.

Pancake, 21, was bidding to be the first winner from the United States since Kelli Kuehne in 1996. The senior at Clemson was cheered on by her dad, Tony, who arrived on Father’s Day after an overnight flight from Indiana helped by funds from members at Crooked Stick Golf Club.

“Yes, it was so cool,” Pancake said. “He told me that he might be able to make it, so I wasn’t for sure, but when I saw him, it was such a special thing.”

Horder become the third player to win the Women’s Amateur at Prince’s. The course had a field of 144 players representing 36 countries, including 12 players ranked inside the top 50 on the WAGR.

Portmarnock will host the 121st Women’s Amateur Championship, June 24-29, 2024.

Clemson’s Annabelle Pancake reaches final 16 of US Amateur

Pancake advances to the final 16 of the 2022 US Amateur.

Clemson, S.C—Clemson junior Annabelle Pancake defeated Madison Hinson-Tolechard of Australia and Oklahoma State University, 4&3 on Thursday to advance to the final 16 of the United States Amateur golf tournament at Chambers Bay in University Place Washington.

Pancake will take on Catherine Rao of Camarillo, California, later on Thursday afternoon and early evening.   Rao will be a freshman on the Princeton golf team this coming fall.

Clemson rising senior Savannah Grewal lost her second round match to Mia Hammond, a high school golfer from Ohio, i-up when Hammond made a birdie on the par five 18th hole.   Grewal had overcome a 3-up lead by Hammond through 12 holes by winning holes 13, 14 and 15.   The two players tied the 16th and 17th holes before Hammond won the 18th..

Pancake and Grewal were the first two Clemson women’s golfers to win a round of match play at the US. Amateur.

Pancake is obviously the first Clemson women’s golfer to reach the final 16 of the US Amateur.  It has been quite a summer for the native of Zionsville, Indiana.  She finished second at the Texas State Open, then finished second at the Western Amateur.  She played as an amateur in an Epson Tour event in her home state last week and made the cut and finished 45th.

Pancake has now won two matches at the United States Amateur and has not trailed at any point in either match.  She defeated Abbey Daniel of Covington, Louisiana and Mississippi state in the first round, 5 & 4 when he made five birdies and no bogeys.

Thursday morning  Pancake again got off to a good start against Hinson-Tolechard by winning the first hole.  The Oklahoma State player won the second hole, but Pancake came right back and won the third hole with a birdie.   She also won the seventh and 10th holes with birdies to take a 3-up lead through 10 holes. Pancake took a 4-up lead by winning the 13th hole with a par.

Hinson-Tolechard tried to get back in the match by winning the 14th hole, but Pancake won the par three 15th hole with a par to close out the match.  

As has been the case all week, Pancake has been outstanding on the par five holes.  After scoring five-under-par on the par five holes over the two rounds of stroke play Monday and Tuesday, she has not lost any of the eight par five holes she has played in the first two matches, posting a 4-0-4 record on those holes.

Clemson Golfer Results at 2022 United States Amateur

Chambers Bay, University Place, Washington

Stroke Play, August 8-9, 2022

Annabelle Pancake 73-72 145 -1 21st

Savannah Grewal 74-75 149 +3 53rd

Match Play

Annabelle Pancake

Aug. 10, 2022 d. (41) Abbey Daniel (Mississippi State),  5&4

Aug. 11, 2022 d. (9) Madison HInson-Tolechard (Oklahoma State),  4&3

Savannah Grewal

Aug. 10, 2022 d.  (10) Casey Weidenfeld (Auburn), 2&1

Aug.  11, 2022 l.  (42)  Mia Hammond (HS, Ohio),  2&1

Via Clemson Athletic Communications

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