2025 U.S. Women's Amateur highlights: 64 and 63 seed advance to quarterfinals
BANDON, Ore. — Sixteen matches down, eight to go on Thursday at the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur.
The Round of 32 kicked things off Thursday morning, and the 16 winners are now back on the course battling it out in the Round of 16. When the day is complete, only eight will be left standing with a chance to win the Robert Cox Trophy.
In the Round of 32, the 64 seed, Arianna Lau, continued her run of strong play with a victory over Golf Channel's Emilia Doran. World No. 1 Kiara Romero had a dominant 6-and-5 victory.
Follow the Round of 16 at the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur on Thursday for live updates, highlights, leaderboard, scores and more.
U.S. Women's Amateur live leaderboard
Click here to follow scores from the U.S. Women's Amateur.
One match to go
Rayee Feng and Taylor Kehoe are on the 22nd hole trying to determine who will face off against Ella Scaysbrook in the quarterfinals.
Shocking miss
Pressure makes diamonds, but it also brings nerves. That's what happened for Brooke Biermann on the 18th hole with a 3 footer to win her match. She missed, and the match is in extra holes now.
Both lowest seeds advance
A historic quarterfinal is coming at Bandon Dunes, as Australian Ella Scaysbrook, the 63 seed, beats world No. 10 Jasmine Koo 4 and 3 and is heading to the quarterfinals in her first U.S. Women's Amateur.
64 seed advances
The first quarterfinalist has punched her ticket to Friday. 64 seed Arianna Lau knocks off Carolina Lopez-Chacarra to advance. A 5-and-4 victory over the 15th-ranked amateur in the world.
Lower seeds dominating
A dominant showing thus far from the 63 and 64 seeds. Arianna Lau, the 64 seed, is 5 up with six holes to play. Ella Scaysbrook, the 63, is 3 up at the turn. Could the last two players in the bracket make the quarters? It's looking like it.
Carolina Lopez-Chacarra calls for medical
Down 4 thru 8 holes in her match, Carolina Lopez-Chacarra has called for medical. She has been dealing with a foot issue all week relating to her breaking in new shoes this week.
64 seed going to make a run?
Arianna Lau is on a heater. The 64 seed is 3 up thru 6 holes on Carolina Lopez-Chacarra. An impressive run may be even better soon.
Stats from the Round of 16
Andie Smith knocks off Catherine Rao
A Round of 32 update, but the Round of 16 is now set. Andie Smith knocks out Catherine Rao in 23 holes. It's an upset to a degree, as Rao made the quarterfinals each of the past three seasons. However, the streak is over.
Round of 16 underway
There's still a Round of 32 matchup going on (on the 23rd hole) but the Round of 16 is underway with the first match, with Arianna Lau and Carolina Lopez-Chacarra tying the first hole.
U.S. Women's Amateur Round of 16 tee times
All times ET, will be updated as Round of 32 matches finish
4:10 p.m.: No. 64 Arianna Lau vs. No. 17 Carolina Lopez-Chacarra
4:40 p.m.: No. 8 Cindy Hsu vs. No. 41 Brooke Biermann
4:30 p.m.: No. 4 Lyla Louderbaugh vs. No. 13 Katelyn Kong
5:40 p.m.: No. 37 Andie Smith vs. No. 12 Kiara Romero
4:50 p.m.: No. 63 Ella Scaysbrook vs. No. 47 Jasmine Koo
5:10 p.m.: No. 26 Rayee Fang vs. No. 23 Taylor Kehoe
5:20 p.m. No. 3 Eila Galitsky vs. No. 19 Natalie Yen
5:30 p.m.: No. 38 Kary Hollenbaugh vs. No. 11 Megha Ganne
U.S. Women's Amateur how to watch, TV information
All times ET
Thursday, Aug. 7: Round of 16, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (Golf Channel)
Friday, Aug. 8: Quarterfinals, 6 p.m.-9 p.m. (Golf Channel)
Saturday, Aug. 9: Semifinals, 3-6 p.m. (Golf Channel)
Sunday, Aug. 10: Championship Match (Afternoon 18), 7 p.m.-10 p.m. (Golf Channel)
U.S. Women's Amateur tickets
Fans do not need a ticket to attend the U.S. Women's Amateur.
