Sports Round-Up by Paul Beitler

Kaylee Imel qualifies
for Women’s Amateur

Fort Wayne — Bluffton’s Kaylee Imel and Ellen Port of St. Louis, Mo., both shot a 3-over-par 75 at Sycamore Hills Golf Club in Fort Wayne to lead five golfers, who qualified for the U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship.
The Women’s Amateur is for women with a Handicap Index not exceeding 5.4 and will be played from Aug. 9-15 at Charlotte Country Club in Charlotte, N.C.
Also qualifying were Milena Savich of Carmel, Ind., and Brittany Marchand of Canada, Ontario, both with a 4-over 76. The final qualifying spot was won by Aimee Neff of Carmel, Ind., after a six-person playoff of the players tied at 77. The first alternate is Kaira Martin of Paradise Valley, Ariz., and the second alternate is Jessie Jordan of Urbana, Ohio. The course was set up at 6,373 yards with a par of 72.
The Women’s Amateur is one of 13 national championships conducted annually by the USGA, 10 of which are strictly for amateurs.

3 share U.S. Juniors’ lead
McCormick Clouser 9 shots back
ADA, Mich. (AP) — Defending champion Jordan Spieth of Dallas shot a 5-under 67 on Monday to share the first-round lead with Stephen Behr of Florence, S.C., and Davis Womble of High Point, N.C. at the U.S. Junior National Championship.
Wyndham Clark of Greenwood Village, Colo., Curtis Thompson of Coral Springs, Fla., Bobby Wyatt of Mobile, Ala., and Shugo Imahira of Bradenton, Fla., were one stroke back on the Classic Course at Egypt Valley Country Club.
Bluffton’s McCormick Clouser, a senior at Norwell High School, finished the first round with a 4-over 76 (39-37).
The field of 156 players will be cut to 64 following Tuesday’s second round of stroke play. The championship’s 18-hole match play segment is scheduled to begin Wednesday with first-round matches. Second- and third-round matches are scheduled for Thursday while the quarterfinals and semifinals are slated for Friday. The 36-hole final match is scheduled for Saturday.
The 16-year-old Spieth, who won last year at Trump National in New Jersey and has committed to the University of Texas, is seeking to join Tiger Woods as the only players to win multiple U.S. Juniors titles. Woods won three straight from 1991-93.
Spieth finished tied for 16th at the PGA’s Byron Nelson Championship in May, six strokes behind winner Jason Day.