June 27, 2005

EVANSTON, Ill. -- Incoming freshman Jennifer Hong won the Women's Western Golf Association's (WWGA) 105th National Amateur Championship on Saturday at Purdue's Kampen Course in West Lafayette, Ind.

Hong defeated Purdue University's Onnarin Sattayabanphot, a 2005 All-Big Ten selection, in Saturday's championship match. In Friday's two matches, Hong beat Jeana Dahl, a North Dakota state champion who is headed to Wisconsin this fall, and Vanderbilt's Chris Brady, a former North Carolina high school champion.

Hong, ranked in the top 20 Juniors in the country in the Golfweek Titleist Performance Index, has played in the USGA Women's Amateur Championship for the last two years, the USGA Girl's Junior Championship for the last five years, and has a few AGJA tournament wins to her credit.

Hong joins a Northwestern team that returns all but one of its players from an NCAA-regional qualifying squad.