AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Bob Shoemaker stood under a tree near the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse on Saturday shortly after his daughter, Bailey, made a clutch 5-foot par putt on the 18th hole to maintain a 1-stroke lead in the Augusta National Women's Amateur.
Shoemaker put a plastic Snoopy golf club in Bailey's hands when she was one-and-a-half years old, and now the USC freshman was on the verge of possibly winning the premier event in women's amateur golf.
After Shoemaker carded a bogey-free 6-under 66, the lowest final round in the five-year history of the ANWA, there was only one player left on the course within striking distance -- England's Lottie Woad.