11/07/2022
It turned out to be a Cinderella story finale after all at the 2022 PXGWMPC. 16th seed Josee Doyon knocked off the first, eighth, fourth and finally the tenth seed in the Championship Match to take home the $15,000 Champion’s check, her share of the $60,000 overall purse.
Doyon won emphatically, with birdies on six of the last seven holes in the final match against Singapore’s Amanda Tan, the tenth seed. One down in the Championship Match through seven, Doyon squared the match with a birdie on 8. She then birdied on holes 9,11,12,13 and 14 on her way to a 4&3 upset.
Doyon also beat the 4th seed, Ji Eun Baik, 4&3, in the morning’s semifinal match. Baik is a three-time winner on the , of which the PXGWMPC is an official event. Doyon’s toughest match was Saturday afternoon’s quarterfinal match against local favorite 8th seed Auston Kim. That match went the 18-hole distance in a see-saw battle, in which she needed five birdies to overcome the six made by Kim.
The match to decide third and fourth place was a State of Georgia showdown, pitting LPGA veteran Jean Reynolds against Baik. Down since the first hole and eventually 4 down through 11, Baik fought back hard, whittling it to just one down going to 16. Reynolds drained her fourth birdie of the match on 16 and closed out the match on 17 to finish third in the unique match play tournament.
The Final Four – Doyon, Tan, Baik and Reynolds each endured 138 holes during the week, playing 36 holes on Saturday and again on Sunday. In the morning’s semifinal matches, Doyon knocked off Baik 4&3 and Tan beat Reynolds 2&1 to set up the Finals. The last woman standing was Doyon.
CONGRATULATIONS to 2022 PXGWMPC Champion Josee Doyon — who receives Flop, our coveted trophy supplied by — and the rest of the Final Four: runner-up Amanda Tan, third place Jean Reynolds, and fourth place Ji Eun-Baik!