Ella Scaysbrook reaches US Women’s Am quarter finals.
Ella Scaysbrook in action today during her round of 16 match – image Darren Carroll USGA
19-year-old NSW golfer, Ella Scaysbrook, has advanced to the quarter finals of the US Women’s Amateur Championship after winning both her round of 32 and round of 16 matches at Bandon Dunes Golf Club in Oregon today.
Scaysbrook, who was forced to survive a playoff for one of the final few places in the match play field on Wednesday morning, easily accounted for American Avery Weed in her morning match 4&3 and, again, in her afternoon match against American Jasmine Koo was never behind before also winning 4&3.
Scaysbrook has spent some time of late at the Florida home of Australian golfer, Sarah Jane Smith, and her husband Duane, who has also caddied for the Novacastrian this week.
Scaysbrook has won the Avondale Bowl in Sydney this year and finished well in several leading amateur events in Australia, including the Masters of the Amateurs where she was runner-up.
Scaysbrook will take on either American Rayee Feng or Canada’s Taylor Kehoe in her quarter-final match, both players with impressive records in US amateur events in recent weeks and who are locked in a lengthy round of 16 battle.
Earlier in the round of 32, Victorian Jazy Roberts was eliminated when losing to American Rayee Feng. Roberts took an early 3 up lead in the match, but Feng won four of five holes during the middle of the round to go 1 up before losing the last to Roberts who squared the match with a par.
Feng, though, would birdie the first extra hole to advance.
Gabi Ruffels is the only Australian to have won the US Women’s Amateur Championship.
