Three Michigan Women Shined at USGA Mid-Am Championship

Kimberly Dinh of Midland, Jacqueline Setas of East Lansing and Laura Bavaird of Trenton each advanced to the match play rounds of the U.S. Women’s Mid-Am Championship in mid-September. Both Dinh and Setas ultimately reached the quarterfinals (the final 8 players) before missing out on the chance to be in the Final Four, after Dinh knocked out Bavaird in the second round. The event was played at Fiddlesticks CC in Fort Myers, Fla.

Dinh, a researcher at Dow Chemical, former high school state champ and 2021 Michigan Women’s Amateur champ, beat last year’s USGA runner up Blakesly Brock in the round of 16 to get to the quarters, where she lost, 4-and-3, to the eventual champion, Krissy Carman of Eugene, Ore.

Setas, who won a high school state title and played golf at MSU, was leading late in the quarterfinals but eventually bowed out to Aliea Clark in 19 holes. Two rounds later, Clark became the national runner up to Carman.

Bavaird is a former high school state champ and two-time Michigan Women’s Amateur winner who played at Western Michigan and now serves as the director of the GAM Foundation.

What an impressive showing by these Michigan women golfers.