{"id":58002,"date":"2025-08-10T00:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58002\/"},"modified":"2025-08-10T00:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T00:06:09","slug":"the-emotional-reason-this-u-s-womens-amateur-finalist-plays-a-yellow-golf-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/58002\/","title":{"rendered":"The emotional reason this U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur finalist plays a yellow golf ball"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Editor’s note:\u00a0Golfweek’s Cameron Jourdan<\/a>\u00a0is following all the action from Bandon Dunes.\u00a0Check out his updates from the semifinals here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

BANDON, Ore. \u2014 When Brooke Biermann blasts her tee shot down the first fairway at Bandon Dunes on Sunday, she’ll do so with a yellow golf ball. And to her, it’s a lot more than just a color.<\/p>\n

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Biermann is one of the finalists at the 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur<\/a> and will face world No. 11 Megha Ganne in the 36-hole championship match Sunday on Oregon’s Pacific Coast. The 22-year-old, who recently graduated from Michigan State, took down rising Kansas junior Lyla Louderbaugh<\/a> in the semifinals on Saturday to punch her ticket to the championship match.<\/p>\n

And she’ll use a yellow golf ball when she plays, just like she has since her first tournament.<\/p>\n

The reason? Her grandfather, Bill, gifted her a dozen Callaway Chrome Soft yellow golf balls when she first started playing tournament golf. A couple weeks later, Bill died.<\/p>\n

Playing in her third tournament after his passing at Yorktown Golf Course, a par-3 layout in Illinois, Biermann made a hole-in-one using a 7-iron from 100 yards away. It was with one of those yellow balls, which she called “goldies.”<\/p>\n

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“That is a sign that I’m going to play with a yellow ball and he’s gonna be by my side every single round,” Biermann said. “I know it’s a little different and unique, but I’ve actually grown to like it a lot because you can always tell whose ball is whose.”<\/p>\n

Biermann still has that hole-in-one golf ball. Although she won’t use it Sunday, it’ll be a yellow ball as a sentimental reminder throughout her round of one of the reasons she’s in this position at Bandon Dunes.<\/p>\n

And Bill will have a front-row seat to watch his granddaughter chase history.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: U.S. Women’s Amateur 2025: Why Brooke Biermann uses yellow golf ball<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Editor’s note:\u00a0Golfweek’s Cameron Jourdan\u00a0is following all the action from Bandon Dunes.\u00a0Check out his updates from the semifinals here.)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58003,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[37041,32395,38318,38316,49,48,622,10478,82,38317,38315],"class_list":["post-58002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ball","tag-bandon-dunes","tag-biermann","tag-brooke-biermann","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-golf-ball","tag-sports","tag-tournament-golf","tag-yellow-ball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58002\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}