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What were you doing at age 16? Perhaps hiding beer from your parents or sorting your baseball card collection or roaming the neighborhood on your BMX bike? You certainly were not doing what 16-year-old Anna Davis did Saturday at the Augusta National Women's Amateur where she shot a 3-under 69 to finish at 1 under and win by a single stroke over a pair of LSU Tigers in Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Stone. 

Davis, who is currently a sophomore in high school and does not yet have her driver's license, actually co-led early in the event with a 70 in Round 1 before firing a 76 in Round 2 -- both at Champions Retreat -- to fall two back of the lead going into the final round at Augusta.

Her round on Saturday was nearly flawless, though. On a day when only four women shot under par, she played the first nine in 35 and the second in a bogey-free 34 to get in the clubhouse at 1 under, just ahead of the leaders. She admitted after the round that she was watching leaderboards throughout the second nine, but when she closed out the 3-under 69 on the final hole, she was still looking up at the lead.

Stone was up two strokes at that point after an impressive birdie on the 16th hole, but she doubled No. 17 and made bogey at the last to go from 3 under and a win that looked safe to even par, one back of Davis for a playoff. Stone said afterward she tried to bounce back from the double on No. 17 in which she hit the wrong club on her approach but "stupid" mistakes on No. 18 kept her out of the winner's circle.

Davis was not one of the favorites coming into the week. How could she have been? She's barely too old to qualify for Sunday's Drive, Chip and Putt, and her World Amateur Golf Ranking is an even 100. She's clearly a good player, but she wasn't among those folks tabbed to win the most prominent women's amateur event on the calendar. The best finish of her career is probably the 2021 Girls Junior PGA Championship, and this year's ANWA was thought to be a stepping stone, not a launching pad.

However, Davis exuded composure all day. The lefty from San Diego rocked a bucket hat that screamed "swag" throughout, made just one bogey on one of the trickiest golf courses in the world -- including an insane up and down for par on No. 17 when she had to have it -- and did not seem rattled when Augusta National chairman Fred Ridley reminded her that she shares a birthday with one of the founders of the club, Bobby Jones.

Jarringly (at least for me), Davis said after the round and her win that one of her favorite memories at Augusta was Tiger Woods winning the Masters in 2019, which makes sense considering she wasn't alive for his previous four wins there.

Now she's part of that lore, and the ANWA has flexed a different muscle each year with its winner. The first time around was a war between future professionals Maria Fassi and Jennifer Kupcho. Last year, it got an international winner in Tsubasa Kajitani. This time around, the ANWA crowned a champion that was in middle school two years ago.

It's the beauty of this sport and the allure of this week. The golf ball doesn't know your age (young or old), and Davis has now done something that only 56 other humans (and only one other teenager) can say they have done in the 85-year history of this golf club.

Davis won a tournament at Augusta National, and perhaps nobody has ever made it look cooler than she did.

Rick Gehman and Mark Immelman react to Anna Davis' victory at the 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur. Follow & listen to The First Cut on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.