Former Rochester golfer rallies to win third Springfield Women's City Tournament title

Karlie Schnepp fired a tournament-low 3-over-par 75 at Lincoln Greens Golf Course on Sunday to win the 2022 Women's City Tournament.

The sophomore-to-be at Quincy University finished with a two-day total of 156. She had a 9-over 81 in Saturday's opening round at Bunn Golf Course. 

It is the third Women's City title for the 2021 Rochester High School graduate. Schnepp, a two-time recipient of The State Journal-Register's Large School Girls Golfer of the Year award, won the City tournament in 2018 and 2021. 

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Amy Fowler, who had a two-shot lead going into Sunday's round with a 79, had a 164 to finish second overall. Fowler was a 2020 graduate at Glenwood High School in Chatham. She will be a sophomore on the Illinois College women's golf team in the fall.

A pair of Springfield High teammates finished third and fourth. Senior-to-be Katie Chen had rounds of 84 and 83 to finish with a 167. While that was good for third in the championship flight, it won the high school division. 

Madelyn Beck, who will be a SHS junior, carded rounds of 83 and 86 for a 169 and a fourth-place overall finish. That was a runner-up score in the high school division and five shots clear of third-place finisher, Rochester junior-to-be Kiley Torres, who shot 85-89 for a 174, who was also third place in the first flight.

Ann Clark rounded out the women's championship division's top-five with a two-day score of 170 with a first-round 83. 

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In the first flight, Jayme Kirchner won a scorecard playoff to take the top spot over Jennifer Endres. Both golfers had identical 85-87 rounds for a score of 172.

The second flight also came down to a scoreboard playoff. Stephanie Murray won the tiebreaker after she shot a 177 (93 and 84). Angela Grable (90-87, 177) took second. 

In the third flight, Natalie Zak won with a two-day total of 184, which was good for fifth in the high school division, one stroke behind Megan Hoffman's 183. 

In the senior division, Connie Poinstingl shot an 85 on Saturday and a 90 on Sunday to win over Toni Aden and Judy Grintjes by three strokes, 175-178. Grintjes had a hole-in-one on Saturday at Bunn on the 91-yard, No. 8 hole.