Ina Kim-Schaad won for the second time the Mid-Amarate Women’s Championship of 2025 The dune of the Monterey Country Club Peninsula Club To seek a dramatic victory over her opponent, Hanley Long. The last match of 23 holes was the longest in women’s history in the US.
At the age of 42, Kim-Schaad is a USA event veteran, this year marking its 20th appearance of the USGA championship. With the victory, she became the fourth oldest champion ever among American women, and the first woman to win mid-midi twice since Julia Potter-Bobb in 2016. Kim-Schaad won her first title in the middle of AM in 2019 Forest Highlands Golf Club In Flagstaff, Ariz.
“I’m still overwhelmed with emotions, honestly,” Kim-Schaad said on Thursday. “I really love this place, and my husband and I got married in Carmel. To do it in such a special place, golf course, with my family here and my husband in his bag, his birthday week, and for the second time, it’s not even enough language to put all the feelings I am feeling.”
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Kim-Schaad hunted the game rounds in the blow from 72-79 (seven over) to get the 45th seed in the match round with 64. She won her first match 1; Her round of 32 Match 2 and 1, her 16th match 3 and 2, her quarter -final match 3 and 1, and her semifinal match 2 and 1, where she issued no. 1 Katherine Zhu seeds.
In the last match against Long, 27, Kim-Schaad won the first hole and never withdrew, but Long managed to tie the match four times different-involved in the 17th hole. Kim-Schaad eventually prevailed with a dramatic bird in the fifth additional hole.
“Left tickliers on the right are not my specialty, but I just wanted to give him a chance,” Kim-Schaad said. “I thought about putting it up there and two strokes, (tall) would have a difficult truth anyway. My genuine goal was to put it up there and give it a chance, and just happened to fall.”
“It was an absolute battle there all day,” Long said. “Hats off for our champion. She absolutely suppressed her today. Honestly, I’m just so proud of my grief and determination all day, keeping her head up and holding up and never giving up.”
With the victory, Kim-Schaad will take an exception to the next 10 women’s championships in the US, the 2026 and 2027 and 2027 women’s amateur championships at the US Women’s Championship in the US and at the US Women’s Open Championship in SH.BA Riviera Country Club.
US Women’s Championship in 2026 will be played in Montclair Golf Club In West Orange, Nj, September 29th. 3
