2012 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship
Port Captures 5th USGA Championship at USGA Senior Women’s
Hershey, Pa. – Ellen Port, 50, of St. Louis, Mo., captured five consecutive holes on the inward nine to defeat Jane Fitzgerald, 50, of Kensington, Md., 4 and 3, Thursday and win the 2012 USGA Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at the par-74, 6,220-yard Hershey Country Club West Course.
Port, who trailed by one hole at the turn before seizing control, becomes the second player to have won both the USGA Senior Women’s Amateur and the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur in a career. Carol Semple Thompson was the first. Port also joins a group of 10 players who have garnered at least five USGA women’s championships.
“It’s an honor to be another USGA champion,” said Port, who claimed her fourth Women’s Mid-Amateur last September. “I have a medal and a flag in the same (calendar) year that I won the Mid-Am. I am so shocked and ecstatic.”
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