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...

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 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...

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....

Standing on the 72nd tee at the Outlaw Course at Desert Mountain, Ching-Tzu Chen (Taiwan; University of Oregon) had already bogeyed three holes on the back nine and could sense that her lead was shrinking. Then, while waiting on the tee she decided to check the scoreboard to see that her lead was two shots. “I don’t...

The action at the 2021 Southwestern Amateur is nearing a close and the race to glory on both the Men’s and Women’s side is getting hotter than this week’s desert sun. James Leow and Ching-Tzu Chen each finished Friday with strong rounds to get into pole position for Saturday’s final round. Nicole Whiston of the University of Tennessee led...

A battle on both sides developed on Thursday at the second round of the Southwestern Amateur, even in the midst of an Excessive Heat Warning as temperatures rose to a scorching 116 degrees. Day two opened up with University of Tennessee junior Nicole Whiston maintaining her lead in the Women’s Championship, but she was met...

Men’s Championship The Tournament is seeing record temperatures, but the slight breeze helped cool the morning play for the Men today. The Men’s Championship produced many great shots and scores. The leaders, James Leow, and Christian Banke, both shot 63 (-8). James is an Arizona State junior from Singapore and Christian is a graduate student...

The Southwestern Amateur Championship, one of the country’s long-time leading events for top-ranked amateurs, returns June 16-19 on the Outlaw course at the Desert Mountain Club in Scottsdale, Ariz. While the championship has a 106-year history as a men’s tournament, a women’s division will be introduced this year – presenting a 72-hole stroke play event...

Congratulations to Colorado State’s A.J. Ott, who shot rounds of 70-70-71 at the Stillwater Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships as the low individual from the regional. Ott was the runner-up the last time the Southwestern Amateur was played, in 2019.

The 2021 Southwestern Men’s Amateur field will include an NCAA national champion, Keenen Bronnenberg of the University of Indianapolis. The Muncie, Ind., native led the Greyhounds to a 18-stroke win in the 54-hole stroke-play portion of the tournament, and became the school’s first-ever men’s golf individual national champion.