‘Hoos News: Redding Receives Invitation to Inaugural Augusta National Event
Posted on Monday, Jan. 14, 2019, 10:51 pm
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Anna Redding poses with her official invitation to the August National Women’s Amateur. (Photo by Jim Daves/UVA Media Relations)
Courtesy UVA Sports Media Relations
Virginia senior women’s golfer Anna Redding has received an invitation to the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur tournament. Announced last spring, the event will take place April 3-6 with the final round concluding the Saturday before the week of the Masters at Augusta National Golf Club.
The Augusta National Women’s Amateur is the first women’s event hosted at Augusta National Golf Club.
Aside from the location(s), the structure of the 54-hole tournament makes it unique as well. All 72 competitors will play their first 36 holes on Wednesday and Thursday (April 3-4) at Champions Retreat Golf Club in Evans, Ga., before playing a practice round at Augusta National on Friday. Then on Saturday, the top 30 and ties from the first two rounds will play the final round at Augusta National.
Final-round coverage will air on NBC from noon to 3 p.m. ET.
The tournament winner will receive an invitation to the next five Augusta National Women’s Amateurs, the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open, the 2019 Women’s British Open, and any USGA, R&A and PGA of America amateur championships.
Qualifications for the Augusta National Women’s Amateur include automatic invitations to the winners of the 2018 U.S. Women’s Amateur (Kristen Gillman), the Ladies’ British Open Amateur (Leonie Harm), Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific (Atthaya Thitikul), U.S. Girls’ Junior and Girls Junior PGA (Yealimi Noh) and the Girls’ British Open Amateur (Emma Spitz).
The World Amateur Golf Ranking was used to fill the next 60 spots, with the 30 top players from the U.S. not otherwise qualified taken and then the next 30 highest ranked players chosen based off the final list for 2018. The ANWA Championship Committee will fill the remaining spots via special invitations.
Redding (Concord, N.C.) is currently ranked No. 38 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, which is 15th among U.S. players. She currently leads the UVA team with a 72.17 stroke average for four fall tournaments. She tied for first at UVA’s season-opener, the Mary Fossum Invitational at Michigan State, and was fourth at the Tar Heel Invitational.
Last week, Redding tied for third at the Harder Hall Women’s Invitational in Florida, one of the nation’s top women’s amateur tournaments. Last summer, she reached the quarterfinals of the 2018 North & South Women’s Amateur Championship in Pinehurst.
Beyond broadcasting the final round, NBC Sports will provide pre-event promotion across NBCUniversal’s various platforms. Golf Channel, which broadcasts the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals held at Augusta National the Sunday prior to Masters week, will show highlights and live reports during the first two rounds. Golf Channel’s “Live From The Masters” programs also will begin airing on April 5 from the course and continue through the final round of the ANWA and the DCP.
For more information on the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur, visit its website at https://www.anwagolf.com.
UVA Swimming & Diving Captures Three ACC Performer of the Week Honors
Sydney Dusel, Zach Fong and Morgan Hill were each named ACC Swimming & Diving Performers of the Week on Monday. (Courtesy UVA Media Relations)
Senior Zach Fong, junior Morgan Hill and junior Sydney Dusel were named ACC Performers of the Week, as announced by the conference office on Monday. The Cavalier athletes led the No. 16 Virginia men’s swimming and diving team and No. 11 women’s swimming and diving team to victory over the weekend as both programs swept Tennessee (Friday) and Virginia Tech (Saturday) in dual meets.
Fong (Moorestown, N.J.) set a school and Aquatic and Fitness Center record in Saturday’s meet against Virginia Tech, swimming a time of 45.53 in the 100-yard butterfly. His time in the event ranks fourth nationally and second among ACC swimmers. Over the course of the weekend, he captured four individual first-place finishes, including his win in the 100-yard butterfly against Virginia Tech.
Fong placed first in the 200-yard butterfly (1:46.47) and 100-yard butterfly (47.59) against No. 11 Tennessee before pacing the 200-yard butterfly (1:45.55) against the Hokies. Fong also aided the men’s 200-yard medley relay to a victory against both the Volunteers (1:27.76) and Hokies (1:27.43).
Hill (Olney, Md.) was a member of two Aquatic and Fitness Center record setting relay teams, helping the 200-yard medley relay (1:38.22) and the 200-yard freestyle relay (1:30.13) to a first-place finish against No. 5 Tennessee while setting the pool standard.
Individually, Hill recorded four first-place finishes, pacing the 50-yard freestyle (22.47) and 100-yard freestyle (48.55) against the Volunteers, while winning the 200-yard freestyle (1:46.98) and 100-yard butterfly (53.18) against the Hokies. Hill concluded her weekend with a win in both the 200-yard medley relay (1:38.83) and the 400-yard freestyle relay (3:21.38) against Virginia Tech.
Dusel (Naperville, Ill.) went undefeated on the boards over the weekend. She set a pool record on Friday with a score of 357.15 on the 3m board, before topping the record on Saturday, tying teammate Kylie Towbin (New Canaan, Conn.) with a score of 367.50.
On the 1m board, Dusel recorded a score of 319.73 and 315.45 against Tennessee and Virginia Tech, respectively, pacing both events.
