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...

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.

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...

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 (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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...