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Yahoo
08-08-2025
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- Yahoo
10 must-watch players in the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur at Bandon Dunes
It's time for the most grueling women's amateur championship in the world. The 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur begins Monday at Bandon Dunes in Oregon, where 156 of the top female amateur in the world will battle it out for a chance to hoist the Robert Cox Trophy. The top 64 players after two rounds of stroke play will advance to match play, and whoever can win six matches will become a USGA champion. Here's a look at 10 must-watch players during the 2025 U.S. Women's Amateur: 10 players to watch at U.S. Women's Amateur 2025 Pimchompoo Chaisitprungruang Chaisitprungruang, better known as "Pinky," won the Women's Elite Amateur Series this summer, a collection of five of the top women's amateur events. She won the Southwestern Amateur and then split medalist honors after stroke play at the Women's Western Amateur. Aphrodite Deng Deng captured the title at the 2025 U.S. Girls' Junior at Atlanta Athletic Club, with the 15-year-old becoming the first Canadian champion of the U.S. Girls' Junior. Eila Galitsky Galitsky enrolled halfway through the season at South Carolina and became one of the best players in the country. She won her second college start and then didn't finish worse than T-11 in her next four events, including a T-4 at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. Kary Hollenbaugh Hollenbaugh, a rising senior at Ohio State, broke out this spring in her junior season, winning four times and becoming one of the best players in college golf. She made the Round of 16 at the Women's Western Amateur last month. Jasmine Koo Koo had a stellar freshman season at USC, winning four times and earning status as one of the best freshmen in college golf. She was also a member of the 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup team at Sunningdale and made the Round of 32 at the Women's Amateur Championship. Rianne Malixi Malixi had an incredible summer in 2024, winning the U.S. Women's Amateur at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Oklahoma, three weeks after winning the U.S. Girls' Junior in California. Malixi became the second player ever to win the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior in the same year, joining Eun Jeong Seong in 2016. Maria Jose Marin Marin won medalist honors at the 2024 U.S. Women's Amateur and then made a run before withdrawing due to injury in the semifinals. However, she bounced back strong, capturing the NCAA individual title in May as a sophomore at Arkansas. Farah O'Keefe O'Keefe's stellar summer includes a runner-up finish in the Women's British Amateur, where in the semifinals she was 4 down with five holes to play but came back and won the match. She also made the Round of 16 at the Women's Western Amateur. Kiara Romero Romero is the new top-ranked female amateur in the world after Lottie Woad turned pro. This year, she won the Big 10 individual championship and NCAA Gold Canyon Regional then posted the lowest final-round score by an amateur in U.S. Women's Open history with her closing 67 at Erin Hills. Asterisk Talley Talley's resume at 16 years old speaks for itself. Last year, she finished runner-up at the U.S. Women's Amateur and U.S. Girls' Junior, this on the heels of winning the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball. She defeated Lottie Woad in singles at the Curtis Cup. This year, she finished runner-up at the Augusta National Women's Amateur. This article originally appeared on Golfweek: U.S. Women's Amateur 2025: 10 players to watch at Bandon Dunes
USA Today
05-04-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
Eila Galitsky, 18, ties ANWA record with final round 66 at Augusta National
Eila Galitsky, 18, ties ANWA record with final round 66 at Augusta National What a finish for Eila Galitsky. The 18-year-old freshman at South Carolina had a stellar Saturday during the final round of the Augusta National Women's Amateur, shooting 6-under 66 to finish at 8 under for the week, giving her the clubhouse lead. The 66 she signed for in the final round tied the lowest round in ANWA history at Augusta National Golf Club, matching Bailey Shoemaker's round from 2024 that helped her finish runner-up to Lottie Woad. Last year, Shoemaker played with Galitsky when shooting 66 in the final round. Galitsky went birdie-birdie-eagle on Nos. 6-8 and turned in 5-under 31. On the back nine, Galitsky, from Thailand, bogeyed the 10th but made birdies on both par 5s, Nos. 13 and 15, then recorded three consecutive pars on her way to the house. When Galitsky finished her round, she was two shots behind Carla Bernat Escuder, who turned in 3 under and was leading by one shot at 11 under at the turn before a bogey at the 10th, and over Woad. Galitsky, who enrolled early this semester at South Carolina and beat Woad in her second collegiate start for her first win, had a putt for 65 on the 18th hole but missed it low. Nevertheless, a 66 is a stellar round at Augusta National.
USA Today
20-02-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
This mid-year enrollee beat the world's No. 1 amateur in a playoff for her first college victory
AI-assisted summary Eila Galitsky, an 18-year-old amateur golfer ranked 19th in the world, won her first college tournament at the Moon Golf Invitational. Galitsky, who enrolled early at the University of South Carolina, defeated the world's top-ranked amateur, Lottie Woad, with a birdie on the first playoff hole. Galitsky's victory marks a strong start to her college career, adding to her previous accomplishments, including low amateur honors at the 2023 Chevron Championship. Florida State University won the team title at the Moon Golf Invitational, with Wake Forest and South Carolina finishing second and third, respectively. If the name Eila Galitsky is familiar, it's probably from when she burst onto the golfing scene a couple years ago. The standout Thai junior won low amateur honors at the 2023 Chevron Championship and also won the Women's Amateur Asia-Pacific. Ranked 19th in the Amateur World Golf Ranking, she's one of the game's best amateurs at just 18 years old. When Galitsky decided to enroll a semester early at South Carolina, it gave coach Kalen Anderson three top-20 players. Louise Rydqvist and Hannah Darling are standout seniors, but Galitsky is perhaps the Gamecocks' secret weapon this spring. Galitsky won her first college event in only her second start Tuesday, capturing the Moon Golf Invitational at Suntree Country Club in Melbourne, Florida. She did so by draining a 35-foot birdie putt on the first playoff hole to knock off the No. 1 amateur in the world, Florida State junior Lottie Woad. Galitsky shot 3-under 69 in the final round to get into the playoff, and now she has her first college victory in tow. Woad hasn't finished outside of the top 10 in almost two years in any amateur competition, and the reigning Smyth Salver winner and Augusta National Women's Amateur champ is one of the favorites to win the Annika Award this spring, given to college golf's most outstanding player. But Galitsky, who was 3 under in her final nine holes, chased down Woad to force a playoff, and then she buried the long birdie putt to emphasize her arrival to college golf. Florida State won the team title, finishing at 2 under, the only team under par. Wake Forest and South Carolina rounded out the top three.
