Gold Coast’s Shyla Singh reaches US Junior Quarter Final

Singh in action today – image Darren Carroll USGA

Southport Golf Club’s, Shyla Singh, has advanced to the quarter-finals of the US Junior Girls Championship at the Atlanta Athletic Club in Georgia after easily accounting for her fellow countrywoman Rachel Lee in today’s Round of 16 match-up.

Left-hander, Singh, who was the Australian Junior Champion in 2024, and the NSW Women’s Amateur Champion a year earlier, took a 3-up lead against the current Australian Women’s and Queensland Amateur Champion, Lee, through six holes of their afternoon enounter today and closed the match out after winning both the 13^th and 14^th holes to win 5&4.

In tomorrow’s quarter-final match-up, Singh will face American Grace Carter, the leading qualifier in the 36-hole stroke-play earlier in the week.

Scoring

July 17, 2025/by Bruce Young

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