Successful month for Malini Rudra
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The LPGA Foundation announced on July 2 that Malini Rudra, an 18-year-old graduate of Syosset High School, New York, is among 30-high school graduates who will receive the highly coveted Marilynn Smith Scholarship. The candidates are shortlisted based on outstanding academic excellence, leadership skills, and active community involvement and service.
The Marilynn Smith Scholarship, named in honour of one of the LPGA’s 13 founding members, is awarded to high-school seniors who plan to play golf at an accredited college or university in the US. Each of the recipients in 2019 will receive a $5,000 scholarship.
Malini, a member of both the National Honor Society and the Spanish National Honor Society, has many outstanding debate achievements that include being the winner of the International Global Tourism Summit Hawaii and a semi-finalist in the Harvard Invitational at JV Public Forum.
Rudra will attend Williams College in Williamstown, Massachusetts, where she intends to major in political economics. She also plans to attend law school, with the long-term goal of becoming an attorney at a prestigious New York City law firm. Rudra is fresh off capturing her second straight
Nassau County girls’ varsity golf title for the Syosset High School Braves.
On July 17, she won her third straight Women’s Metropolitan Golf Association (WMGA) Junior Girls Open title. The three-straight championships are a record in the tournament’s 93-year history.
Megha Medallist at US Women’s Amateur Qualifying
A few months ago, 15-year-old Megha Ganne of Holmdel was the second-youngest player at the US Women’s Open held in Charleston, South Carolina, after finishing as a medallist in Sectional Qualifying in mid-April at Forsgate.
On July 17, she added to her list of accomplishments, firing a one-under 71, including a hole-in-one, to claim co-medallist honours in the US Women’s Amateur Sectional Qualifying Round at Raritan Valley Country Club in Bridgewater.
Previously, Ganne, who won the NJSGA Junior Girls Championship in 2018, shot 62 in her second round of the PGA Girls Junior Championship at the Keney Park Golf Course in Hartford, Connecticut, and finished sixth overall after rounds of 72-62-69-69 (272). Her personal-best (62) in the second round set a course record and is the lowest in Girls’ Junior PGA Championship history.