Lauren Doughtie Cousin to yours truly has four weeks to go until the Sentra Futures Tour championship tournament. Lauren is outside the top fifty and if it was the top fifty on the LPGA that would lead to a very good season on tour, but this is the minor league tour and top fifty is a struggle to survive.
This weekend the tour made a stop in Richmond which since she is a resident of Suffolk this would be considered her home course on tour. Two years ago Richmond didn't act like a home course as Lauren failed to make the cut.
Lauren opened with 71 on Friday which was good to be tied for 23rd. Saturday Lauren shot her second best professional score carding a 67 which bumped her all the way to fourth 2 shots off the lead. I can tell you being two shots out heading into the final round sends the entire Doughtie clan into a frenzy. Today Lauren shot a 70 giving her a three day total of -8 and alone in fourth place.
She won once in 2012 so this fourth is her second top five finish in her career now in her fourth on the Futures Tour and one on the big tour. Her winnings today will hardly budge her upwards in money earnings but now with three regular tournaments to go she has momentum. The goal for any on the minor league tour needs to finish the year in the top ten to automatically qualify for the LPGA without having to go to a qualifying school.
Today is day four of the American Legion World Series but opening day the Shelby Tournament broke the all time attendance record with more than 7,300 at the opening game Thursday afternoon. . The all time record had stood since 1936. The next record to be broken is the all time tournament attendance record which is over 108 thousand set in 1938. There have been three games per day
giving every team three games. The top four after today play Monday and Tuesday for the title.
Since Shelby became the home to the World Series. Three of the top five most attended days at the World Series have come in Shelby. It is surely a good decision by the American Legion to move to Shelby just wish eastern North Carolina was a hotbed like that area is around Charlotte.
Sunday, August 17, 2014
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