Salt Lake City’s Kelsey Chugg completed her improbable run to the finals of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship in Houston, winning two matches Wednesday at Champions Golf Club.
Chugg took a 3-and-1 semifinal win over Marissa Mar of San Francisco. She’s trying to become Utah’s first winner of a USGA national event since Clay Ogden in the 2005 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship.
The Women’s Mid-Am is for golfers 25 and older. Chugg, 26, will oppose Mary Jane Hiestand of Naples, Fla., in Thursday’s 18-hole final match. Hiestand, 58, could become the event’s oldest champion. She won two matches that went to the 19th hole Wednesday.