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2018: The Summer of Yealimi Noh

Yealimi Noh is having quite the summer in 2018. On Sunday, July 22, she won her third big tournament - and it's the biggest of them all for juniors: The U.S. Girls' Junior Championship. Noh defeated 13-year-old Alexa Pano, 4 and 3, in the championship match, which was played just four days before Noh's 17th birthday. In the quarterfinals, Noh defeated Valery Plata of Colombia, 7 and 5; and in the semifinals she beat Gina Kim of North Carolina. Noh, from Concord, Calif., entered the 2018 U.S. Girls' Junior ranked No. 54 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings. She'll obviously be moving up. Eventually, she'll be moving on the UCLA for college golf (at least that is the plan as of now). Earlier this summer Noh won the AJGA's Hana Financial Group Se Ri Pak Junior Championship, one of the big events of junior golf. And just a couple weeks ago she won another of the "junior majors," the Junior PGA Championship, with a record-setting score of 24-under

Muni He Collects Her First Symetra Tour Victory

Muni He has the change to become a major star in golf and she took a major step in the right direction by winning the Symetra Tour's 2018 Prasco Charity Championship. The tournament, played in Cincinnati, Ohio, concluded on July 1. He won comfortably, finishing four strokes ahead of runner-up Becca Huffer. He carded rounds of 65, 69 and 67, finishing at 15-under 201. He, who is from China and whose nickname is Lily, is in her rookie year as a pro after spending two seasons on the University of Southern California golf team. In nine previous appearances on the Symetra Tour in 2018, Muni's previous best finish was a tie for seventh place. That was her only Top 10 until winning the Prasco Charity Championship. He boasts a stellar pedigree in junior and amateur golf. She is also, as might guess from the photos, an amateur model. She has more than 140,000 followers on Instagram . And as her golf career heats up, expect her modeling career to heat up, too. A post s