To experience nail-biter, crowd-captivating, elite level competitive golf play you’ve got to cash out your 401(k), cross your fingers and enter the lottery for Augusta National tickets, right?

On the 18th green of Concord Country Club earlier this week, it was proven otherwise. There, in the late summer sun as spectators watched each moment, five women fought for the final spot in the match play round of the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship.

In that group of five was a home course favorite. Mia Lombardi, who plays for Trinity College, works summers as part of Concord Country Club’s golf operations and grew her game locally. “She works in our bag room!” one spectator said with delight as the sudden death hole came to a key moment: Lombardi staring down a 14-foot putt to take tha

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