You can tell that Sarah Hoffman, now the two-time champion of the Ann Arbor Women’s Golf Championship, enjoys the game.

Playing 18 holes Saturday morning wasn’t enough for Hoffman. The Saline High School grad, after shooting a 71 at Leslie Park Golf Course in the opening round of the Women’s Golf Championship, played another 18 in the evening at Travis Pointe Country Club.

Hoffman used her first-ever sub-par competitive round to build a five-stroke lead over Alicia Zuckerman after Saturday’s first round. She built on that lead on the front nine Sunday with an even-par 36, putting her 11 shots up on Zuckerman and 12 up on 2006 winner Julie Inwood.

After a par on the 10th hole, Hoffman had her first bad hole of the tournament. Her tee shot on the par-5 11th ended up in weeds on the left side, forcing her to punch out sideways and leading to a double-bogey seven. That started a stretch of five above-par holes over the final eight for a round of 80. To that point, Hoffman had just three bogeys in the tournament.

Meanwhile in the group ahead of Hoffman’s, Inwood, a former University of Michigan golfer, was putting together a 1-under-par back nine.

Inwood’s round of 73 on Sunday, blemished only by a double-bogey on eight and a bogey on nine, was still not enough to overcome Hoffman’s 28 holes of 1-under golf as the defending champ earned a three-stroke win 151-154. Zuckerman shot 81 Sunday and took third for the second straight year with 157.

“That’s why you shoot low on the first day,” Hoffman grinned, happy to have repeated as champion but knowing she left shots on the course on the back nine. “I know I can play better than I did on the back. The 11th hole kind of set the tone for my back nine.”

Inwood, meanwhile, had done just about all she could to catch Hoffman.

“I was putting the ball a lot better today,” she said. “Yesterday, nothing would drop for me. Today, I was able to relax a little bit and I was hitting the ball pretty consistently.”

It just wasn’t enough to overcome Hoffman, who this year earned both second-team All-America and Academic All America honors playing at Grand Valley State. She’ll next play in the Michigan Women’s Open on July 12-14 at Crystal Mountain, where last year she tied for the 10th best amateur score.

Lauri Ponikiewski won the first flight with a 174, Joy Johnsen’s 186 put her atop the second flight. Fifteen-year-old Taylor Hansen, one of the youngest competitors in the tournament’s history, shot 199 and took third in the second flight.

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