Golf: Towersey earns medalist honors at U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur

Championship

Richard Dunn

SEWICKLEY, Pa. - Marianne Towersey, a Newport Beach resident and

longtime women’s club champion at Santa Ana Country Club, won medalist

honors at the 40th annual U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at the

par-73, 5,737-yard Allegheny Country Club.

Towersey, who turned 50 this year and is playing in the event for the

first time, shot a two-round total of 144 Saturday and Sunday, the lowest

score by four strokes.

In Monday’s first round of match play, Towersey defeated Sandy

Szczerbin of Livermore, Calif., 2 and 1, to advance to today’s Round of

32. The finals are Thursday.

Towersey, the Newport Harbor High girls golf coach, could face

two-time defending U.S. Senior Amateur champion Carol Semple Thompson of

the host club in the finals.