A Look At The Quarterfinalists

Pat Cornett, 50, of Mill Valley, Calif., is a 1986 graduate of Stanford Medical School.  The 2004 Women's Mid-Amateur will mark her 17 th time competing in the event.  Cornett lost in the finals of the inaugural 1987 Women's Mid-Amateur to Cindy Scholefield.  She has also made it as far as the semifinals twice in the U.S. Women's Amateur.

Lisa DeSimone, 31, of Phoenix, Ariz., is a student at Arizona State University.  She was a semifinalist in the 2002 Women's Mid-Amateur Championship at the Eugene Country Club.  She also competed in the 1999 and 2000 U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championship.

Virginia Derby Grimes, 40, of Montgomery, Ala., won the 1998 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship at Champions Golf Club in Houston, Texas.  She was also on the Curtis Cup team in 1998 and 2000 and competed in the 1997 State Team Championships.  She is a 1987 graduate of Auburn University.

Mina Hardin, 44, of Ft. Worth, Texas, was the runner-up at the 2001 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship at Fox Run Golf Club in Eureka, Mo.  Hardin was born in Mexico City.  Hardin (formerly Rodriguez) become the first Mexican woman to play on the LPGA tour in 1983.  She was reinstated as an amateur in 1991.

Kathy Hartwiger, 38, of Birmingham, Ala., won the 2002 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championship at Eugene Country Club.  This year will mark her ninth Mid-Amateur.  Her Alabama team also won the Women's State Team Championship in 1997.  Hartwiger has also played in seven U.S. Women's Amateur Championships.  More recently, she won the 2004 Alabama Women's Stroke Play Championship.

Sally Krueger, 46, of San Francisco, Calif., is a 1979 graduate of Stanford University where she was a two-time All-American.  She shot a 158 at the 2004 U.S. Women's Amateur and missed the cut by two strokes.  Krueger is also a three-time qualifier for the U.S. Women's Open.

Thuhashini Selvaratnam, 28, of Tempe, Ariz., is a 1999 graduate of Arizona State University where she won three National Championships with the women's golf team.  She is a native of Sri Lanka and made the Guiness Book of World Records for being the youngest National Champion when she won the Sri Lankan Open Amateur in 1989 at the age of 12.  She has also played in three other USGA Championships including the Women's Amateur Public Links, Women's Amateur, and Women's State Team.

Corey Weworski, 42, of Carlsbad, Calif., was a semifinalist in the 2003 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur at the Long Cove Club in Hilton Head, S.C.  She has not played a lot of golf recently because she has been spending time with her family.