
(Photo by Steven Colquitt)
[su_spacer size=”40″] Lee opened the 72-hole event with a 2-under 68 to grab a share of the first-round lead with Hualde Zuniga. She posted successive 72s in the second and third rounds, slipping to third and then fourth in the process before rallying on Sunday.
[su_spacer size=”40″] Lee’s title is the third victory in a significant major event by Georgia women’s golfers this summer. Incoming freshman Rinko Mitsunaga won the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amatuer 4-ball Championship in May and incoming freshman Bailey Tardy captured the 113th Annual North & South Amateur earlier this month.
[su_spacer size=”40″] Tardy also won a qualifying tournament for the U.S. Women’s Am at Laurel Springs Golf Club in Suwanee, Ga., last Monday. Mitsunaga and former Bulldog All-American Emilie (Burger) Meason secured spots in the field for the Am at the same qualifier.