Photo: Steve Galluzzo
Representing Palisades High for the last time November 20 at San Gabriel Country Club, senior golfer Anna Song sought to do the one thing she had yet to accomplish in her remarkable prep career: win a state title. In a field featuring the best high schoolers in California, the three-time LA City Section individual winner and four-time City team champion birdied two holes on the back nine to complete an even par 72 and tied for fifth place with Petra Lee of Pleasant Grove and Alexis Faieta of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame. Song happened to be in the same threesome with Palos Verdes freshman Rina Kawasaki, who fired a three-under-par 69 and beat Zoe Jiamanukoonit of Torrey Pines with a birdie putt on the second playoff hole to win the championship.
Song shot two over to place 18th at state at Poppy hills as a freshman and carded a two-under 69 to finish second last fall (also at Poppy Hills), three strokes behind Jiamanukoonit.
The Stanford commit broke her own City Finals record with a seven-under 65 on Nov. 7 at Balboa.
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