What the winner of U.S. Women's Amateur receives
A gold medal and custody of the Robert Cox Trophy for one year
Exemption from qualifying for the 2026 U.S. Women's Open at The Riviera Country Club, in Pacific Palisades, California
Exemption from qualifying for the next 10 U.S. Women's Amateurs, if eligible
Invitation to the 2026 Augusta National Women's Amateur
Likely exemptions into the Chevron Championship, AIG Women's Open and Amundi Evian Championship
Name engraved on 2025 USGA Champions' plaque that will reside in the USGA Museum's Hall of Champions in Liberty Corner, New Jersey
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: U.S. Women's Amateur 2025 live updates: Round of 16 scores, highlights
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Yahoo
3 minutes ago
- Yahoo
Scheffler rallies to win BMW for 5th PGA Tour victory of year. Rahm takes LIV points title
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler erased a four-shot deficit in five holes and then delivered a haymaker on the daunting par-3 17th by chipping in from 82 feet for birdie that carried him to victory Sunday in the BMW Championship for his fifth PGA Tour title of the year. Scheffler closed with a 3-under 67 for a two-shot victory and became the first player since Tiger Woods (2006-07) to win at least five times on the PGA Tour in consecutive years. Robert MacIntyre didn't make a birdie until the 16th hole but stayed in the game after losing his big lead, mostly when Scheffler began missing short putts. MacIntyre pulled within one shot of the lead going to the 17th, the toughest hole at Caves Valley, with a back right pin on a crispy green that sloped to the right toward the water. Scheffler went just left in the rough, the ball sitting up nicely but the shot still scary. He landed it some 60 feet short and watched it trickle, and then roll, and then slow again until it dropped into the cup. MacIntyre could only look at him and stare at the world's No. 1 player making other-worldly shots in another extraordinary season. MacIntyre, who made 18 birdies in the first 45 holes of the tournament, made only two over the last 27 holes. He shot 73. It's not over for Scheffler, who leads the 30 players who advanced to the Tour Championship at East Lake with a chance to become the first repeat FedEx Cup champion since the series began in 2007. All 30 players at East Lake can win the $10 million first-place check. LIV Golf League WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Jon Rahm successfully defended his LIV Golf season points title without winning an event all year, closing with an 11-under 60 before losing a playoff to Sebastian Munoz on the first extra hole in the Indianapolis event. Munoz won two days after becoming the first player to shoot 59 with a double bogey. The Colombian player —with Rahm hitting balls on driving range — birdied the final two holes in regulation for a 65 to match Rahm at 22 under at The Club at Chatham Hills. Rahm also lost on the first extra hole last week outside Chicago, falling to Dean Burmester in a three-way playoff that included Josele Ballester. On Sunday, Munoz beat the Spanish star won with a birdie on the par-4 18th in the playoff. Rahm took the season points title from Joaquin Niemann, a five-time winner this season. Niemann shot a 66 to tie for fourth at 17 under, his first top-10 finish of the year that he didn't win. Munoz led Torque GC to the team event championship. Torque finished at 64 under to break the LIV record of 53 under. LPGA Tour PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Akie Iwai joined twin sister Chisato as a rookie LPGA Tour winner at Columbia Edgewater, closing with a 6-under 66 for a four-stroke victory in The Standard Portland Classic. Akie Iwai capped the bogey-free round with birdies on the final two holes, running in an 18-footer on the last before Chisato rushed on the green and sprayed her with champagne. The 23-year-old Japanese player broke through in her first season on the LPGA Tour after winning six times on the JLPGA Tour. She had second-place finishes in Thailand in February and Los Angeles in April, then watched her sister win at Mayakoba in May in Mexico. On Sunday, Chisato Iwai shot a 64 to tie for third, five strokes back. The winner finished at 24-under 264 on the tree-lined course. She opened with consecutive 67s, then shot a 64 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round. American Gurleen Kaur was a career-best second, closing with a 65. Amateur Kiara Romero shot a 64 to tie for seventh at 16 under in her first tour start. The University of Oregon player won the 2023 U.S. Girls' Junior and 2025 Big Ten title. European Tour COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Marco Penge of England tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole for a 4-under 67 to win the Danish Golf Championship by one shot over Rasmus Hojgaard, who missed a chance to climb into the automatic qualifying