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GREEN, REDMAN WIN ARIZONA SENIOR WOMEN’S OPEN IN PLAYOFF

Team needs two playoff holes to beat Maria McBride and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc

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April 26, 2023

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MESA – The team of Tammie Green and Michele Redman captured the 2023 Marilynn Smith Arizona Senior Women’s Open Wednesday at Longbow Golf Club in Mesa, needing two playoff holes to outlast the team of Maria McBride and Patricia Meunier-Lebouc. Green and Redman finished -17 overall after a final round -7 (65) in a Fourball format and will take home the $15,000 first prize, the biggest team payout in the event’s $60,000 total purse.

“It’s quite an honor to be here to be able to win this championship against all these great players – we’ve been playing against them for a long time, and we’ve had a lot of fun out there,” said Green, of Somerset, Ohio, and a member of the Ohio Golf Hall of Fame. “We didn’t really get started off very well – we bogeyed the second hole. And then I think we took the cellophane off the hole on number six, and it didn’t look back actually. If I was out of the hole, [Redman] was right there. And we really teamed well.”

“We’re just really comfortable with each other – I think our games are really similar,” said Redman, a two-time LPGA Tour winner from Plymouth, Minn. “We’re both pretty laid back on the golf course. We don’t overanalyze things. We got off to a slow start, but we finished really well. So that was fun.”

Green and Redman came into the final round one shot off the pace after a first-round -10 (60) in the Scramble format. A bogey on the second hole wasn’t the start they were looking for, but four straight birdies from holes six through nine got the team back in contention. They would birdie four of their last five holes, including a crucial birdie on 18 to force a playoff. Both teams made par on hole 10 to start the playoff, but Redman stuck her tee shot on the par 3 11^th hole to five feet and drained the birdie putt for the win.

McBride and Meunier-Lebouc recorded the best final-round score of the day, firing a -8 (64) that included an eagle on the 18^th hole that gave them the lead in the clubhouse. The team took home $12,000 for finishing in second place.

Danielle Ammaccapane recorded the shot of the day, holing out from just over 200 yards with a five-wood on hole 18 for the first double eagle of her career.

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