Aug 10, 2025, 09:54 PM ET<\/p>\n
BANDON, Ore. — Megha Ganne won three straight holes against mistake-prone Brooke Biermann and was never seriously threatened as she won her first USGA title Sunday with a 4-and-3 victory in the U.S. Women’s Amateur.<\/p>\n
Three times that Biermann won a hole in the afternoon, Ganne responded with a birdie to remain 4 up and make it only a matter of time before she won. Biermann twice went well over the green and conceded holes in the afternoon. She never put any pressure on Ganne.<\/p>\n
“Brooke didn’t make it easy on me. She showed so much fight,” Ganne said. “This is likely my last Women’s Amateur, and I really, really wanted to get this done.”<\/p>\n
Ganne, who starts her senior year at Stanford next month, has been chasing a USGA title for nearly a decade. She reached the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2019 at age 15, losing in 19 holes to Albane Valenzuela.<\/p>\n
She nearly didn’t get a chance at Bandon Dunes.<\/p>\n
Megha Ganne won three straight holes in Sunday’s championship match at the U.S. Women’s Amateur.\u00a0Tom Hauck\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
Ganne was 4 down with seven holes to play in the semifinals against Ella Scaysbrook when she rallied to force extra holes, winning with a birdie on the 19th hole.<\/p>\n
There wasn’t much drama in the championship match. Ganne never trailed, although each player won three holes, and the match was all square through 11 holes in the morning.<\/p>\n
Biermann lost the next three holes with bogeys and never caught up. Ganne was 3 up after 18 holes, and Biermann never got closer.<\/p>\n
“Megha is a great player,” Biermann said. “I was trying to stay in my own thoughts. Unfortunately, the putter went cold today. Overall, I felt like I gave it my all. I had a blast out here.”<\/p>\n
Biermann, who just finished her college career at Michigan State, battled to at least stay in the game. On the 14th hole, she had a 20-foot putt from the collar of the green. She had to make that to cut the deficit to 2 down with four holes to play.<\/p>\n
But Biermann left it short, missed the next putt and suddenly was 4 down with four to play. Ganne two-putted from 15 feet for par on the next hole to close out the match.<\/p>\n
“I can’t believe I’m standing here right now,” Ganne said as she held the trophy. “I’m not going to lie, I was thinking about this trophy the entire day.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug 10, 2025, 09:54 PM ET BANDON, Ore. — Megha Ganne won three straight holes against mistake-prone Brooke…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60639,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-60638","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60638","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=60638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60638\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}