Sophia Schubert Post-Round Quotes (PDF)

CHULA VISTA, Calif. – Senior Texas golfer Sophia Schubert will play for the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship on Sunday and has guaranteed herself a spot in the 2018 U.S. Women's Open. Schubert did so on Saturday with a 2 up victory against Chia Yen Wu of Chinese Taipei at the San Diego Country Club in Chula Vista, Calif.

Schubert would become the first Longhorn to claim the U.S. Women's Amateur in more than two decades. She will tee off in Sunday's 36-hole championship match at 9 a.m. CT, facing Albane Valenzuela, a Stanford golfer from Switzerland. Valenzuela is the No. 3 ranked golfer in the current Women's World Amateur Rankings and was the runner up in the 2017 European Ladies Amateur Championship, finishing second to Texas freshman Agathe Laisne .

"It means so much," Schubert said. "Standing on the first tee this morning, seeing those trophies out there and hearing that if I win today, I'll get to play in the Open, that just means everything because that's what I've worked for my whole life."

Schubert, a native of Oak Ridge, Tenn., was an Honorable Mention-All American by the Women's Golf Coaches Association during her junior season of 2016-17. She concluded last season with a team-best 72.49 stroke average, leading her team in seven tournaments with seven top-10 finishes and five top-five showings.

Schubert looks to become the first Texas golfer to win the U.S. Women's Amateur since Kelli Kuehne took home back-to-back titles in 1995 and 1996. Kuehne, who recently was selected to be inducted into the Texas Golf Hall of Fame, was a two-year member of the UT women's golf team (1994-96), earning All-America honors and Southwest Conference Golfer of the Year accolades as a sophomore in the 1995-96 season. She was the 1996 Southwest Conference individual champion and tied for 10th at the NCAA Championship that season.

Kuehne, honored in the amateur player category, won the 1994 U.S. Girls' Junior, the U.S. Women's Amateur in 1995 and 1996, the British Ladies Amateur in 1996, and played on the 1996 Curtis Cup team before joining the LPGA Tour. On May 30, 1999, Kuehne won the LPGA Corning Classic, and competed on the U.S. team for the Solheim Cup in 2002 and 2003.

Schubert also is looking to become the second Texas golfer on the 2017-18 team to have won a USGA Championship. Incoming freshman Kaitlyn Papp was a member of the victorious 2016 U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship duo.

SOPHIA SCHUBERT RESULTS AT THE 2017 U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR

Stroke Play – T38th – 4-over-par 148 [74-74]

Round of 64 – def. Naomi Ko, N.C. State [4 and 3]

Round of 32 – def. Krystal Quihuis, Arizona [3 and 2]

Round of 16 – def. Zoe Campos, Valencia, Calif. [7 and 6]

Quarterfinals – def. Isabella Fierro, Mexico [3 and 1]

Semifinal – def. Chia Yen Wu, Chinese Taipei [2 up]

TEXAS WOMEN'S GOLFERS WHO HAVE WON THE U.S. WOMEN'S AMATEUR

Michiko Hattori, 1985

Kelli Kuehne, 1995

Kelli Kuehne, 1996