The Andalusian Julia Lopez, a native of Benahavis, continues to raise her stock in the United States, where she is in her second full season. Now she has shared victory in her Regional, the previous to the great final of the University League of the United States, in the field of The Club at Chatham Hills, in Indiana. In his seventh win on the other side of the Atlantic.
The player from Costa Rica, who is in her second year at Mississippi State University and was part of the Spanish teams that won the gold medal at the European Under 18 Women 2021 and the World University 2022, has concluded with -13 after delivering cards of 67, 66 and 70 strokes.
With this result he has led his team to the final, which is divided into a first Medal and a second Match Play part, to be played from May 19 to 22 in Arizona.
Carla Tejedo (LSU), Lucía López (San José State), Carolina López-Chacarra (Wake Forest), Blanca Fernández (Texas A&M) and María Caparrós (New Mexico) also qualified for the finals with their respective teams.
In mid-April, Julia Lopez herself increased the number of Spanish victories in the U.S. Collegiate League this season by brilliantly winning the SEC Individual Women’s Championship held at Greystone Golf & Country Club, in the town of Birmingham in the state of Alabama.
The Malaga-born player achieved the victory after an outstanding 4 under par in the final round that was decisive in this new victory in North American lands, which was added to five others obtained previously since the end of 2021 to date.
In Alabama, a great start, reflected in an opening round of 69 that placed her at the top of the leaderboard after the first 18 holes of competition, gave way to her more discreet round, 75 strokes that jeopardized her victory in the framework of a premonitory performance, since her end of the day included three fantastic birdies in the last three holes.
With a partial of 144 strokes, Julia Lopez was obliged to achieve a magnificent performance to get the victory, a feat to which she got down to work from the first hole of the last day. Four birdies and a single bogey put Julia Lopez in a position to win the title, although she needed another birdie on the last hole to overcome the resistance of Megan Schofill, a golfer from Auburn.
Unaffected by the enormous pressure, Julia Lopez holed the winning putt with mastery and determination, achieving a victory that was added to those previously harvested in the Sam Golden Invitiational 2021, FAU Paradise Invitational, Westbrook Invitational, Palmer Cup and Blessings Collegiate Invitational, the last four in 2022.
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