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Maggie Simmermacher Finishes -2 Under At World Amateur Championships

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KARUIZAWA, JAPAN— Old Dominion University freshman golfer Maggie Simmermacher (Buenos Aires, Argentina) shot 71-75-70-70=286 which is -2 under par to tie for 32nd out of 150 participants at the World Amateur Team Championships at the Karuizawa golf club. Simmermacher, who was chosen by Argentina to represent her country is the first ODU golfer to participate in this event.

Simmermacher helped lead Argentina to a tie for 20th with Chinese Taipei among the 50 nations competing.

Simmermacher was selected to lead her team has a result of her strong performances last year. She won three tournaments, which include the 2013 Campeonato Abierto Argentino de Damas Hurlingham, the 2014 Copa de Oro Mar del Plata and the 2014 Campeonato Nacional por Golpes. She placed third at Doral Publix Junior Classic, sixth at Duke of York Young Champions Trophy and the South American Junior Championship. Simmermacher is currently ranked #313 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Conducted by the International Golf Federation, which comprises the national governing bodies of golf in more than 125 countries, the World Amateur Team Championships are a biennial international amateur golf competition rotated among three geographic zones of the world: Asia-Pacific, American and European-African.  Each team has two or three players and plays 18-holes of stroke play for four days. In each round, the total of the two lowest scores from each team constitutes the team score for the round.  The four-day (72-hole) total is the team’s score for the championship.