A productive summer for Southland golfer Andrea Lee has culminated in her selection by the USGA as one of three players to represent the U.S. at this month’s Women’s Amateur Team Championship.
Lee, an incoming freshman at Stanford from Hermosa Beach, is No. 17 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. She was a runner-up in this year’s U.S. Girls’ Junior and Canadian Women’s Amateur championships and reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur. She also represented the U.S. in this year’s Curtis Cup Match, earned a silver medal for the country in the 2015 Pan American Games and made the cut in the 2014 U.S. Women’s Open.
The Southland native will join Katelyn Dambaugh and Mariel Galdiano at the Women’s Amateur Team Championship that begins Sept. 14 in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The event is conducted by the International Golf Federation, which also ran the golf competitions at August’s Olympic Games in Brazil.
“We are thrilled that Katelyn, Mariel and Andrea will represent the United States during this exciting international competition,” said USGA president Diana Murphy. “The Women’s World Amateur Team Championship carries such a rich competitive history, and these three young women will undoubtedly add to this great tradition.”
Galdiano, an incoming freshman at UCLA, is No. 6 in the WAGR. In August, she was medalist at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, setting a 36-hole stroke-play scoring record at 9-under 133. The Hawaii native also won the 2015 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship and was on the U.S. team at the 2016 Curtis Cup Match.
At this summer’s U.S. Girls’ Junior championship match, Lee led until losing to defending champion Eun Jeong Seong, who rallied for a 4 and 2 victory.
“I’m definitely proud of myself,” Lee said at the time. “This is my first time reaching the finals of a USGA championship, and I’m just really thankful for the opportunity.”
Lee and Seong previously met in the quarterfinals of the 2014 U.S. Women’s Amateur, with Lee taking a 2-and-1 victory and a place in the semifinals.
