It's spring again, the season of drunken beauty, and the season when golf tournaments appear.
From March 31 to April 2, the third Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament will be staged in Georgia, USA, and 72 top amateur players, including rose ZHANG, a Chinese-American player who won the "Mark McCormek Award" for two consecutive years in the world, and "magic fans" such as Zeng Liqi, a new generation of Chinese players, will gather at the Augusta National Golf Club in Golf To compete for the championship.
Rose Zhang and Zeng Liqi will wear uswing magic mirrors to compete
The world's top amateur event founded by Augusta
Although the tournament has only been held for the first time since 2019, the 2020 event was cancelled due to the impact of the new crown epidemic, but the impact is extremely large. It is not an exaggeration to describe it as "born with a golden key". The tournament was founded by augusta National Golf Club, the host of the Masters and permanent host.
As we all know, the Masters is known as "the world's most honorable sports event", this title is obtained by the support of top players around the world, but also inseparable from the ingenuity of the organizer Augusta, a legendary club, and the green jacket worn by the champion is a symbol of supreme glory.
Mickelson wearing the Uswing Magic Mirror for the 2021 Masters
On the other hand, despite the high reputation of the Masters and Augusta, Augusta adopts a "few but fine" strategy in terms of membership policy and hosting events, and is very cautious with each new initiative, and they keep the world's attention to the aspects of the events they launch as much as possible, thus maintaining its uniqueness and mystery.
In recent years, Augusta has begun to develop in the field of youth and amateurism. Starting in 2014, the Masters will be pre-tournamented with junior kick-offs, but this is only an exhibition game. In addition, it has launched the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship with the Royal Ancient Golf Club (R&A) of St Andrews and the Latin American Amateur Championship, which have become the highest level of amateur events in the region.
In this context, the Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament, hosted by Augusta alone, is even more remarkable, and it is directly named after the club. Moreover, unlike the youth kick-off cut putting tournament, which is a "match-in-game", the Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament is held independently the week before the Masters, which is evident in The Importance Augusta attaches to this event.
Like the Masters, the Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament is an invitational tournament format, with a squad limited to 72 players per tournament. In addition to the wild card issued by Augusta, each of the shortlisted criteria listed by it has a high threshold, such as the American Women's Amateur Championship, the Asia-Pacific Amateur Women's Championship, the R&A Women's Amateur Championship, the American Women's Junior Championship, the World Amateur Ranking Top 30, the past 5 Augusta Women's Amateur Championships, etc. All amateur players do not need to be experienced to meet the shortlisting criteria.
The format of the tournament is a 54-hole match, with the first two rounds played at the Champion Retreat Golf Club in Augusta. After the first two rounds, the top 30 players advance to the final round, which competes in the final round at Augusta National Golf Club. All players, whether promoted or not, can practice in a round at augusta National Golf Club. To be able to experience Augusta as a Grand Slam venue is undoubtedly a great temptation.
The benefits of the event's champions are weighty, and the champions will qualify for two women's Grand Slam events, the British Women's Open and the US Women's Open, as well as the next five Augusta Women's Amateur Tournaments.
Many amateur players have listed augusta women's amateur tournament as one of their goals before turning professional, which can be seen from the side of the influence of this event.
This year's line-up is particularly impressive. Of the top 25 players in the world amateur rankings, 24 are present. Rose Zhang, Ye Lei, Yin Xiaowen and Zeng Liqi are among them.
"Magic Powder" shines on Augusta
Despite the high difficulty of shortlisting, "there is nothing difficult in the world, as long as you are willing to climb", "magic fan" Zhang Siyang (ROSE ZHANG) has been shortlisted for 3 consecutive times.
Rose Zhang, 18, performed remarkably well in the Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament. She was only 15 years old when she entered the inaugural tournament in 2019, but managed to qualify and finished tied for 17th place. In 2021, when it was shortlisted again, ROSE ZHANG was already the world's first amateur, and after two rounds, he became the tie-leader, but unfortunately, in the final round, Augusta's famous "Amen Point" 13th hole tee mistake, swallowed three bogeys, with a one-shot difference, tied with the other 5 players in third place.
After several conquests, ROSE ZHANG gave Augusta and the event a high opinion. She said in 2021: "I love this stadium... Enjoyed playing here. Compared to two years ago, I feel that the green is faster this time, so it must be more difficult to beat than the last time. Playing the final round at Augusta is bound to be stressful, so I'll keep myself as calm as possible. In Augusta, in particular, you can't make mistakes and need to do your best to stay stable under pressure. ”
This year, rose zhang ( rose zhang ) , with the increasing maturity of her competitive experience, as well as stanford university, NCAA tempering, the performance in Augusta will be more determined.
In contrast, another "magic fan" Zeng Liqi is competing for the first time. In the past year, Zeng Liqi participated in a total of 7 games on the women's central tour as an amateur player, and all of them finished in the previous ten results, including three runners-up and two third-placers. Its most exciting performance came from the 2021 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Air Conditioning Championship, the flagship tournament of the Women's Central Tour, where Zeng Liqi and professional player Liu Wenbo played hard in the final round, and finally lost in the extended round and relegated to the second place.
In addition, she won the 2021 Women's Central Tour Second Division In Zhuhai, becoming the first amateur champion in the history of the tournament and setting a record for the youngest age to win the Women's Central Tour Second Division.
This week, these two extremely talented "magic fans" will join hands in the Augusta Women's Amateur Tournament, facing the complex and glass-fast green of the Augusta route, and the Uswing Magic Mirror, which has the reputation of "green reading artifact", will make them more focused on interpreting the route during the event. At that time, their performance in this high-profile event is worth looking forward to.