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...

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...

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...