With Women’s Elite Series, Southwestern Am is ready for its close-up
By Sean Melia of AmateurGolf.com Women’s amateur golf has been growing quickly, especially in the last decade. The players are better, and the pool is deeper. Events are popping up around the country to help the wealth of women’s amateur players compete on great courses against strong fields. In an effort to create some continuity, the Women’s Elite...
Women’s Elite Amateur Golf Series launches in 2024
The Southwestern Women’s Amateur will be a member of a new tournament series as part of its mission to align the top competitive amateur events in the United States. The Elite Amateur Golf Series has announced that five leading women’s amateur events representing over 345 years of conducting championships will form the Women’s Elite Amateur Golf...
Southwestern Am alum Collin Morikawa wins the PGA Tour ZOZO Championship
The SWGA would like to congratulate Collin Morikawa on his victory in the PGA Tour ZOZO Championship in Japan this past weekend. Morikawa broke through Sunday with a 7-under 63 for a six-shot victory at the Accordia Golf Narashino Country Club just outside Tokyo. “It feels so good, I can’t even explain it,” Morikawa said....
Past participant Sahith Theegala gets first PGA Tour victory
The SWGA would like to congratulate Sahith Theegala for winning the PGA Tour Fortinet Championship, his first PGA Tour victory in just his second year on tour. The 25-year-old shot 68-64-67-68 for a 21-under 267 total and to tie the tournament record and win by two shots. Theegala played in the Southwestern Amateur in 2015...
Southwestern Women’s Amateur players to tee it up at the U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach
The Southwestern Golf Association wishes good luck to Minori Nagano, Julia Misemer and Grace Summerhays, who are in the field at this week’s U.S. Women’s Open at Pebble Beach Golf Links. All finished in the top 20 of the 2023 Southwestern Women’s Amateur, with Nagano leading the way with a 5th place finish. Past participants...
Davis Bryant stays hot at the Northeast Amateur
Back-to-back Southwestern Amateur champion Davis Bryant continued his good play at the Northeast Amateur, shooting rounds of 67-70-64-68 to finish fourth at Wannamoisett Country Club. His score to par in the Southwestern and Northeast Amateurs is 29 under. Next stop for Bryant is the North & South Amateur at Pinehurst.
Sophie Zhang-Murphy flips the script, wins Southwestern Women’s Amateur
Sophia Zhang-Murphy (Saratoga, Calif.), a rising sophomore at Princeton University, shot a final-round 68, her fourth straight round in the 60s to win the Southwestern Women’s Amateur at Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. For three rounds on the Cochise Course at Desert Mountain, as in the Men’s championship, the field looked up to a...
In final-round comeback, Davis Bryant repeats at 108th Southwestern Amateur
On the final day of the 108th Southwestern Amateur, Davis Bryant (Aurora, Colo. / Colorado State University) shot a 6-under 66 to come from five shots back and successfully defend his title at the Desert Mountain Club’s Cochise Course in Scottsdale, Ariz.. For three rounds and 13 holes on Saturday, the field looked up at Louisiana State...
Ashley Menne has third-straight high finish in Southwestern Women’s Amateur
Ashley Menne (Surprise, Ariz. / Arizona State University) shot rounds of 69-71-70-68 for a 10-under 278 total and a solo fourth-place finish in the Southwestern Women’s Amateur on the Cochise Course at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Ariz. It was Menne’s third straight high finish in the event, having previously finished T7 last year and T3...
Reagan Zibilski and Luke Haskew will try to go wire-to-wire at 108th Southwestern Amateur
After three rounds on the Cochise Course at Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., Louisiana State University’s Luke Haskew (Baton Rouge, La.) and University of Arkansas’s Reagan Zibilski (Springfield, Mo.) lead the Men’s and Women’s divisions respectively, headed into the final round of the 108th Southwestern Amateur. Both Haskew and Zibilski have led each of the first three...
Zibilski, Haskew maintain leads as defending champs lurk
Reagan Zibilski (Springfield, Mo.) of the University of Arkansas and Luke Haskew (Baton Rouge, La.) of LSU maintained their leads at the halfway point of the 108th Southwestern Men’s and Women’s Amateur championships, played on the Cochise Course at Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. Zibilski, who opened with an 8-under 64 on Wednesday, shot a 4-under...
Luke Haskew, Reagan Zibilski lead parade of red numbers at 108th Southwestern Amateur
The 108th Southwestern Men’s and Women’s Amateur championships teed off on a comfortable day at the Cochise Course at Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and red numbers soon filled the leaderboards. LSU rising sophomore Luke Haskew (Baton Rouge, La.) had a beautiful scorecard on Wednesday, tallying 11 3’s including an eagle on the par-5 12th...