PEBBLE BEACH, Calif. -- Ina Kim-Schaad outlasted Hanley Long in the longest championship match in U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur history Thursday, winning with an 18-foot birdie putt on the fifth extra hole on Monterey Peninsula Country Club's Dunes Course.

Kim-Schaad, a 42-year-old from Jupiter, Florida, also won in 2019. She is the fourth-oldest winner in event history and the first two-time winner since Julia Potter-Bobb in 2016. The tournament is open to players 25 and older with a Handicap Index that doesn't exceed 9.4.

"I'm overwhelmed with emotion, honestly," Kim-Schaad said. "I truly love this place, and my husband and I got married in Carmel. To do it at such a special place, golf course, with my family here and my husband on the bag, his birthday day week, and for a second time, it's

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