Captain Anne van Dam completed her European side with six automatic qualifiers off the PJSC ranking and six picks headlined by R&A Girls' Amateur champion Marta Munoz. The Sept. 7-8 matches at Bernardus Golf mark the first time the junior event is played on the same course as the Solheim Cup, with Morgan Pressel's U.S. team already set.
Garrett Rank closed with a 3-under 69 to erase Evan Nachtigall's two-shot lead and win at 18-under 270, joining Stu Hamilton as a four-time champion and trailing only seven-time winner Graham Cooke. The victory earns Rank an exemption into the U.S. Mid-Amateur at Sand Valley. Meanwhile at Hermitage Country Club, Will Collins of Charlottesville fired a 7-under 65 on the Sabot Course to grab a four-shot lead after Round 1 of the 84th Valentine Invitational, with Nicolas Brown, Blanton Farmer, and Winburne Hughes sharing second at 3-under 69. [Follow Valentine live scoring here](https://www.golfgenius.com/pages/12338736295793668275).
The 71st U.S. Senior Amateur opens Aug. 29 on Baltimore Country Club's par-70 East Course, with two stroke-play rounds cutting to a 64-man match-play bracket and the final on Sept. 3. Mike McCoy returns as defending champion a year after becoming the first player in USGA history to win both the U.S. Mid-Amateur and U.S. Senior Amateur.
