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(Update on 8/14) - Bailey Shoemaker advanced to the semifinals of the 122nd U.S. Women's Amateur Championship at Chamber's Bay. 

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West Edmeston's Shoemaker advanced through stroke play on Tuesday at 3-over, tied for 53rd, and advanced to the round of 64. She met California's Kaleiya Romero in the first round of match play.

The match was tight to begin with and through nine holes the players remained tied. Shoemaker pulled ahead on the par-4 tenth and increased her lead with a birdie on no.12. She closed out the match on no.14 and no.15, winning both holes to take the match 4 and 3.

The round of 32 featured Shoemaker and Tennessee's Kynadie Adams in a back-and-forth match. 

On the first hole of the match, Shoemaker jumped out to an early lead with a par and increased her lead with a birdie on the par-3 third. 

Adams eventually pulled even on no. 7, before Shoemaker snatched back the lead. The Tennessean battled back each time she was down, until Shoemaker birdied the par-4 16th.

The two players matched each other on the final two holes and Shoemaker took the match 1 up.

In the round of 16, Shoemaker squared off against another Californian. Amari Avery was the first opponent to take a lead over Shoemaker in match play. 

Avery held a lead as late as through 13, before Shoemaker took three of the last five holes to win 2 up and advance.

Shoemaker turned in a dominant performance in the quaterfinals as she didn't lose a single hole against Leigh Chien. She took the match 5 and 3, and moved on to face Japan's Saki Baba in the semifinals.

As dominant as Shoemaker was in the quaterfinals, it was reversed in the semifinals. Shoemaker was only able to win one hole, no. 8, and lost the match 7 and 6.

Baba would go on to win the championship, winning the final round against Canada's Monet Chun 11 and 9.

The U.S. Women's Amateur was Shoemaker's fourth USGA event of 2022. Her only higher finish came with partner Kaitlyn Schroeder at the U.S. Women's Four-Ball Championship in April.

Aliea Clark made it to the round of 64 before being eliminated. She fell to Leigh Chien on the 19th hole.

Melanie Green turned in a strong performance in stroke play, finishing tied for 11th at 11-under. However, she fell in the round of 64, 5 and 3, to Rachel Heck.

Alice Hodge, Kaitlyn Lee and Ina Kim-Schaad all missed the cut to advance to match play.

UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. - Seven players will represent New York in the 122nd U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at Chambers Bay next week, August 8-14. 

New York’s Aliea Clark was the runner-up in the 2021 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Berekeley Hall Club. She entered match play as the 64th seed and became only the fourth player in U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur history to knock off a No. 1 seed in the round of 64.

Clark's Mid-Am performance earned her an exemption into the 2022 Women's Amateur.

Melanie Green, of Medina, is a two-time New York State Public High School Athletic Association state champion. She competed in the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2018 and the U.S. Women’s Amateur in 2019. This year, she qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Open.

Green shot a 68 to medal at the Lake Forest Country Club qualifier in Hudson, Ohio.

Larchmont native Alice Hodge advanced to the round of 32 at the 2021 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship. She plays collegiately for Florida State University and has led the Seminoles to two top-10 national finishes.

Hodge qualified at the ountry Club of Salisbury in Salisbury, N.C., where she fired a round of 69.

Kaitlyn Lee is a member of the women’s golf team at Yale University. The Scarsdale product played in the 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship, advancing to the round of 32. She qualified again for this year's Fou-Ball, but did not compete.

New York’s Ina Kim-Schaad is a three-time International Women’s Four-Ball champion, capturing her third title earlier this year. In 2019, she was victorious in the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Forest Highlands. That victory earned her a place in the 2020 U.S. Women’s Open.

Kim-Schaad and Lee both punched their tickets to Chambers Bay at Nashawtuc Country Club in Concord, Mass.

Jennifer Rosenberg, of Laurel Hollow, was the 2019 NYS Women’s Amateur champion. In 2019, she claimed the Women’s Amateur Stroke Play Championship at Bethpage Blue. She plays collegiately at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Rosenberg secured the last qualifying position with a 75 at Crestmont Country Club in West Orange, N.J.

Bailey Shoemaker won three straight NYS Girls’ Junior titles from 2017-2019. The West Edmeston native, who currently resides in Dade City, Fla., advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Girls’ Junior in 2021. Shoemaker earned a spot at the U.S. Women’s Open this summer where she tied for 49^th. 

The U.S. Women's Amateur is Shoemakers fourth USGA event of the year. Only one other player in the field can boast that feat. Shoemaker earned an exemption into this year's field.

The course will be set up at 6,541 yards and play to a par of 73. Tee times are as follows (all times in PDT):