Tiffany Joh can now thoroughly enjoy the Robert F. Dwyer Trophy as the 2006 WAPL champion. The 19-year-old from San Diego defeated Kimberly Kim, 6 and 5, in the 36-hile final on Sunday at Walking Stick Golf Course. (Robert Walker/USGA)

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Joh Wins 2006 WAPL Title

Pueblo, Colo. – Tiffany Joh, 19, of San Diego, Calif., played 11-under-par golf over 31 holes, with the usual match-play concessions, in defeating 14-year-old Kimberly Kim of Hilo, Hawaii, 6 and 5, to win the 2006 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship at the 6,263-yard, par-72 Walking Stick Golf Course.

Joh’s brilliant play was punctuated with a hole-out from the fairway for an eagle-2 at the par-4 11 th hole, the 29th hole of the match. She went 6-up at that point and closed out Kim two holes later with a 6-foot birdie putt to halve the 31st of the scheduled 36-hole final.

Kim, meanwhile, was trying to become the second-youngest champion in WAPL history behind fellow Hawaiian Michelle Wie, who won this title as a 13-year-old in 2003. Joh, in fact, ended a three-year skein of under-18 WAPL champions that started with Wie and continued with 15-year-old Ya-Ni Tseng (2004) and 17-year-old Eun Jung Lee (2005).

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Championship Facts

U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links

PAR AND YARDAGE – Walking Stick Golf Course will play at 6,263 yards and a par of 36-36—72.

HOLE BY HOLE – Holes 1-9 will play at 3,114 yards and par 36.

Holes 10-18 will play at 3,149 and par 36.

COURSE SETUP –
Teeing ground – Height of grass – ½ inch
Fairways and approaches – Height of grass – ½ inch
Putting green collars – Height of grass – one mower width at ½ inch
Putting greens – Height of grass – 5/32 of an inch with a speed of 9.5-10 feet on USGA Stimpmeter
Primary rough – Height of grass – approximately 2½ to 3 inches

The championship setup results in a USGA Course Rating of 74.4 and a Slope Rating of 132.

ARCHITECT – Arthur Hills designed Walking Stick Golf Course, which opened in 1991. This is the second consecutive year a Hills-designed course will be a venue for a USGA public links championship. Shaker Run in Lebanon, Ohio, hosted the 2005 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.

 
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