{"id":791930,"date":"2026-07-10T18:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791930\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T18:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T18:55:10","slug":"hoops-and-tennant-claim-victories-in-the-ra-senior-amateurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/791930\/","title":{"rendered":"Hoops and Tennant claim victories in The R&#038;A Senior Amateurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennant, who won the 2019 Women\u2019s Senior Amateur at Royal St David\u2019s, was three shots adrift of Brown after nine holes of the final round. However, the three-time US Senior Women\u2019s champion played the inward nine in one-under-par 36 to Brown\u2019s 44 to get her hands on the trophy again.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI wanted to shoot two-under today and I did that,\u201d added Tennant, who won three straight US Women\u2019s Senior Amateur Championships between 2018 and 2021. \u201cI did a good job of just focussing on my own game. I knew I was behind Emma but not by how much. I just stuck to my game plan and tried to do my best on each shot.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nThe 59-year-old won thanks to the way she played the 15th and 16th holes compared to Brown. Tennant found a fairway bunker off the tee on the 15th and couldn\u2019t advance the ball to the green. However, she got up and down from 100 yards to save par. Then her approach shot to the 16th hit the flag and ended up two-and-a-half feet away.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cAfter I hit it in the bunker I said to myself \u2018I\u2019m going to make par\u2019. I had a 25-foot putt, but I saw the break, hit a good putt and luckily it went in the hole. That was definitely a turning point to keep moving forward. So was the 16th because it was a hard shot out of the rough. I knew it was going to be hard to stop the ball, so for it to hit the flag and end up close was a big break.\u201d\u00a0<br \/>\nBrown, meanwhile, dropped seven shots over the last five holes, including double bogeys at the 14th and 16th holes.\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cThere wasn\u2019t anything I did that was too drastically wrong, but little misses rack up and that\u2019s what happened,\u201d said Brown, who now has two second-place finishes to go with a pair of third-place performances. \u201cBut look, it\u2019s another silver medal and I am more than happy. Congratulations to Lara. She played great and fully deserves the trophy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tennant, who won the 2019 Women\u2019s Senior Amateur at Royal St David\u2019s, was three shots adrift of Brown&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":791931,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-791930","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791930","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791930"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791930\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791930"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}