16-year-old Hannah O'Sullivan becomes youngest Symetra Tour winner
Sunday was a banner day for teenagers in women's professional golf events.
First, 17-year-old world No. 1 Lydia Ko picked up her sixth LPGA win at the Women's Australian Open.
Then, 16-year-old Hannah O'Sullivan made history on the Symetra Tour, the LPGA's developmental circuit. O'Sullivan, a junior at Chandler Hamilton H.S. in Arizona, won the Gateway Classic to become the youngest champion in the tour's history. Her 3-under 69 in the final round helped her to a four-shot win at the Mesa, Ariz., tournament with a 15-under 201 total for the 54-hole event.
O'Sullivan replaces Cristie Kerr as the tour's youngest winner. Kerr was 17 when she won the 1995 Ironwood Futures Classic in Gainesville, Fla. She's the first amateur winner on the Symetra Tour since Kellee Booth took the 1999 Pacific Bell Futures Classic in Riverside, Calif.
O'Sullivan has verbally committed to play golf at the University of Southern California, but she may have to give that some second thought now.
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