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17-year-old Cary golfer earns spot in U.S. Women's Open

By Dane Huffman

Jun 12, 2009

Katherine Perry helped the Athens Drive girls win the state 4-A golf championship last fall.

On Thursday, she did something even more dramatic, winnng a local qualifier in Sanford to snag a spot in the U.S. Women’s Open.

The 64th Women’s Open will be July 6-12 at Saucon Valley Country Club in Bethlehem, Pa.

Perry, 17, and a rising senior at Athens Drive, fired a 3-under par 70-71_141 to take medalist honors. She took one of six spots in the Open. At one point in her second round, Perry was five under par.

“I knew going in I had to shoot under par,” Perry said Friday.

Perry, who lives in Cary, said her Athens teammates were there pulling for her, wearing “Team Perry” T-shirts with “U.S. Open, here we come” on them.

The other five qualifiers include Kathleen Ekey of Sharon, Ohio; LPGA tour veteran Rosie Jones of Atlanta, 13-year-old Yueer-Cindy Feng of Orlando, Fla., and Ashleigh Albrecht of Murrieta, Calif.

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