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Delta Dental State Open
of Virginia
Winner: Fielding Brewbaker (204)
Low amateur: Justin Young (205)
Quick fact: Six players shot 66 or better
in Saturday’s final round, including
Young, who set the competitive course
record with a 63.
Former Cavalier Lauren
Greenlief won the VSGA
Women's Am for the
second year in a row.
Elsewhere: Cam Young, who in May
partnered with Steve Serrao to win the
VSGA Senior Four-Ball Championship,
took home his first individual VSGA title in
August. He defeated Mark Boedicker 5 and
4 to win the VSGA Senior Amateur Cham-
pionship. ... Pete DeTemple, a member at
Old Hickory Golf Club, posted a 3-under 133
at Mount Vernon Country Club to win the
33rd VSGA Senior Stroke Play Champion-
ship in June, finishing a stroke clear of Jim
Woodson and Buck Brittain.
WOMEN’S CHAMPIONSHIPS
93rd VSGA Women’s Amateur
Championship
Charlottesville’s Birdwood Golf Course is
the home of the University of Virginia’s
golf teams, but when Lauren Greenlief
played for the Cavaliers, they’d play once a
week at nearby Farmington Country Club
as well. It wasn’t her favorite venue.
“Winning it, it’s up
there at the top of
the peak, for sure.”
—Fielding Brewbaker
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“When I played here in college, histori-
cally, I didn’t play Farmington very well,”
Greenlief said moments after taming the
course and the field to win the 93rd VSGA
Women’s Amateur Championship. “It gave
me a really tough time. My short game
wasn’t very good. I would say the front
nine at Farmington, when I was at UVa, it
was a great round if I shot 38.”
Greenlief has obviously learned some-
thing in the years since. During stroke-
play qualifying, she played Farmington’s
front nine at 7 under par. In her four
match-play wins, she played the front at
6 under, helping her set an early tone on
her way to the championship.
“It’s always special coming back here,”
she said. “It felt like a little bit of redemp-
tion. … To come back this week as a new
player, six years out of school, I feel like my
game’s a lot stronger. ”
Greenlief carried momentum from her
victory at Farmington with her to the Golf
Club of Tennessee, host of the U.S. Wom-
en’s Amateur Championship. Greenlief,
who had never qualified for match play in
five previous U.S. Women’s Am appearanc-
es, won three matches before falling 2 and
1 in the quarterfinals to South Carolina’s
Lauren Stephenson. Greenlief, 27, became
the first mid-amateur to advance to the
quarterfinals since 2006.
Final match: Lauren Greenlief defeats
Amanda Hollandsworth, 2 and 1
Medalist: Greenlief (140)
Quick fact: Greenlief became the
fourth repeat Women’s Amateur
champion this decade, joining Abby
Portyrata, Lauren Coughlin and
Amanda Steinhagen.
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For Salem native Fielding Brewbaker, the
Farmington Cup was the final puzzle piece
in a great story. With his wife Erin and
infant daughter Madison Rose watching
from just off the 18th green at Roanoke’s
Ballyhack Golf Club, Brewbaker tapped in
for bogey to clinch his first Delta Dental
State Open of Virginia championship.
Consider what the victory meant to
Brewbaker. When he started his profes-
sional career in 2009, Ballyhack and Title-
ist were Brewbaker’s first two sponsors,
helping to get his career off the ground. To
this day, Brewbaker’s bag is adorned with
a Ballyhack logo. Undoubtedly, he felt at
home all week, with friends and family
there to cheer him on.
Brewbaker won with three rounds in
the 60s, and a birdie binge in the middle
of his final-round back nine gave him the
separation he needed to hold off the field.
“Emotionally, it’s the peak,” he said. “I
mean, backyard, hometown, mom and dad,
in-laws, wife, baby, friends, other family.
… Emotionally, it’s huge, it’s No. 1. Playing
in (PGA) Tour events is really cool. I’ve
done it a few times. But I didn’t win them.
… Winning it, it’s up there at the top of the
peak, for sure.”