2024 IGA Yearbook

65 Country Club in Bettendorf. Even more impressive than the gap between her first and last titles was the fact she claimed five of them in 10 years beginning in 1963. Nydle was inducted into the inaugural class of the Iowa Golf Hall of Fame in 1989 because of her intricate part in history. Corkey played her 46th and final Iowa Women’s Amateur in 2003, proving once again that age is nothing but a number. With the shift from match play to stroke play, the door opened for new records to be created each time the championship teed off. No single championship record stands out more than the performance Kristin Paulson put on in 2011 as she captured her second straight title after firing a staggering 14-under par 202. Sunnyside was no match for the soon-to-be senior at Iowa State as she turned the course into a personal playground. Firing at pins and raking in birdie after birdie, Paulson turned in a dazzling nine-under-par 63 in the second round. Her second round saw her jump not only into the lead but into the IGA record books as the lowest single round in championship history.