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CORNING, N.Y. -- California’s Gabriella Gu and Canada’s Carlee Meilleur each earned a spot at the 76th US Girls Junior Amateur Championship, by way of sectional qualifying at Corning Country Club.

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The 15-year-old, Gu, claimed the medalist of the sectional qualifier on Thursday. She carded a 71 (+1) on a windy day in Corning. Gu has two career AJGA wins, the last one coming in April of this year at the AJGA Junior All-Star at The Mission Club, in Lompoc, California. 

Gu on claiming the medalist honor, “I’m really excited, I attended a qualifier last year and got an alternate spot so I was super bummed about that. I’m really excited to go out to Georgia next month.”

Gu said, “The course was a lot of fun and the holes are really narrow so that was tricky but I have a lot of faith in my driver.”

“My putting was really good, I was chipping a lot and made a lot of 5 and 6 footers in the last couple holes.”

Alongside Gu, heading to Georgia is Meilleur that won in a 3-player playoff. The three-way tie at the end of the round was with two Canadians, Avery Norman who qualified last year, andMeilleur, and Vidhi Lakhawala from New Jersey. All three players were tied at 3-over par (73) round. The playoff went three holes and ended up with Meilleur winning the third playoff hole by birdying. Nordman claimed 1st alternate honors and Lakhawala claimed 2nd alternate.

The course was played at 5,900 yards and a par of 70.

Atlanta Athletic Club in Atlanta, Georgia will play host to this year’s U.S. Girls Amateur.