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Senior Women's Amateur Championship

MARY BUDKE COMES FROM BEHIND AT SOULE PARK

August 24, 2023

Results

Finding herself in the mix after one round of the Senior Women’s Amateur Championship, Mary Budke stared down a three-stroke deficit as she teed off for her final round of Thursday. Chasing clubhouse leader Akemi Nakata Khaiat, who shot one-over 73 in the first round, Budke flipped the script on its head with a final round three-under 69 that was more than enough to clinch her first SCGA senior amateur title at Soule Park GC.

Despite a slow start to her final round with two bogeys in the first three holes, Budke played near perfect golf the rest of the way. She immediately erased those bogeys with birdies on Nos. 4 and 5, improving her score back to four-over overall. With two bogeys from Nakata Khaiat in her first three holes, Budke found herself within striking distance of the lead.

She knocked in another birdie on No. 9 to get to three-under and share the lead with Nakata Khaiat as the group approached the back nine. The two remained deadlocked at the top of the leaderboard until the 16th hole, where Budke birdied to take the solo lead. A bogey from Nakata Khaiat on No. 17 doubled Budke’s lead. Budke slammed the door shut with a birdie on the 18th to solidify her victory in an impressive come from behind fashion.

Budke’s final round 69 stood as the only round logged under par throughout the championship, and it came at the perfect time. She finished at one-over overall, while Nakai Khaiat took home second place at four-over. Three-time Senior Women’s Am champion Kathy Kurata came in third at seven-over.

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Past Champions

Year Winner Site
2025 Shelly Haywood Temecula Creek GC
2024 Sherry Wright Las Posas CC
2023 Mary Budke Soule Park GC
2022 Sherry Wright South Hills CC
2021 Kathy Kurata Omni La Costa
2020 Kathy Kurata Victoria Club
2019 Jamie Hoffmann Ranch Course at the Alisal
2018 Kathy Kurata Glendora CC
2017 Akemi Nakata Khaiat
2016 Louella Kanew
2015 Mina Hardin
2014 Joan Higgins
2013 Joan Higgins
2012 Joan Higgins
2011 Kathy Kurata
2010 Joan Higgins
2009 Joan Higgins
2008 Joan Higgins
2007 Marsha Butler
2006 Deby Anderson
2004 Deby Anderson
2003 Marianne Towersey
2002 Marianne Towersey
2001 Candy Meyers
2000 Candy Meyers
1999 Millie Stanley
1998 Millie Stanley
1996 Sybil O'Byrne
1995 Barbara Stephan
1994 Nancy Sheals
1993 Millie Stanley
1992 Millie Stanley
1991 Millie Stanley
1990 Donna Travis
1989 Millie Stanley
1988 Millie Stanley
1987 Millie Stanley
1986 Millie Stanley
1985 Millie Stanley
1984 Millie Stanley
1983 Ruth Miller
1982 Ruth Miller
1981 Ruth Miller
1980 Ruth Miller
1979 Ruth Miller
1978 Vera Golden
1977 Helen Knight
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