Bandon Dunes<\/a>\u2019 first hole, flighted it perfectly into the fan and watched as the ball disappeared into the hole for eagle.<\/p>\nDavis tried her best to match, wedging her approach to 6 inches, but the hole was Ganne\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201cKind of a crazy start,\u201d Ganne said.<\/p>\n
Ya think?<\/p>\n
It wasn\u2019t surprising considering the credentials of both players. Ganne, a rising senior at Stanford, is a two-time first-team All-American and ranked No. 11 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Davis, an Auburn junior with a pair of second-team honors under her belt, is No. 14 in the world. Both have starred on the biggest of stages, including in team competitions such as the Curtis Cup and Arnold Palmer Cup.<\/p>\n
Despite their close relationship, this was Ganne and Davis\u2019 first official matchup.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe weren\u2019t really looking forward to playing each other because we\u2019re such great friends,\u201d Ganne said, \u201cbut I thought it brought out a lot of great golf shots from both of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
Knowing the foundationally gifted Davis wouldn\u2019t provide a ton of opening via mistakes, Ganne knew she had to be aggressive. The stars traded blows early as there wasn\u2019t a tied hole until the sixth. Ganne, 1 down after three, stayed 1 up with a gritty up-and-down par save from the fescue at the par-4 fifth, where she rolled in a 20-footer.<\/p>\n
Davis tied the match up with a birdie at the par-4 eighth, though Ganne bounced back by winning the next three holes, including the par-4 10th from 7 feet and the par-4 11th, where she chipped in for birdie.<\/p>\n
Davis didn\u2019t go away, eagling the par-13th to get a hole back. But ultimately, Ganne proved too much, and she ended her match nearly how she started it, scaring the hole from 50 yards out at the short, par-4 16th.<\/p>\n
Five feet later, and Ganne was advancing to Thursday afternoon\u2019s Round of 16, where she\u2019ll face another talented opponent, world No. 20 Kary Hollenbaugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BANDON, Ore. \u2013 If one needed any indication of what to expect from Thursday morning\u2019s final match off…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":129125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[1430,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-129124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114993341915957626","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}