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 Troy senior Ysabel Tran wacthes her second shot on the 15th hole on Monday at Dad Miller Golf Course. She posted a 5-under-par 66 to win the CIF-SS Individual Regional.
Troy senior Ysabel Tran wacthes her second shot on the 15th hole on Monday at Dad Miller Golf Course. She posted a 5-under-par 66 to win the CIF-SS Individual Regional.
Damian Dottore. Sports. HS Reporter.

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ANAHEIM – It was just one of those days for Ysabel Tran, the kind where even when she made a mistake the results were pretty much perfect.

Take the 15th hole at Dad Miller Golf Course. The Troy senior hit her approach a bit thin, yet the ball rolled up on the green, stopping 7 feet from the hole.

Then on the first tee, she pulled her drive right and into the trees, but she still had an opening big enough for a great angle to the green.

By the time she was done with her round Monday, she had six birdies andthe lowest 18-hole score of her career, a 5-under-par 66 to become the first girls golfer for Troy to win a CIF-SS Individual Regional.

Tran, along with the top 36 golfers from the tournament, advances to the CIF-SS Individual championship at Western Hills Country Club on Nov. 6.

“I don’t think this has fully sunk in yet. So far, I am just happy,” Tran said. “When I got here this morning, I kind of felt nervous because I saw all of these people that are better than me in skills and everything.”

Diamond Bar senior Bethany Wu, the No. 3 player in the Golfweek national girls Sagarin rankings, also posted a 66, but Tran won the tiebreaker, shooting a 4-under-par 32 on the back nine.

Wu, who went out of bounds on No. 14 and took a double bogey, carded a 34 on the back nine to place second.

Corona del Mar sophomore Alyaa Abdulghany fired a 4-under 67 and finished third. Beckman’s Cameron Lee tied for sixth with a 69.

“Somehow, I just got the confidence to play my own game and not think about that (the deep field),” Tran said. “That is what really helped me on the course.”

After her round, Tran couldn’t find her playing partner, who needed to sign Tran’s card so that she could post her 66. After a frantic, 10-minute search, Tran tracked down the player and got the signature she needed to make the round official.

Without the signature, Tran wouldn’t have been able to turn in her scorecard.

“I was so happy with my score, but when I couldn’t find her, my heart dropped,” Tran said.

She had the same feeling on her finishing hole, which was the par-4, 326-yard No. 1. (Tran began the tournament on the second hole.) Her chip came up short of the green and landed in the fairway, leaving her 10-feet away. But she drained the 10-foot putt, to make par on the hole.

“I was just focusing on trying to get it close to the hole so I would have a good putt just in case some thing happened,” Tran said. “But for some reason, it just kept rolling and rolling and it dropped in. I was so happy.”

Contact the writer: ddotore@ocregister.com