Player Bio: Bailey Shoemaker (a)2022 U.S. Women's Open

Age: 17
Country: United States of America
Road to Pine Needles: Qualified at the Stuart, Fla., site on May 9

Two weeks after finishing as the runner-up (with partner Kaitlyn Schoreder) in the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship in Puerto Rico, Shoemaker qualified for her first U.S. Women's Open by earning medalist honors at Willoughby Golf Club in Stuart, Fla. Shoemaker posted a 36-hole total of 1-under-par 143 (68-75). Shoemaker is committed to play for the University of Southern California in 2023. Last summer, she advanced to the quarterfinals of the U.S. Girls' Junior. She also earned a sponsor's invite to the LPGA Tour's Volunteers of America in Texas, she missed the cut. Shoemaker represented the USA in the 2021 Junior Solheim Cup contested at Sylvania Country Club in Ohio. She is a three-time New York State Girls Junior champion and has twice earned low-amateur honors in the Florida Women's Open. Although she was born in Florida, she was raised in the small upstate New York town of West Edmeston. In 2018, she tied for second in the Girls 12-13 Division of the Drive, Chip & Putt Championship at Augusta National.

U.S. Women's Open Playing Record