This mid -year inscriber defeated the world’s N ° 1 amateur in the playoffs for his first university victory

If the name Eila Galitsky is familiar, it is probably from the moment she burst into the golf stage a few years ago.

Thai Junior’s star won low amateur honors at the Chevron 2023 championship and also won the Asia-Pacific female amateur. Classified in 19th in the ranking of world amateur golf, she is one of the best fans of the game at only 18 years old.

When Galitsky decided to register a semester at the start of the South Carolina, he gave coach Kalen Anderson three best players. Louise Rydqvist and Hannah Darling are seniors out of competition, but Galitsky may be the secret weapon of the Gamecocks this spring.

Galitsky won his first university event during his second departure on Tuesday, capturing the Moon Golf Invititational at the Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Florida. She did it by draining a 35 -foot Birdie putt on the first hole in the playoffs to eliminate the N ° 1 amateur in the world, the Florida State Junior Lottie Woad. Galitsky drew 3 sous 69 in the final to enter the playoff series, and now she has her first university victory in a trailer.

Woad has not finished outside the top 10 for almost two years in an amateur competition, and the prevailing winner of Smyth Salver and the National Champion of the Augusta Autochale is one of the favorites to win the Annika Prize This spring, awarded to the Golf College in College Golf Player. But Galitsky, who was 3 years old in her last nine holes, hunted Woad to force a playoff series, then she buried the long Birdie Putt to highlight her arrival at the university golf course.

Florida State won the title of the team, finishing 2 sous, the only team under the peer. Wake Forest and South Carolina completed the first three.

This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Eila Galitsky Beats Lottie Woad in eliminatory to win the Moon Golf Title