{"id":47663,"date":"2025-10-10T05:09:22","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/kim-schaad-conquers-his-2nd-us-mid-amateur-title-in-epic-battle\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:09:22","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T09:09:22","slug":"kim-schaad-conquers-his-2nd-us-mid-amateur-title-in-epic-battle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/golf\/kim-schaad-conquers-his-2nd-us-mid-amateur-title-in-epic-battle\/","title":{"rendered":"Kim-Schaad conquers his 2nd US Mid-Amateur title in epic battle"},"content":{"rendered":"PEBBLE BEACH, California \u2013 Ina Kim-Schaad defeated Hanley Long in the longest championship in U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur history, this Thursday. The victory came thanks to an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole at the Dunes Course of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club.\n\nKim-Schaad, 42, from Jupiter, Florida, had already won in 2019. She is the fourth oldest winner in the history of the event and the first two-time champion since Julia Potter-Bobb in 2016. The tournament is open to players aged 25 or older, with a Handicap Index not exceeding 9.4.\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>I am overwhelmed with emotion, honestly. I really love this place, and my husband and I got married in Carmel. Doing it in such a special place and golf course, with my family here and my husband caddying, 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&#8217;m feeling.<\/p><cite>Ina Kim-Schaad<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\nLong, 28 years old and from Clarksville, Tennessee, tied the match with a par on the 17th hole, par 4, when Kim-Schaad&#8217;s approach went over the green and she had to play her third shot from a cart path. Both players made bogey on the 18th hole, par 4, which took the match to extra holes.\n\nThey tied the first four playoff holes, with Long sinking an 18-foot putt on the second extra hole.\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\nBoth finalists earned spots in the 2026 U.S. Women&#8217;s Open at Riviera Country Club and the 2026 U.S. Women&#8217;s Amateur. Kim-Schaad also secured her participation in the 2027 U.S. Women&#8217;s Amateur.\n\nThe previous longest match in the tournament&#8217;s history was 22 holes, in 1989, in Robin Weiss&#8217;s victory over Page Marsh Lea.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PEBBLE BEACH, California \u2013 Ina Kim-Schaad defeated Hanley Long in the longest championship in U.S. Women&#8217;s Mid-Amateur history, this Thursday. The victory came thanks to an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole at the Dunes Course of the Monterey Peninsula Country Club. Kim-Schaad, 42, from Jupiter, Florida, had already won in 2019. She [&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":[163,9662,3854,9665],"class_list":{"0":"post-47663","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-womens-mid-amateur"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47663","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=47663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}