COVINGTON, La. – Texas A&M rising junior golfer Brooke Tyree advanced to the final of the 92nd annual Louisiana Women's Amateur with a match play upset of the tournament's top seed on Tuesday at the Tchefuncta Country Club.
A native of Sulphur, La, Tyree tallied a 1-up victory over top-seeded and 2018 Champion Abbey Daniel of Covington, La., who is a rising sophomore at Mississippi State.
"I've been playing solid all week and the plan is to keep it going," Tyree said.
Tyree will seek to capture her first Louisiana Amateur Championships when she faces Lisa (McCloskey) Bisset, originally from Montgomery, Texas, in Wednesday's final match, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Bisset is an assistant golf coach at Tulane and was a two-time All-American at USC under current Aggie head coach Andrea Gaston.
In a back-and-forth affair, Tyree and Daniel were all-square after 17 holes, and the match came down to par 5, 477-yard 18th hole. According to the Louisiana Golf Association's recap:
"Both players found the fairway with their tee shots. Tyree was away, and she put the pressure on Daniel by knocking her second shot over the greenside bunker onto the fringe, 10 yards away from the hole. Daniel also went for the green with her second shot but her ball found the water and she had to take penalty relief. Her fourth shot was long but closer to the hole than where Tyree's ball lay on the fringe. Tyree chipped her third shot to four feet. Daniel missed her par putt and conceded the hole to Tyree for the 1-up victory."
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A native of Sulphur, La, Tyree tallied a 1-up victory over top-seeded and 2018 Champion Abbey Daniel of Covington, La., who is a rising sophomore at Mississippi State.
"I've been playing solid all week and the plan is to keep it going," Tyree said.
Tyree will seek to capture her first Louisiana Amateur Championships when she faces Lisa (McCloskey) Bisset, originally from Montgomery, Texas, in Wednesday's final match, which begins at 8:30 a.m. Bisset is an assistant golf coach at Tulane and was a two-time All-American at USC under current Aggie head coach Andrea Gaston.
In a back-and-forth affair, Tyree and Daniel were all-square after 17 holes, and the match came down to par 5, 477-yard 18th hole. According to the Louisiana Golf Association's recap:
"Both players found the fairway with their tee shots. Tyree was away, and she put the pressure on Daniel by knocking her second shot over the greenside bunker onto the fringe, 10 yards away from the hole. Daniel also went for the green with her second shot but her ball found the water and she had to take penalty relief. Her fourth shot was long but closer to the hole than where Tyree's ball lay on the fringe. Tyree chipped her third shot to four feet. Daniel missed her par putt and conceded the hole to Tyree for the 1-up victory."
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About Texas A&M Athletics | Home of the 12th Man:
One of the most successful Athletics Departments in the nation, Texas A&M ranked No. 15 in the 2018-19 Learfield IMG College Directors' Cup standings and is one of eight Division I institutions nationally to finish in the top 20 of the prestigious ranking of athletics success for at least 13 consecutive years. For more information, go to www.12thMan.com.
About Texas A&M University:
Texas A&M University, the flagship university within the Texas A&M University System, is a tier-one research institution with nearly $1 billion in research grants and more than 69,000 students. The President of Texas A&M University has strategic oversight for campuses in College Station and Galveston, TX and Doha, Qatar. We include The Health Science Center with the College of Medicine, Dentistry and Pharmacy, as well as The Texas A&M School of Law and Mays Business School. For more information, go to www.tamu.edu.