position for the Ryder Cup. Hojgaard looked on course for the title in his home country when he powered into a four-shot lead midway through his front nine, only to drop four strokes in four holes from No. 10 and allow Penge to take the lead. Trailing by two on the par-5 closing hole at Furesø Golf Klub, Hojgaard made a 10-foot eagle. Penge missed the green to the left, chipped to 3 feet and made the birdie putt for his second European tour title this year. Hojgaard (69) was the runner-up and will remain outside the six automatic qualifying spots, just behind No. 6 Sepp Straka, in the race to get into Europe's team. Qualifying ends next week at the British Masters. PGA Tour Champions CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Richard Green of Australia won the Rogers Charity Classic for his first PGA Tour Champions title, birdieing the par-5 18th hole for a 5-under 65 and a one-stroke victory. Green held off Ricardo Gonzalez, the Argentine player who birdied the final two holes at Canyon Meadows for a 65 of his own. The 54-year-old Green won in his 91st start on the 50-and-over tour. He finished at 18-under 192 after opening with rounds of 65 and 62. Charles Schwab Cup leader Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, the second-round leader after consecutive rounds of 63, had a 68 to finish third at 16 under. He leads the tour with four victories this season. Korn Ferry Tour BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emilio Gonzalez of Mexico won the Albertsons Boise Open for his first Korn Ferry Tour title, shooting a 10-under 61 for a one-stroke victory over Jeffrey Kang. Gonzalez played a late three-hole stretch in 4 under with a birdie on the par-4 15th, an eagle on the par-5 16th and a birdie on the par-3 17th. He finished at 22-under 262 at Hillcrest Country Club. Kang birdied two of the last three in a 65. Other tours Kazuki Higa closed with a 7-under 65 and won the ISPS Handa Explosion in the Summer with an eagle on the second playoff hole to defeat Ren Yonezawa, who shot 64. Higa won for the first time in three years and now has seven titles on the Japan Golf Tour. ... David Law closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Vierumaki Finnish Challenge, his second win of the season on Europe's Challenge Tour. The victory move him to the top of the points list. ... Cory Crawford shot 7-under 65 and won by two shots at the PNG Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia. ... Herman Loubser closed with a 3-under 69 and defeated Yurav Premlall in the Vodacom Origins of Golf on the Sunshine Tour. ... Asuka Kashiwabara closed with a 4-under 68 for a one-shot victory over Sayaka Teraoka in the NEC Karuizawa 72 on the Japan LPGA. ... Jungmin Hong shot 7-under 65 to complete a nine-shot victory in the Mediheal Hankookilbo Championship on the Korea LPGA. ___ AP golf:
San Francisco Chronicle
4 minutes ago
- San Francisco Chronicle
Scheffler rallies to win BMW for 5th PGA Tour victory of year. Rahm takes LIV points title
OWINGS MILLS, Md. (AP) — Scottie Scheffler erased a four-shot deficit in five holes and then delivered a haymaker on the daunting par-3 17th by chipping in from 82 feet for birdie that carried him to victory Sunday in the BMW Championship for his fifth PGA Tour title of the year. Scheffler closed with a 3-under 67 for a two-shot victory and became the first player since Tiger Woods (2006-07) to win at least five times on the PGA Tour in consecutive years. Robert MacIntyre didn't make a birdie until the 16th hole but stayed in the game after losing his big lead, mostly when Scheffler began missing short putts. MacIntyre pulled within one shot of the lead going to the 17th, the toughest hole at Caves Valley, with a back right pin on a crispy green that sloped to the right toward the water. Scheffler went just left in the rough, the ball sitting up nicely but the shot still scary. He landed it some 60 feet short and watched it trickle, and then roll, and then slow again until it dropped into the cup. MacIntyre could only look at him and stare at the world's No. 1 player making other-worldly shots in another extraordinary season. MacIntyre, who made 18 birdies in the first 45 holes of the tournament, made only two over the last 27 holes. He shot 73. It's not over for Scheffler, who leads the 30 players who advanced to the Tour Championship at East Lake with a chance to become the first repeat FedEx Cup champion since the series began in 2007. All 30 players at East Lake can win the $10 million first-place check. LIV Golf League WESTFIELD, Ind. (AP) — Jon Rahm successfully defended his LIV Golf season points title without winning an event all year, closing with an 11-under 60 before losing a playoff to Sebastian Munoz on the first extra hole in the Indianapolis event. Munoz won two days after becoming the first player to shoot 59 with a double bogey. The Colombian player —with Rahm hitting balls on driving range — birdied the