Northwestern University Athletics
Burden Advances to U.S. Amateur Third Round
8/1/2001 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Aug. 1, 2001
WICHITA, Kan. - Northwestern junior Elizabeth Burden advanced to the third round of the U.S. Women's Amateur Golf Championship Wednesday at Flint Hills National Golf Club. Burden defeated Natalie Easterly, 3 and 2, in the morning's first round and then came back to defeat Christina Kim, 3 and 2, in the afternoon's second round.
Burden, who earlier this summer won the Illinois Women's State Amateur title, will now meet Korea's Joo-Mi Kim in Thursday morning's Round of 16. The winner of that match will move on to the quarterfinal round, to be played Thursday afternoon, with the semifinal matches going on Friday. The match to determine the U.S. Women's Amateur champion will be a 36-hole affair on Saturday.
Joo-Mi Kim advanced to Thursday with a 22-hole win over defending runner-up Laura Myerscough in the first round and a 3 and 1 win over Danielle Downey in the second round.
Burden's second-round match was particularly riveting, as Christina Kim entered match play having fired a 145 in the two rounds of stroke play Monday and Tuesday, bettering Burden's 149. Last weekend, Kim took medalist honors in stroke play at the U.S. Girls' Junior Championship.
That did not seem to matter, though, as Burden gained the advantage on the first hole and never looked back. Burden parred the par-5 hole, while Kim bogeyed. Burden's 1-up lead held until the fifth, when she birdied to go 2-up.
Kim won the sixth hole to cut the lead back to 1-up, and the lead fluctuated in the same manner on the eighth and ninth holes -- Burden taking the eighth with a par, and Kim striking back with a par on No. 9.
However, Burden parred No. 10 while Kim bogeyed, and then the same thing happened at Nos. 12 and 13 to give Burden a 4-up lead. She cruised to the win from there.
ESPN will be covering the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship on Thursday from 3-5 p.m., on Friday from 3:30-5:30 p.m., and Saturday from 3-5 p.m.
