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17-year-old amateur misses chance to win US Women’s Open

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BEDMINSTER, N.J. (AP) With three holes left in the U.S. Women’s Open, Hye-Jin Choi was all set to re-write the record books.

The 17-year-old South Korean was poised to become the second amateur to win the biggest title in women’s golf, joining 1967 champion Catherine Lacoste of France.

Quote sheets were handed out featuring the congratulatory words of Lacoste, who is now 72 years old and lives in Spain. Lacoste’s father was famed tennis player and sporting goods clothier Rene Lacoste.

Choi was tied with eventual winner Sung Hyun Park, also of South Korea, heading to the par-3 16th, one of the holes that President Donald Trump watched from his personal viewing box.