Portland’s Tennant wins in Europe

Lara Tennant of Portland, Ore. has won The R&A Women’s Senior Amateur Championship, held this week at Frilford Heath Golf Club in Oxfordshire, just west of London.

Tennant is a 5-time PNGA Senior Women’s Player of the Year, and in 2022 was inducted into the Pacific Northwest Golf Hall of Fame. She won her second R&A Women’s Senior Amateur title when she outlasted England’s Emma Brown in a thrilling encounter.

Currently ranked 357th on the World Amateur Golf Ranking, Tennant returned a closing 2-under-par 72 over Frilford’s Red Course for a two-over-par 296 total to defeat Brown by five shots. Brown’s fellow 2002 Curtis Cup team-mate Kerry Smith placed third, six shots adrift of Tennant.