Elise Lee and Jared Abercrombie are the 111th Southwestern Amateur champions
On a sunny final day at Desert Mountain, Elise Lee (Irvine, Calif.) and Jared Abercrombie (Simi Valley, Calif.) were able to hold off their challengers and capture Southwestern Amateur titles with matching 14-under-par winning scores. Abercrombie, a Santa Clara University transfer, dueled all day with Miles Kuhl of Boulder, Colo., before pulling away late with...
Lee, Abercrombie make their move to take 54-hole leads at Desert Mountain
With temperatures held in check by cloud cover and even a few light desert sprinkles, “moving day” lived up to its name at the 111th Southwestern Amateur Championship. After the cut fell on Thursday, 77 players teed it up at Desert Mountain’s Outlaw Course, with 38 men and 39 women battling for position before heading into Saturday’s final round....
Grace Anderson takes halfway lead; Abercrombie, Arone top men’s division
Grace Anderson (Burlington, Ont. Canada) shot a two-under 70 to take a one-shot lead after the second round of the Southwestern Amateur at Desert Mountain’s Outlaw Course in Scottsdale, Ariz. The rising Pepperdine University junior began the day tied for the lead at five under, only to fall back with back-to-back bogeys on her opening...
RJ Arone opens with 9-under 63; three women share lead at 5 under
Desert Mountain welcomed an international field of 144 golfers to their beautiful Outlaw Course for the 111th Southwestern Amateur Championship. 72 men and 72 women teed off in the first round on Wednesday under sunny skies and light breezes. Playing in the morning wave, three women tied for the lead with 5-under 67s, including Agustina...
Inside the Field: 2026 Southwestern Men’s and Women’s Amateur Championships
The SWGA welcomes 72 men and 72 women to Desert Mountain for the 111th Southwestern Amateur Championship. The 2026 field will represent 28 U.S. states and 18 countries. In all, 22 men and 28 women contestants have won a WAGR-ranked tournament in the past year. Here is a breakdown of the field for the 2026...
A note about the 2026 Southwestern Amateur and Arizona Amateur championships
A note to male golfers in Arizona: there will be a one-time conflict between the Southwestern Amateur and the Arizona (Men’s) Amateur Championship in 2026. The SW Am is scheduled for June 10-13 at Desert Mountain, while the AZ Am is set for June 8-13 at Tucson Country Club. This conflict was unavoidable and will...
2022 SW Women’s Amateur champion Camille Boyd earns LPGA Tour status
The SWGA would like to congratulate Camille Boyd for earning LPGA Tour status in 2026. The 2022 Southwestern Amateur champion finished tied for 10th in LPGA Tour Final Qualifying at RTJ at Magnolia Grove in Mobile, Alabama, with rounds of 68-68-70-72 (-8). Boyd was an Epson Tour rookie in 2025, finishing T21 in the final...
SW Am champ Pinky Chaisilprungruang wins the Women’s Elite Amateur Cup
𝐄𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐄 𝐀𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐄𝐔𝐑 𝐂𝐔𝐏 🏆 Pinky was recognized at @CharlotteFTBL tonight for winning the @eliteamseries this summer 🤙‼️#GoldStandard ⛏️ pic.twitter.com/02G7zk3Bto — Charlotte Women's Golf (@CharlotteWGolf) September 14, 2025 Pimchompoo “Pinky” Chaisilprungruang, who won the Southwestern Women’s Amateur earlier this summer, has captured the Women’s Elite Amateur Cup as the leading point earner in the Women’s Elite...
Grewal, Chaisilprungruang close strong to win 110th Southwestern Amateur titles
Incoming University of Kansas sophomore Hartej Grewal (Pleasanton, Calif.) and rising University of North Carolina Charlotte sophomore Pimchompoo “Pinky” Chaisilpringruang (Thailand) are heading home as champions of the 110th Southwestern Amateur. Both entered the final round with slim leads and outlasted their challengers to secure the win at Desert Mountain Club – Outlaw Course. Grewal,...
Leaderboards flip as Grewal and Chaisilprungruang take leads into the final round
Moving day at the 110th Southwestern Amateur lived up to its name on Friday, with new leaders emerging in both the men’s and women’s divisions. On the women’s side, the Pimchompoo Chaisilpringruang of Thailand and the University of North Carolina Charlotte fired a 3-under round to take a two-shot lead heading into the final day....
Braidech takes solo lead; Eidhagen Harrouch pulls away as the cut falls
With a 4-under 68, Camden Braidech of the University of Tennessee Chattanooga moved to 9 under and into the solo lead at the halfway point of 110th Southwestern Amateur Championship. In the women’s division, Maria Eidhagen Harrouch of the University of Georgia extended her lead to five shots, gutting out a 2-under 70 in a...
Eidhagen Harrouch leads women’s division with 64; Three men tied at 67 in round one
Maria Eidhagen Harrouch (-8), a recent graduate transfer to the University of Georgia, holds a two-shot lead after the opening round of the 110th Southwestern Amateur, while Camden Braidech, Luke Haskew and Charlie Palmer (-5) co-lead the men’s division at Desert Mountain Club’s Outlaw Course. Eidhagen Harrouch had a goal in mind coming into today:...