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Jandel vies for Ohio Am three-peat
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Emma Jandel enjoys the excitement of match play golf, but she is hoping for a better result this week than she has had in her last two match play experiences.
The 20-year-old Ohio State junior from Oakwood will attempt to become the second golfer from the Dayton area to win three straight Women's Ohio Amateur Championships.
The only one to do it was Janet Shock (Beardsley) in 1938, '40 and '42. Diana Schwab was a two-time champ, taking the trophy in 1989 and '90.
Jandel defeated Kathleen Ekey, a University of Alabama student from Wadsworth, in the final the last two years, but Ekey is not entered in the 2008 competition at Elyria Country Club.
Colleen Lienesch of Centerville, who won the Dayton Women's Match Play Championship 10 days ago, is in the field along with runner-up Lynn Grunkemeyer, Molly Ginger, Leslie Grabeman, Cathy Jefferson and Mary Oliver.
A member of the OSU women's golf team, Jandel has spent the summer in Columbus while taking a couple of classes and working on her golf game daily at the OSU course. She also played in the Western Women's Golf Championship at Newnan, Ga., and the North-South Amateur at Pinehurst, N.C., where she got to play Pinehurst's famed No. 2 course. Both are match play tournaments with stroke play qualifying rounds.
At the Western in June she qualified for match play but lost her first-round match, 2 and 1, to Cydney Clanton of Rockwell, N.C. Last week, at Pinehurst, she dropped a first-round verdict to Dori Carter of Valdosta, Ga., who won on the 19th hole.
"It's awesome down there," Jandel said of Pinehurst. "It was great playing No. 2."
Earlier, Jandel tried to qualify for the U.S. Women's Open. She got through the local qualifier but didn't advance from the sectional.
Mistake to learn from
If Jandel's younger brother, Sam, had never heard of Robert de Vincenzo, he surely has heard of him by now.
De Vincenzo was the guy who signed an incorrect scorecard after the final round of the 1968 Masters, knocking him out of a tie for the championship and a playoff with Bob Goalby after it appeared that both had finished with a score of 277.
Tommy Aaron, who was marking de Vincenzo's card, gave him a par 4 on the 17th hole instead of the birdie 3 he had made. Unaware of the mistake, de Vincenzo signed the scorecard. Under the Rules of Golf, the higher score had to stand, and de Vincenzo was credited with a score of 278 and second place.
Sam Jandel was disqualified from the Ohio Amateur this week when he made a similar mistake after shooting 77 in the second round at Findlay Country Club.
