Most of the big names have bowed out of this U.S. Women’s Amateur, but one that remains is the world’s second-ranked amateur.
Rachel Heck, the Annika Award-winning Stanford sophomore who won the NCAA individual title and four other times as a freshman, took three straight holes to close out Arkansas senior Brooke Matthews in 19 holes in their Round of 16 match Thursday at Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York.
Heck, from Memphis, Tennessee, was coming off of an easy 7-and-6 victory of Australia’s Grace Kim in the previous round before going back and forth with Matthews, her fellow Curtis Cup practice invitee, for much of the match.