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| Maru Martinez of Venezuela is overcome with emotion
after holing a par putt at the 18th hole to defeat 13-year-old phenom
Michelle Wie, 1 up, in the first round of match play at the U.S.
Women's Amateur being held at Philadelphia Country Club. Martinez
needed to survive a five-hole playoff on Wednesday just to get into
the match-play draw. (John Mummert/USGA) |
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| Maru Martinez (right) received a congratulatory
hug from her father and caddie, Julio Martinez, after upsetting
No. 2 seed Michelle Wie, 1 up, in the first round of match play
at the U.S. Women's Amateur. (John Mummert/USGA) |
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| Michelle Wie reacts to a shot during her first-round
match against Maru Martinez. Wie, the No. 2 seed after shooting
2-under-par 138 in stroke-play qualifying, is just 13 years old.
She won the Women's Amateur Public Links Championship earlier this
summer in Florida. (John Mummert/USGA) |
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| Aree Song, 17, of Korea, had little trouble eliminating
2002 USA Curtis Cup and Women's World Amateur Team Championship
player Emily Bastel, 23, of Upper Sandusky, Ohio, 4 and 3, in the
first round of match play at the U.S. Women's Amateur. Song was
the stroke-play medalist at 4-under 138. (John Mummert/USGA) |
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| Players had to fight through some morning fog on
Thursday at the Women's Amateur being held at Philadelphia Country
Club. (John Mummert/USGA) |
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