The Women's Golf World Amateur Team Championship opened in France on the 24th, and 17-year-old Saki Baba, who won the US Women's Amateur Championship for the first time in 37 years as a Japanese player, was 3 overs with a double bogey in the final stage.
The women's golf world amateur team championship, which is held once every two years, was canceled last time due to the influence of the new corona, so it opened on the 24th in Paris, France, for the first time in two tournaments.
Three representatives from each of 56 countries and regions participate for four days, and each day, the scores of the top two out of the three are added up to determine the team score, and the total of the four days is used to compete for ranking. , There will also be an individual competition that competes based on the individual's total score.
From Japan, Baba, a 17-year-old high school sophomore who won the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship held this month for the first time in 37 years as a Japanese player, Mio Ueda, who is also a sophomore in high school, and Mizuki Hashimoto, a sophomore in college is participating.
In the first half, Baba made a birdie at the 4th par 4, then she hit consecutive bogeys at the 7th and 8th, but immediately after that, she took a birdie at the 9th par 5 and returned.
However, in the second half, the 17th double bogey and the 18th bogey echoed, and Baba was 3 overs with 3 birdies, 4 bogeys, and 1 double bogey on this day.
Ueda scored even par, Hashimoto scored 1 over, and by adding the scores of the top two players, Japan started the first day with 1 over.