postponed - Country Club of Waterbury One Day Tournament

Nicole Yatsenick Rallies to Win CWGA Championship

Nicole Yatsenick,17, who attends the Taft School in Watertown and plays out of the Country Club of Waterbury won the Connecticut Women’s Golf Association Championship at Wethersfield Country Club when she made a 3-foot birdie putt on the 37th hole (No. 1), the first of sudden death, to defeat Myra Macmillan.

Yatsenick rallied from a 5-down deficit after 14 holes to win her first state title over Macmillan, of Oronoque CC in Stratford.

In the semifinals, Yatsenick, , defeated Mimi Schreck of Oronoque 3 and 2, and Macmillan beat Nicole Coffey of ESPN and Pequabuck GC-Bristol, 6 and 5.

In the 18-hole Founders Cup final, Priscilla Wargo of Heritage Village CC in Southbury edged Jill Tryon of Hartford Golf Club 1 up. In the semifinals of the Founders Cup, Jill Tryon beat Joyce Curran of Heritage Village CC-Southbury 1 up, and Priscilla Wargo beat Carol Galbraith of Hartford GC, 2 up.

Robin Bickerstaff, CWGA Major Tournament Chairperson, Nicole Yatsenick, the 2011 Connecticut Women’s Golf Association Champion, and Penny Jones CWGA President

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