This morning, June 16th, 2021, the Kansas City Women’s Match Play Championship final round began. For the championship bracket it was a battle between the 12 seed Kenni Henson and the 7 seed Rachel Stous. Starting on the first hole, Kenni Henson came to play. She won the first three holes, and Rachel spent the rest of the front nine catching up. Once Rachel caught up on the 11th hole, she went on to win the 12th hole to go one up. Henson fought back on the back nine, but Stous claimed the Championship Title on the 18th green going one up.
The silver bracket side was a lot of the same with Scarlet Weidig (1) who faced off with Laine Evans (10). After Weidig conceded hole number 11, she proceeded to win five unanswered holes, and this allowed her to take the pressure off on the last nine holes. Evans tried catching up but, again, it was too little too late from her and Weidig came out on top. After speaking with Weidig about her victory, she pointed to her chipping and putting as the main aspects of her game that set her apart from her competition. Weidig then went on to say “When you got out of the fairway it was really hard to get back on to it. The course was tight in some areas with greens that were hard to make the ball stop on.” Scarlet shared that we can expect her to come back next year to defend her title.