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| Monday, 11 October 2004 |
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Thuhashini's impressive display at US Amateur C'ship by Richard Dwight Thuhashini Selvaratnam, who has made quite a name for herself in the golfing circles of Sri Lanka by her extraordinary prowess to successfully hold her own as champion golfer here, is continuing in the same vein abroad, doing extremely well in golf competions, particularly in the States where she resides. News reaches us that Thuhashini acquitted herself creditably in the preliminaries of the recently held, 18th US Mid Amateur Championship, played at the tough expansive Donald Ross layout of Holston Hills Golf Club in Tennesse. Thuhashini was at her best, when in a sectional qualifying round played in Arizona she qualified to play in the US Mid Amateur with an impressive gross 71-2 under par to record the best score to be the medallist winner. In the championship format of two medal rounds, there were 144 participants and, after 2 rounds Thuhashini coming 8th was among the best 64 golfers to move to the final stages of 5 rounds Match play. In the first two rounds of the match play Thuhashini beat her opponents quite easily 8/7 and 9/8 tying a 2001 record for the largest margin of victory in the championship. In the third round she met Carol Semple Thompson - a seven time USGA champion and a member of the Curtis Cup who was a favourite to win the tournament. Thuhashini playing steady golf, holing out from a bunker on a crucial hole beat her 4/2. In the 4th round which was played in the afternoon she was 2 up on the 12th hole but she lost two holes in succession and was all square coming to the 18th - at this point she was unlucky to go into the greenside bunker on the 18th and her opponent the eventual winner of the Mid Amateur Championship - Werovaski won 1 up. |
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