Pacific Northwest teens capture USGA Women’s Four-Ball crown

For the fifth consecutive year, a teenage duo captured the first USGA title of the season. Natalie Yen, 18, of West Linn, Ore., and Asia Young, 16, of Bend, Ore., rolled to a commanding 5-and-3 victory — the second-largest margin in a final in the championship’s young history — to win the 10th U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball on a hot and windy day at Oklahoma City Golf & Country Club in Nichols Hills, Okla.

The duo defeated 17-year-old Kentucky residents Athena Singh and Keira Yun in the final match.

“I think overall, we trust each other to play our games, and we know we’re trying our best,” said Yen, who is headed to Texas A&M this fall. “We may have different styles on certain holes. But at the end of the day, I think we both know that we’re both able to score.“We won those three holes in a row from 4 to 6, and I think my putt on 4 really helped us kind of feel like, okay, now we can really start firing,” said Yen.