Nadene Gole and Sue Wooster reach quarters at US Senior Women’s Am
Nadene Gole in action this week – image courtesy of USGA
56-year-old Victorian golfer Nadene Gole has reached the US Women’s Senior Amateur Championship at the Omni Homestead Resort in Virginia as she continues her great run in senior women’s amateur events internationally.
Gole, the highest-ranked senior women’s amateur in the world, shared 4th place in the 36-hole qualifying earlier in the week and today defeated former champion Ellen Port of Missouri in the Round of 16 as she looks to defend the title she won in Seattle last year.
Gole was 2 down to Port earlier in the match but won three of four holes early in her homeward nine to win 2 up.
Gole not only won this event twelve months ago, she also won the 2024 R&A Senior Women’s Amateur Championship and the 2025 English and Scottish Senior Women’s Amateur Championships.
“Today’s been a game of patience. It’s hard to explain, but you know, it’s a long day,” said Gole, who also defeated Port in a Round-of-32 match in 2023. “Ellen’s always going to be a tough match; she’s a great competitor. We started off a bit scrappy. She flew some good putts in there in the end, and I got some good ones, so I just got her there on the last hole.”
Gole is joined in the quarter finals by her fellow Victorian Sue Wooster (63), a three-time runner-up in the event, after the remarkable and prolific title winner, Wooster, narrowly defeated another Australian, Gemma Dooley, 1 up in her round of 16 match today.
If both players win their respective quarter-final and semi-final matches, they will meet each other in the final.