final two holes in regulation for a 65 to match Rahm at 22 under at The Club at Chatham Hills. Rahm also lost on the first extra hole last week outside Chicago, falling to Dean Burmester in a three-way playoff that included Josele Ballester. On Sunday, Munoz beat the Spanish star won with a birdie on the par-4 18th in the playoff. Rahm took the season points title from Joaquin Niemann, a five-time winner this season. Niemann shot a 66 to tie for fourth at 17 under, his first top-10 finish of the year that he didn't win. Munoz led Torque GC to the team event championship. Torque finished at 64 under to break the LIV record of 53 under. LPGA Tour Akie Iwai capped the bogey-free round with birdies on the final two holes, running in an 18-footer on the last before Chisato rushed on the green and sprayed her with champagne. The 23-year-old Japanese player broke through in her first season on the LPGA Tour after winning six times on the JLPGA Tour. She had second-place finishes in Thailand in February and Los Angeles in April, then watched her sister win at Mayakoba in May in Mexico. On Sunday, Chisato Iwai shot a 64 to tie for third, five strokes back. The winner finished at 24-under 264 on the tree-lined course. She opened with consecutive 67s, then shot a 64 on Saturday to take a two-stroke lead into the final round. American Gurleen Kaur was a career-best second, closing with a 65. Amateur Kiara Romero shot a 64 to tie for seventh at 16 under in her first tour start. The University of Oregon player won the 2023 U.S. Girls' Junior and 2025 Big Ten title. European Tour COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Marco Penge of England tapped in for birdie at the 18th hole for a 4-under 67 to win the Danish Golf Championship by one shot over Rasmus Hojgaard, who missed a chance to climb into the automatic qualifying position for the Ryder Cup. Hojgaard looked on course for the title in his home country when he powered into a four-shot lead midway through his front nine, only to drop four strokes in four holes from No. 10 and allow Penge to take the lead. Trailing by two on the par-5 closing hole at Furesø Golf Klub, Hojgaard made a 10-foot eagle. Penge missed the green to the left, chipped to 3 feet and made the birdie putt for his second European tour title this year. Hojgaard (69) was the runner-up and will remain outside the six automatic qualifying spots, just behind No. 6 Sepp Straka, in the race to get into Europe's team. Qualifying ends next week at the British Masters. PGA Tour Champions CALGARY, Alberta (AP) — Richard Green of Australia won the Rogers Charity Classic for his first PGA Tour Champions title, birdieing the par-5 18th hole for a 5-under 65 and a one-stroke victory. Green held off Ricardo Gonzalez, the Argentine player who birdied the final two holes at Canyon Meadows for a 65 of his own. The 54-year-old Green won in his 91st start on the 50-and-over tour. He finished at 18-under 192 after opening with rounds of 65 and 62. Charles Schwab Cup leader Miguel Angel Jimenez of Spain, the second-round leader after consecutive rounds of 63, had a 68 to finish third at 16 under. He leads the tour with four victories this season. Korn Ferry Tour BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Emilio Gonzalez of Mexico won the Albertsons Boise Open for his first Korn Ferry Tour title and PGA Tour next season, shooting a 10-under 61 for a one-stroke victory over Jeffrey Kang. Gonzalez jumped to fourth on the Korn Ferry Tour points list to wrap up the PGA Tour card. He finished at 22-under 262 at Hillcrest Country Club, playing a late three-hole stretch in 4 under with a birdie on the par-4 15th, an eagle on the par-5 16th and a birdie on the par-3 17th. Kang birdied two of the last three in a 65. Other tours Erika Hara of Japan won the Wildhorse Ladies Golf Classic in Pendleton, Oregon, for her Epson Tour title. Hara closed with an 8-under 64 to finish at 18 under for a three-stroke margin. She won the Japan Women's Open in 2020 and 2023. ... Kazuki Higa closed with a 7-under 65 and won the ISPS Handa Explosion in the Summer with an eagle on the second playoff hole to defeat Ren Yonezawa, who shot 64. Higa won for the first time in three years and now has seven titles on the Japan Golf Tour. ... David Law closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Vierumaki Finnish Challenge, his second win of the season on Europe's Challenge Tour. The victory move him to the top of the points list. ... Cory Crawford shot 7-under 65 and won by two shots at the PNG Open on the PGA Tour of Australasia. ... Herman Loubser closed with a 3-under 69 and defeated Yurav Premlall in the Vodacom Origins of Golf on the Sunshine Tour. ... Asuka Kashiwabara closed with a 4-under 68 for a one-shot victory over Sayaka Teraoka in the NEC Karuizawa 72 on the Japan LPGA. ... Jungmin Hong shot 7-under 65 to complete a nine-shot victory in the Mediheal Hankookilbo Championship on the Korea LPGA.
