Wichita high school senior in Puerto Rico for another prestigious golf tournament
The accolades continue to pile up for Kate Tilma before she has even graduated high school.
While her most of her peers at Kapaun Mt. Carmel are thinking about where they want to go for their senior trip, Tilma is in Puerto Rico this week to play in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball Championship.
Tilma, a Kansas State women’s golf signee, qualified for the prestigious USGA tournament with partner Kate Strickland, another 2022 prospect from Lincoln, Nebraska. The duo is one of 64 pairings to compete in the tournament and is set to tee off at 11:02 a.m. Central time Wednesday and 7:42 a.m. Central time Thursday.
This is the second consecutive appearance for Tilma and Strickland in the Four-Ball Championship, as they just missed the cut for match play last year in a 5-for-1 playoff. Live scoring from the Grand Reserve Golf Club in Rio Grande, Puerto Rico can be found on the USGA website.
Tilma is already one of the most decorated female golfers in Kansas history before her high school graduation.
Most notably, she became the first female golfer to win the Kansas Junior Amateur and Kansas Amateur in the same year when she pulled off the feat in the summer of 2020 as a 16-year-old.
Tilma also played her first season of Kansas high school golf this past fall, teaming up with younger sister, Meg, a freshman, to deliver one of the most dominant team performances in state history. Kate won five tournaments with a season-low round of 65 to claim the City League title and finished runner-up at the Class 5A state tournament to lead the Crusaders to an undefeated season capped with a team state championship.
This story was originally published April 20, 2022 at 6:00 AM.
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