Victorian Sue Wooster reaches 4th US Senior Women’s Amateur final
Sue Wooster in action today – image USGA
63-year-old Victorian Sue Wooster had progressed to her 4th US Senior Women’s Amateur Championship final after wins in her quarter and semi-final matches today in Hot Springs, Virginia.
Wooster has been in the final on three previous occasions but has yet to claim the title, so tomorrow she takes on South Carolina’s Dawn Woodward in the final of women’s amateur golf’s most significant title.
Fellow Victorian and defending champion Nadene Gole came from 3 down in her quarter-final morning match against Shelley Stouffer, but, despite a birdie at the last hole of her match against the Canadian, she would lose 1 down, and thus Wooster is the only remaining Australian in what has been a good week thus far for the Australian contingent.
Wooster overcame her American quarter-final opponent with some ease, but it was a different story against her semi-final opponent, Sarah Gallagher, finally winning at the first extra hole after a birdie clinched the match.
“It feels amazing,” said Wooster. “Whether I win tomorrow or I lose, just I’m 63 years old and I’ve been in three finals and lost all of them. To be honest I never thought I would make another one.
“I haven’t been playing that good this year, and something just clicked couple of weeks ago and started to get in a groove and I guess here I am. I can’t believe it.
“I mean, I’m happy I’ve come this far. Obviously, I want to win it, but I don’t want to — I think some of the other years, because I lost a few in a row, I just put too much pressure on myself. I don’t want to do that. I just want to keep doing what I’m doing and try and enjoy the day and soak up the experience and just have a good memory with it, whatever the outcome.”
Wooster’s opponent in tomorrow’s final is the 51-year-old Dawn Woodward from South Carolina who is playing in her second US Women’s Senior Amateur Championship after being beaten in the quarter- finals by Nadene Gole last year.
