Klein, Voorhees Advance Into Match Play at Amateur

Emilee Klein of Studio City shot a two-over par 74 on Tuesday to share medalist honors with Debbie Parks of Carefree, Ariz., at the 92nd U. S. Women’s Amateur Championships at Kemper Lakes Golf Club in Long Grove, Ill.

Klein and Parks will lead 64 golfers into today’s first round of match play with 36-hole scores of one-under-par 143, one stroke better than Vicki Goetze of Watkinsville, Ga., the current NCAA women’s champion, who had a two-under 70.

Heidi Voorhees of North Hollywood, who had a 79 to give her a two-day score of 156 on the 6,345-yard course, also qualified for match play.

Voorhees and Klein are students at USC and Notre Dame High graduates.

Tracy Hanson of Rathdrum, Idaho, had the low round of the day, a four-under-par 68, to qualify at 147. Also at 147 was 1991 NCAA champion Annika Sorenstam, who had a second-round 74.

The cut came at 159, and among those failing to qualify were area golfers Carrie Leary of Santa Clarita (165) and Francine Epstein of Sherman Oaks (173).

Also failing to qualify were 1990 runner-up Stephanie Davis of Bainbridge Island, Wash. U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur champion Sarah L. Ingram of Nashville, Tenn., and former Women’s Mid-Amateur winner Martha Lang of Mandeville, La.

Voorhees, a junior and USC’s No. 1 player, was the winner last year of the Los Angeles Women’s championship. She played on the Notre Dame boys’ team for four years.