Jenna Kim of Raleigh won the Carolinas Golf Association Women’s Amateur Championship by three strokes Thursday at Stateville Country Club. Kim, a rising senior at Durham Academy, has committed to play at Yale University.
Kim finished at 6-under-par 210 after rounds of 72, 68 and 70. Anna Howerton of Winston-Salem, who plays at High Point University, shot rounds of 74, 69 and 70 to finish at 213.
Kim earned an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee, in August. Grace Ridenour of Raleigh was fourth at 215 and Durham golfers Ella Perna, who plays for High Point, and first-under leader Emerson Dever of Virginia Tech posted 217.
Recent Wake Forest graduate Morgan Ketchum of Winston-Salem shot 71, 73 and 70 to finish third. Virginia Tech’s Emily Mathews of Mebane shot 222, home schooler Hallie Wilson of Lewisville fired 223 and Western Kentucky’s Leah Edwards of Greensboro shot 225.
