Mixed fortune for Caitlin Peirce at US Am

After controlling her morning, Round of 31 match throughout before winning 3&1 on day two of match play at the US Women’s Amateur in Los Angeles, South Australian, Caitlin Peirce, staged a strong comeback in her afternoon Round of 16 match against Florida’s Megan Schofill to square the match after being 3 down at the turn.

Peirce played the closing nine in 3 under 31 to square the match with a birdie at the last but then proceeded to bogey the first hole of extra time and her impressive run at the female game’s greatest amateur event is over.

Given her comparatively low world ranking compared to many of those she was competing against this week, Peirce had done well to reach the third round and will feel aggrieved that she was unable to capitalise on what had been a spirited bounce back after a slow start to the match in which she lost three of the first four holes.

Earlier in the week, Queensland’s Justice Bosio and Victorian Sue Wooster had failed to make it into the leading 64 players to make the match-play phase.

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