HOWEY-IN-THE-HILLS, Fla. – Megan Schofill returned to competition this past weekend at the 91st Florida Women's Amateur Championship, and like teammate Mychael O'Berry did two weeks prior in her first tournament back, the rising sophomore and Florida native finished atop the leaderboard.
Schofill trailed by 10 strokes heading into Sunday's third and final round, but she came all the way back with a low round of 67 (-5) to win the tournament by one stroke.
"It's a really good feeling," she said. "After the first two rounds, I kind of shot myself in the foot and had no expectations coming into the final day. I just wanted to post a good number. I really had no expectations of winning. Sometimes it just happens. You play good enough, it can work out in your favor."
Schofill, playing at the Mission Inn Resort & Club (Par 72, 6,076 yards), started the third round with a double bogey, but she responded with birdies on the next two holes and shot a total of eight birdies on the day, including four on the back nine, to charge into the lead. She finished the three-day event at 1-under par.
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"Honestly for me, I just wanted to shoot an under-par score for the whole tournament," Schofill said. "So that was my main goal in the last round. I wanted to go low enough to get under par."
Schofill has become a regular in the Florida Women's Am, but this was her first time winning it. In February, she won her first collegiate tournament with a first-place finish at the Lake Oconee Invitational that included back-to-back rounds of 68 (-4). As a freshman, she led Auburn with four top-10 finishes before the season got cut short in March due to COVID-19. Her stroke average per round (71.95) was tied for best on the team.
This was Schofill's first competitive tournament since March.
"It felt great, but it was a weird feeling for sure," she said. "I just forgot how it feels to play a golf tournament. You go from playing two tournaments a month to four or five months without playing a tournament at all. I was happy to get back out there and play a real tournament."
Schofill, O'Berry and fellow teammate Brooke Sansom will all take part in the North & South Women's Amateur Championship, which tees off Tuesday at Pinehurst.