{"id":47396,"date":"2025-10-10T01:02:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kim-schaad-conquers-second-mid-amateur-title-in-historic-duel\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T01:02:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T05:02:50","slug":"kim-schaad-conquers-second-mid-amateur-title-in-historic-duel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/kim-schaad-conquers-second-mid-amateur-title-in-historic-duel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim-Schaad Conquers Second Mid-Amateur Title in Historic Duel"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Ina Kim-Schaad Crowned Champion After Epic Battle at the U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur<\/h2>\n\nPEBBLE BEACH, Calif. &#8211; Ina Kim-Schaad showed her mettle by overcoming Hanley Long in the longest final match in the history of the U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur, taking the victory with an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth playoff hole at the Dunes course of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.\n\nKim-Schaad, 42, from Jupiter, Florida, had already won the tournament in 2019. She is the fourth oldest player to win the event and the first two-time champion since Julia Potter-Bobb in 2016. The championship is open to players aged 25 or older with a Handicap Index not exceeding 9.4.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am honestly overwhelmed with emotion. I truly love this place, and my husband and I got married in Carmel. To achieve this in such a special place, a golf course, with my family here and my husband as my caddie, on his birthday week, and for the second time, it&#8217;s like there aren&#8217;t enough words to express all the feelings I have.<\/p><cite>Ina Kim-Schaad<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nLong, 28, from Clarksville, Tennessee, tied the match with a par on the 17th hole, par 4, after Kim-Schaad&#8217;s approach overshot the green and she had to play her third shot from a cart path. Both players bogeyed the 18th hole, par 4, which took the match to extra holes. They parred the first four playoff holes, with Long sinking an 18-foot putt on the second extra hole.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>It was an absolute battle all day. Honestly, I am so proud of my courage and determination throughout the day, keeping my head up and never giving up.<\/p><cite>Hanley Long<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nBoth finalists secured their spots in the 2026 U.S. Women&#8217;s Open at Riviera Country Club and the 2026 U.S. Women&#8217;s Amateur, while Kim-Schaad also qualified for the 2027 U.S. Women&#8217;s Amateur.\n\nThe longest previous match in the history of the tournament was 22 holes, in 1989, in Robin Weiss&#8217;s victory over Page Marsh Lea.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ina Kim-Schaad Crowned Champion After Epic Battle at the U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. &#8211; Ina Kim-Schaad showed her mettle by overcoming Hanley Long in the longest final match in the history of the U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur, taking the victory with an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth playoff hole at the Dunes course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[163,9662,3854,9663],"class_list":{"0":"post-47396","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-golf","7":"tag-golf","8":"tag-kim-schaad","9":"tag-pebble-beach","10":"tag-u-s-womens-mid-amateur"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}