Yahoo
2 hours ago
- Yahoo
Rahm edges Niemann for LIV season title as Munoz wins at Indy
Spain's Jon Rahm captured his second consecutive LIV Golf season crown on Sunday, shooting an 11-under par 60 before losing a playoff to Colombia's Sebastian Munoz at LIV Golf Indianapolis. Munoz birdied the first playoff hole to beat Rahm for the Indy title after both finished on 22-under 191 through all 54 holes at Chatham Hills in the Saudi-backed series' last individual event of the year. "First time I've ever beat him, so really proud of that and happy I got to go home with the trophy," Munoz said. But Rahm's result, a second playoff loss in as many weeks, was enough to edge Chile's Joaquin Niemann in the season points chase for the second year in a row, delivering heartbreak on the campaign's last day as he did in 2024. "Still slightly bittersweet," Rahm said. "I know I'm supposed to be happy. It's a great moment. But it just doesn't feel great to finish the year losing two playoffs. "I'm sure over time I'll get over that and I really appreciate what I've done this year." Rahm won the season title without winning any LIV event while Niemann took titles this year in Adelaide, Singapore, Mexico City, Virginia and Britain. "It sucks," Niemann said. "I started playing my best golf on the back nine, which I'm proud of, but at the end of the day, the putts didn't drop, and it wasn't enough. It's kind of hard to swallow." Rahm, a Masters and US Open champion, wasn't overjoyed about a season crown without a win all year. "To be able to win the season without actually winning a tournament, I know eventually I'll be proud of that. Right now it's slightly more something I'm going to suffer over a little bit more, and it may never be replicated," Rahm said. "You need a lot of coincidences to go on exactly with the year Joaquín had. He's won five times. He has played incredible golf. One could argue he was probably the more deserving guy to win this. But we have the points system we have and somehow, I don't know how, I managed to pull through and get it done." Rahm captured $18 million for claiming the season crown with Niemann taking $8 million for his runner-up season finish after sharing fourth at Indy on 196 with a closing 66. Munoz, who battled two-time major winner Dustin Johnson for the lead most of the day, birdied the 17th and 18th holes in regulation and the 18th again in the playoff to win his first title since the 2019 PGA Tour Sanderson Farms Championship. "We came today to try and take care of business," Munoz said. "Of course Jon shot 10-under so you go from one legend to another one. It was pretty cool. Awesome experience. Making birdie two times in a row (at 18), it's undescribable." Munoz battled for the victory after firing a 59 on Friday, only the third sub-60 round in LIV history. "I feel really proud of myself," he said. "It has been a long time coming, six years since my last win, and it's awesome right now." A severe overnight storm toppled trees and swamped fairways, delaying the shotgun start by 55 minutes, with players using lift, clean and place rules on the rain-softened course. - Englishmen avoid drop - England's Lee Westwood and Ian Poulter avoided being dumped from LIV for 2026, finishing in the season's top 48 in points to escape the relegation zone. Westwood birdied four of his first five holes while Poulter birdied four of his last five to avoid the drop, each finishing on 201. Sweden's Henrik Stenson was dropped, however, after missing a birdie putt at the 18th that would have seen him avoid relegation at Poulter's expense. Niemann's Torque won the Indy team title, it's first triumph since 2023, but Rahm's Legion XIII holds the top seeding for next week's LIV Team Championship. js/bb
