Towersey finishes fifth in Monterey Bay

Marianne Towersey, the women’s club champion at Santa Ana Country

Club and the girls golf coach at Newport Harbor High, finished the

2003 California Women’s Championship at Black Horse Golf Course in

Monterey Bay in fifth place after a final-round 79.

Towersey, 52, entered the third round Wednesday two strokes behind

eventual champion Erica Blasberg, a sophomore-to-be at the University

of Arizona. But the two golfers went in different directions.

Blasberg shot the first sub-70 round of the tournament with a

three-under-par 69, while Towersey’s final round finished seven

strokes over par. Blasberg finished with a 54-hole total of 216,

twelve strokes better than Towersey’s 228.

Big Canyon Country Club’s Channing Lovejoy fired a final-round 77,

matching her first-round score, to finish at 237, good for 16th.

The California Women’s Championship is open to all California

female amateurs, regardless of age.