By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com Gabe Salvanera made seven birdies in his final nine holes, carding 30 on the front side after beginning his day on the back. It rounded out a second-round 63 at Desert Mountain’s Geronimo Course and sent him into the final two rounds of the Southwestern Amateur with a one-shot lead. “Today I...

By Conner Penfold AmateurGolf.com Grace Summerhays made eight birdies during the opening round of the Southwestern Women’s Amateur, carding a pair of 32s at Desert Mountain’s Geronimo Course to lead the field by four over Washington junior Camille Boyd and Ting-Hsuan Huang. Summerhays, the younger sister of Sun Devil men’s golfer Preston Summerhays and daughter of teaching...

“Life’s good” says Max Homa, who has just picked up his 4th PGA Tour victory at the Wells Fargo Championship. The win is his second at this event, although at two different venues as this year’s tournament was moved to TPC Potomac near Washington, DC as Quail Hollow in Charlotte prepares to host the Presidents...

Sahith Theegala, who we got to know during his two Southwestern Amateur appearances in 2015 and 2016, was the star of the WM Phoenix Open, taking advantage of a sponsor exemption and leading the tournament for three days before finishing one shot back in a tie for third. Congrats to Sahith for his performance and...

Congratulations to Christian Banke for his victory in the Arizona Intercollegiate in Tucson. Christian is a regular high finisher in the Southwestern Amateur, with his highest finish coming in last year’s tournament with a tie for third place. The University of Arizona senior made a three-foot par putt on the final hole at Tucson Country...

The Ladies National Golf Association (LNGA) has announced that registration is now open for the LNGA Mid-Amateur and Senior Amateur Championship, which will be played April 26-28, 2022 at Tubac Golf Resort & Spa in Tubac, Arizona. The LNGA is a partner association to the SWGA, and information about their championships can be found at...

The SWGA would like to congratulate Finigan Tilly on his victory in the prestigious South Beach International Amateur in Miami, Fla. The Cal-Berkeley graduate student and frequent participant in the Southwestern Amateur became the first wire-to-wire winner in the tournament’s history. >> Read more

The Southwestern Women’s Amateur has been included on AmateurGolf.com’s Best New Tournaments of 2021. For the first 105 years, the Southwestern Amateur was a men’s-only event that attracted some of the nation’s finest amateur players. In 2021, after a one-year pandemic delay, the tournament took a major step to help expand the game by introducing...

Just over six years after his debut in the Southwestern Amateur, Collin Morikawa has ascended to the top of the golf world, winning two majors, becoming a Ryder Cup star, and becoming the first American to win the Race to Dubai as the No. 1 player on the European Tour. The 24-year-old Californian demonstrated patience...

Congratulations to three former Southwestern Amateur participants for obtaining their PGA tour cards for next season. Sahith Theegala (Pepperdine) played in 2015 and 2016. Max McGreevy (Oklahoma) played in 2013 and 2014, finishing as the runner-up. Brandon Wu (Stanford) played in 2015 and 2016. Good luck to all of them!

The Southwestern Golf Association would like to congratulate Collin Morikawa for winning the 2021 British Open at Royal St. George’s in England, his second major championship in just over two years as a professional. We enjoyed getting to know the future “Champion Golfer of the Year” in 2015 when he first played in the Southwestern...

In the 106th year of the Southwestern Amateur, James Leow, an Arizona State junior from Singapore, put in a commanding performance to earn a three-shot win at the Outlaw Course at Desert Mountain in Scottsdale, Ariz. Leow’s win was a long time in the making, after a surgery in December sidelined him during the collegiate spring....