It was on Megha Ganne’s head since she woke up Sunday morning before her women’s amateur championship match in the band Dunes against Brooke Biermann.
In all honesty, the Robert Cox trophy has been there for more than half a decade, after Ganne exploded on the American women’s amateur scene as a 15-year-old in 2019 when she lost to Albane Valenzuela in 19 holes in the semifinals. Two years later, in 2021 US Women’s Open, Ganne, then 17, divided the lead of 18 holes with Mel Reid and eventually ended up in a tie for 14th place.
Megha Ganne was apparently destined to set up a USA trophy.
After mounting a massive return to Saturday’s semi-finals against Australia Ella Scaysbrook-Gapne was four down with seven holes to play, an amateur 11th Rang Women in the world, had Sunday to finally reach her USA dreams.
This thought never thought, even when he tried to block him along the coast of Oregon as he fought Biermann.
“I will not lie,” Ganne said after the match. “I was thinking about this trophy all day, which makes it really distracted to play golf.”
If she was confused, Stanford’s growing old man did not show it.
She never traced Sunday against Biermann, a 22-year-old graduate of Michigan State. Ganne and Biermann each won three holes to start the match with 36 holes and were all square up to 11. But Ganne ran three wins in the 12-14-fale holes some clumsy games from Biermann-never looked back.
Ganne led by three on 18 -hole rest and won the first hole of the evening session to go up four up.
Whenever Biermann cut Ganne’s supremacy in three, she immediately pushed her back to four.
Biermann had a 20-legged bird blow in the 14th hole (32nd of the match) to cut Ganne’s lead in two to four to play. But she left her short and then lost her premature money to go down four to four to play. Ganne with two strokes in the 15th hole to remove Biermann and raise the trophy she has long curved after a 4 & 3 victory.
“Brooke didn’t make it easier for me. She showed so much war,” Ganne said. “This is possible my last women’s amateur, and I really really wanted to do that.”
Ganne’s talent has been well documented. Her game is world -class, but it is her true divisor who won the week in the bando and will help her when she follows her pro aspirations: her strength and mental solution.
On Saturday, while Ganne fell to Scaysbrook and her amateur women’s hopes in the US diminished, the star from New Jersey went to another country mentally to start excavating herself from a hole that could have condemned her dreams. For Ganne, the concentration was on holding the head down and executing the other purpose, preventing her mind from wandering the greatest task of eraseing a four -holes with seven to play.
“I think something I have tried to work for is not to like to really buy all the moment of the moment. The moment is something you create in your head,” Ganne said on Saturday after beat Scaysbrook in 19 holes. “I think about how not to rely on that feeling and just know this – how you don’t tell yourself a story. All you have to do is just go to hit good shots and something will happen to you if it means to be. Today was meant to be.”
On Sunday, with a march with 36 holes against Biermann in front of her, Ganne once again used a mental trick to open her mind to achieve an eternal dream.
“I just tried to play the first 18 like me (just) playing the golf course,” Ganne said while holding the trophy. “I knew that the match wouldn’t probably not start until the second round, so I just learned as much as I could for the course in the first round with these pins, and then managed to take advantage of and play really strong golf in the second 18.
“I can’t believe I’m now standing here.”
As the sun settled on the coast of Oregon, a scene unfolded by a story, it had undoubtedly told herself countless times as she beat the balls in the air, trying to make it a reality.
It was Megha Ganne who was holding Robert Cox trophy, finally an American women’s amateur champion.
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Josh Schrock is a writer and reporter for Golf.com. Before entering Golf, Josh was the interior of Chicago Bears for the NBC Sports Chicago. He previously covered 49ers and Warriors for NBC Sports Bay Area. A native Oregonian and Uo alum, seduces and spends his free time walking with his wife and dog, thinking about how the ducks will break his heart again, and trying to become half a professor into pieces. A true romantic for golf, Josh will never stop trying to break 90 and will never lose the confidence that Rory Mcilroy’s main drought will end (updated: he did it). Josh Schrock can be reached on Josho.schrock@golf.com.
