Auburn’s Megan Schofill wins U.S. Girls’s Beginner at Bel-Air

LOS ANGELES — Megan Schofill received the U.S. Girls’s Beginner on Sunday at Bel-Air Nation Membership, beating Latanna Stone 4 and three within the 36-hole last.

The 22-year-old Schofill, from Monticello, Florida, is a graduate pupil coming into her fifth season at Auburn College.

“It is positively a dream come true, however I would be mendacity if I would not say I am nonetheless in shock,” Schofill mentioned. “I really feel prefer it nonetheless hasn’t set in but. … I can not put into phrases the feelings I am feeling and it is simply such an honor to have the ability to say that I received this yr.”

The 21-year-old Stone, from Riverview, Florida, is also a graduate pupil coming into her fifth yr at LSU.

“It provides me a number of confidence,” Stone mentioned. “I am so excited to return and spend time with my teammates and coaches. I feel we will have an important yr this yr.”

Schofill had a 3-up lead after the primary 18 holes, profitable Nos. 15-17. She made a 55-foot birdie putt from the again of the inexperienced on 16, then hit a 9-iron inside a foot on 17.

“I felt like that was large going into the second 18,” Schofill mentioned. “I felt just like the momentum was on my aspect.”

After Stone received the par-4 twenty fourth with a birdie, Schofill took the par-4 twenty fifth and par-5 twenty sixth with birdies for a 4-up benefit.

They halved the subsequent 5 holes with pars, Stone received the par-5 thirty second and the match ended on the par-4 thirty third when Stone’s 5-foot par putt lipped out.

“Latanna performed an important match,” Stone mentioned. “It was actually enjoyable to have the ability to stroll the fairways along with her. I felt like we each performed actually stable golf.”

Stone performed by means of a proper calf harm.

“This course isn’t any joke,” Stone mentioned. “It’s totally hilly and getting a muscle pressure was not ultimate. I used to be attempting, I used to be strolling actually gradual and I misplaced some energy in my swing. Attempting to get by means of the ball actually harm.”

Schofill earned spots within the 2024 Chevron Championship, Girls’s British Open, Evian Championship and Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner. The finalists earned spots within the 2024 U.S. Girls’s Open.