• -The 2018 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur was her first USGA championship in 25 years

• -Made match play at the 2019 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Forest Highlands in Flagstaff, Ariz., and advanced to the Round of 32 at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur at Berkeley Hall Club in Bluffton, S.C.

• -Competed in the 2023 U.S. Senior Women’s Open, turning 50 a week before the event and finishing T38

• -Won the inaugural Georgia Women’s Mid-Amateur in 2023 (72-73) at Country Club of Columbus

• -Is a sixth grade social studies teacher at Elkins Pointe Middle School

• -Has two teenage kids, a son (who plays golf) and a daughter

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 75-78 - 153 in stroke play to finish T7

• -R64: Def. Giuliana Colavito 3 and 1

• -R32: Def. Corey Weworski 1 up

  -R16: Def. Mary Ann Hayward 4 and 3
  

• -No. 193 in Women's World Amateur Golf Ranking, the highest ranked female senior amateur in the world 

• -Won four straight holes in her Round of 16 match to defeat past champion Judith Kyrinis in 19 holes

• -Finished second to Sue Wooster in the 2023 Arizona Senior Women’s Amateur Championship at Briarwood Country Club in Peoria, Ariz.

• -2023 wins include: Victorian Senior Amateur, South Australia Senior Amateur Championship, Queensland Senior Amateur Championship, NSW Senior Amateur Championship, New Zealand Senior Championship, Tasmanian Senior Amateur

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 80-79 – 159 in stroke play to earn No. 34 seed

• -R64: Def. Terri Frohnmayer, 4 and 2

• -R32: Def. Ellen Port, 4 and 3

• -R16: Def. Judith Kyrinis, 19 holes

• -Semifinalist in 1987 U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur

• -Won the 2023 Colorado Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship

  -Competed in two U.S. Women's Opens (1992 and 1994)

• -Won the 2022 Texas Women’s Senior Stroke Play Championship

  -Won 1988 Arizona Women's Amateur

• -Wife of Jim Hardy, who coached Mark O’Meara, Brad Faxon, Peter Jacobsen and Bob Tway, among others

  -Played basketball and volleyball in college (UC Irvine and UC San Diego)

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 82-72 – 154 in stroke play to earn No. 14 seed

• -R64: Def. Tina Barker, 5 and 3

• -R32: Def. Christie Blasi, 2 and 1

• -R16: Def. Sylvie Van Molle, 19 holes

• -Won the U.S. Women’s Mid Amateur in 1991, 1993 and 1994

• -Runner-up in the 1993 U.S. Women’s Amateur

• -Member of the USA Curtis Cup Team in 1992, 1994 and 1996

• -Captained the USA Curtis Cup Teams to victory in 2021 in Wales and in 2022 at Merion Golf Club in Ardmore, Pa.

• -Inaugural LNGA Senior Amateur champion in 2021

• -Member of the Tennessee Sports Hall of Fame and Duke Athletics Hall of Fame

• -Played for the Duke Blue Devils from 1985-88, earning All-ACC honors as a freshman and All-American distinctions her junior and senior years

• -Played as an amateur in eight U.S. Women’s Opens

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 82-78 – 160 in stroke play to earn No. 36 seed

• -R64: Def. Sherry Wright, 1 up

• -R32: Def. Tara Joy-Connelly, 8 and 6

  -R16: Def. Jackie Foster, 7 and 6

• -Competing in her first U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur

• -Competed in the 2023 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

• -Won the 2023 Alabama Women’s State Senior Amateur Championship

• -Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, currently serving on active duty

• -Has won nine individual World Military Golf Championship titles, most recently in 2018

• -Has won seven Armed Forces Golf Championships, most recently in 2014

• -Has won eight Air Force Golf Championships, most recently in 2010

• -Volunteers at a First Tee program, and coaches youth soccer and basketball

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 78-78 – 156 in stroke play to earn No. 21 seed

• -R64: Def. Noreen Mohler, 6 and 4

• -R32: Def. Kathy Glennon, 7 and 6

  -R16: Def. Kathy Hartwiger, 2 and 1

• -Competing in her fifth U.S. Senior Women’s Amateur

• -Made the match-play cut in the 2023 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

• -Began playing golf at age 30, competed on the Northern Kentucky University women’s golf team at the age of 34

• -Became the first golfer ever inducted into the Northern Kentucky University’s Sports Hall of Fame

• -Won the 2021 Florida Senior Women’s Open

• -Won the 2021 Florida Senior Women’s Amateur

Road to the quarterfinals:

• Shot 78-80 – 158 in stroke play to earn No. 27 seed

• R64: Def. Lea Venable, 2 and 1

• R32: Def. Martha Linscott, 2 and 1

  -R16: Def. Stacy Slobodnik-Stoll, 2 and 1

• -Has competed in over 45 USGA championships, including 9 U.S. Women’s Opens

• -Runner-up in the 1995 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur

• -Member of the USA Curtis Cup Team in 1996 and 1998, securing the winning point in 1998

• -Mother of two-time Curtis Cup competitor and current World No. 10 amateur Rachel Kuehn; Rachel also will represent the USA in this month's World Amateur Team Championship in the UAE (played in France last year, helping USA to silver medal)

• -Brenda and Rachel’s golf bond dates to the 2001 U.S. Women’s Open, when Brenda competed in the championship while eight months pregnant with Rachel

• -Member of the Wake Forest Sports Hall of Fame

  -Represented Dominican Republic in the World Amateur Team Championship (her father played in the inaugural WATC for Venezuela); holds dual citizenship with United States and Dominican Republic

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 75-80 – 155 in stroke play to earn No. 17 seed

• -R64: Def. Suzanne Ricard, 3 and 2

• -R32: Def. Ginny Burkey, 21 holes

  -R16: Def. Lara Tennant, 4 and 3

• -Playing in her 82nd USGA championship

• -Won the 2009 U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship

• -Earned low-amateur honors in the 2019 and 2021 U.S. Senior Women’s Opens

• -Member of the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame

• -In 2015 played with her daughter Madison in the inaugural U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball

• -Sister of three-time U.S. Women’s Open champion and World Golf Hall of Famer Hollis Stacy (6-time USGA champion)

Road to the quarterfinals:

• -Shot 88-77 – 165 in stroke play to earn No. 57 seed

• -R64: Def. Gigi Higgins, 4 and 3

• -R32: Def. Pamela Koung 5 and 3

• -R16: Def. Stacy Dennis, 2 and 1