The Southwestern Golf Association would like to congratulate Kurt Kitayama for his breakthrough victory in the PGA TOUR Arnold Palmer Invitational. Kitayama is the latest former Southwestern Amateur participant to win on tour; he played in the 2012 SW Am and finished in a tie for 12th.

Congratulations to 6 of our Women’s Division participants for being invited to the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur: Justice Bosio Monet Chun Ting-Hsuan Huang Ashley Menne Hsin-Yu (Cynthia) Lu Jennie Park The player list for the ANWA can be found here.

Max Homa took the next step in his PGA Tour career on Sunday, erasing a five-shot deficit on the final day to win the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego. Homa, who we got to know when he played in the Southwestern Amateur as an am, closed with a 6-under 66 to finish at 13-under...

John Ranslem, Executive Director, presents a check to his daughter-in-law, Leigh Ann Ranslem, who is a co-founder of the Boot Campaign, a charity that takes care of returning military personnel who need special help. The Boot Campaign is a Partner of the Southwestern Golf Association.

The SWGA would like to congratulate Leigh Chien, Monet Chun, Lauren Lehigh, and Brianna Navarrosa for making deep runs into the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Chambers Bay. Chun made it to the final while the other three made the quarterfinals. All played in the 2022 Southwestern Amateur, and all made the cut with Navarrosa the...

Congratulations to James Leow, the 2021 Southwestern Amateur champion who has won the 55th Pacific Coast Amateur at Columbia-Edgewater Country Club in Oregon. Leow broke open a tight three-way battle with Caleb Surratt and Sam Choi with a birdie on the final hole to seal the win. Leow, who is 25 years old, just finished...

J.T. Poston, the Southwestern Amateur champion in 2013, won his second career PGA Tour event, going wire-to-wire at the John Deere Classic and posting a 72-hole total of 21-under 263. A week after tying for second at the Travelers Championship, Poston continued his stellar play, becoming the first player on record to open consecutive Tour...

Images from the 2022 Southwestern Men and Women’s Amateur: Album 1 courtesy Conner Penfold of AmateurGolf.com, and Album 2 courtesy of Desert Mountain Golf Club

By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com On Thursday, it was just a personal best. By Saturday afternoon, it was a championship. Davis Bryant, fueled by a second-round 63, steadily climbed the leaderboard during the final 36 holes at Desert Mountain Club to capture the 107th Southwestern Amateur title. “It was a blast. That was my lowest round...

By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com After 105 years as a men’s tournament, the Southwestern Amateur added a women’s championship in 2021. On Saturday, Camille Boyd became the second Southwestern Women’s Amateur champion. In the inaugural event, the University of Oregon’s Ching-Tzu Chen battled unusually high temperatures and a difficult Cochise Course at Desert Mountain to put her name on the trophy with...

By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com Jaden Cantafio grabbed ahold of the Southwestern Amateur lead early in Friday morning’s round. The Washington State junior from Tustin, Calif. carded 34 on the front side at Desert Mountain’s Geronimo Course, while playing partner and 36-hole leader Gabe Salvanera made bogey or worse on five of his opening eight holes. Salvanera battled back,...

By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com Reinforcements had arrived. Not that Camille Boyd necessarily needed them, but they certainly couldn’t hurt. Her Husky teammate Hannah Elaimy missed Thursday’s cut, but stuck around Desert Mountain to join forces with Boyd as her caddie Friday morning. The University of Washington junior from Yorba Linda, Calif. fed off that comforting energy and carded 66...