Hulst Madison win Women’s Senior Am

Kimberly Hulst (Sammamish) shot rounds of 79-79 (+10) to win the 27th Washington Senior Women’s Amateur, while Karen Madison (Spokane Valley) shot rounds of 78-78 (+8) to win the 13th Washington Super Senior Women’s Amateur. Both championships were held concurrently, July 28-29, at Desert Canyon Golf Resort in Orondo, Wash., over 36 holes of both gross and net stroke play.

Hulst began her round three strokes back of round 1 leader Tina Papatolis. On what was a difficult scoring day for all players, Hulst made the turn in 2-over with one birdie on the seventh hole. She quickly ascended the leaderboard when Papatolis carded a 10 on the par-4 sixth. On the back nine, Hulst birdied 11 and survived a 4-over stretch through holes 14 and 15 to finish with another 79. Papatolis, Leslie Folsom and Kim Titus all finished in a tie for second at 12-over, two shots back.