16th Connecticut Women’s Open Championship
May 27th - 28th - Wampanoag Country Club
Par 72 (36-36) - 5,804 yards
1) Carmen Bandea (Johns Creek, Georgia) - 69-73--142
2) Elizabeth Caron (Greenwich, Conn.) - 68-74--142
3) Seul-Ki Park (Northbrook, Illinois) - 73-74--147
4) Lynn Valentine (East Lyme, Conn.) - 74-75--149
Left: Carman Bandea - Day 1, temperature 85 degrees; Middle: Carman Bandea - Day 2, windchill
temperature in the low 40s; Right: Liz Caron makes five footer at the 36th hole to earn spot in playoff
After solid pars on the 13th, Bandea and Caron
each executed exceptional wedges to the par-4 14th.
With the hole at the front of the severely sloped green,
both faced downhill sliders about five feet in length.
First Bandea, then Caron from a slightly different angle
gently touched their putters to their golf balls to start the
agonizing trickle toward the hole. Both found the center
and continued to share a lead they had now stretched to
minus-three and well clear of the rest of the field. Bandea
continued her remarkable stretch with a made ten-footer
for her fourth birdie over the first six holes of the back
nine. But just as quickly, she bogeyed 16 and 17, and
when Caron bogey