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Cameron Jourdan

Meet the Americans competing in the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur field

The world’s best women’s amateur golfers are heading back down Magnolia Lane.

The fifth Augusta National Women’s Amateur tees off this week with 47 of the top 50 players in the women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking dreaming of hoisting the trophy on the 18th green.

The field of 72 – 36 Americans and 36 internationals – will play two rounds of stroke play at nearby Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 3, and Thursday, April 4, with the top 30 players advancing to the final round on Saturday, April 6. The entire field will play Augusta National for a practice round Friday, April 5.

Get to know the players in the field from the United States.

Meet the field: Internationals competing at ANWA

Amari Avery

Amari Avery hits her tee shot on hole five during the round of 64 of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 20
Hometown: Riverside, California
Education: USC, junior
ANWA history: Fourth appearance

Avery has advanced to the final round at Augusta National in each of the past two years, finishing T-4 in 2022 and T-29 in 2023. She has four top-12 finishes this season, including a win in the Leadership and Golf Invitational at Chambers Bay in Washington last fall and runner-up in the Pac-12 Preview in Hawaii in February.

Hailey Borja

Hailey Borja walks the hole 12 green during the quarterfinals of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 22
Hometown: Lake Forest, California
Education: Michigan, fifth-year
ANWA history: Second appearance

She advanced to the final round in her debut in 2022, finishing T-12. The four-time All-Big-Ten Conference selection has four top-10 finishes this season, including T-8 in both the Gators Invitational and Valspar Augusta Invitational in March. She was a U.S. Women’s Amateur semifinalist last year.

Phoebe Brinker

Duke’s Phoebe Brinker hits a tee shot during the first round of the 2023 Annika Intercollegiate. (Photo: Ben Adelberg/The Back of the Range)

Age: 22
Hometown: Wilmington, Delaware
Education: Duke, junior
ANWA history: Third appearance

Brinker has five top-25 finishes this season, including a win in the Annika Intercollegiate and T-5 in the Landfall Tradition last fall. She won the 2022 ACC individual championship.

Zoe Antoinette Campos

UCLA’s Zoe Campos won the Anuenue Spring Break Classic. (Photo: Ka’anapali Golf Courses)

Age: 21
Hometown: Valencia, California
Education: UCLA, junior
ANWA history: Third appearance

In the inaugural championship in 2019 at the age of 16, she shared the opening-round lead and shot a final-round 72 at Augusta National to finish T-5. Last December, she was among 12 players invited to participate in the 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup practice session in January at Seminole Golf Club in Florida.

Jensen Castle

Jensen Castle of the United States plays her stroke from the No. 12 tee during round one of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur at Champions Retreat Golf Club, Wednesday, March 29, 2023. (Photo: ANWA)

Age: 23
Hometown: Columbia, South Carolina
Education: Kentucky, fifth-year
ANWA history: Third appearance

The 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion has advanced to the final round at Augusta National in each of the past two years, finishing T-12 in 2022 and T-26 in 2023. Castle has three top-25 finishes this season, including T-15 in the Nexus Collegiate in the Bahamas in February.

Leigh Chien

Leigh Chien

Age: 18
Hometown: Irvine, California
Education: Signed with Stanford
ANWA history: First appearance

The four-time junior All-American will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. In 2016, she was a Drive, Chip and Putt National Finalist and finished fourth in the Girls 10-11 age division at Augusta National.

Gianna Clemente

Gianna Clemente smiles while walking to the hole eight tee box during the second round of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 15
Hometown: Estero, Florida
ANWA history: Second appearance

The 2023 Girls’ Junior PGA champion will make her second Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. She advanced to the final round in her debut last year at the age of 15, finishing T-14.

Hailee Cooper

Hailee Cooper

Age: 24
Hometown: Montgomery, Texas
Education: Texas/Texas A&M graduate
ANWA history: First appearance

The 24-year-old will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. She was scheduled to compete in the 2021 championship but had to withdraw after testing positive for COVID-19. In her final collegiate season, she helped Texas A&M reach match play in the 2023 NCAA Division I Women’s Golf Championships and had three top-10 finishes.

Anna Davis

Anna Davis of the United States of America at the 15th tee during practice round of the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship at Abu Dhabi Golf Club, United Arab Emirates on Monday, Oct. 23, 2023 (Copyright USGA/Steven Gibbons)

Age: 17
Hometown: Spring Valley, California
Education: Auburn, freshman
ANWA history: Third appearance, 2022 champion

The 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur champion will make her third appearance. Her final-round 69 at Augusta National two years ago included birdies at Nos. 2, 9, 12 and 13 and was enough for a one-stroke victory over Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Stone.

Sadie Englemann

Sadie Englemann of Stanford tees off on the 9th hole during round four of the NCAA Division 1 Women’s Golf Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club. (Photo: Alex Gould/The Republic)

Age: 21
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Education: Stanford, senior
ANWA history: Second appearance

She has four top-10 finishes this season, including a win in the East Lake Cup at Atlanta Athletic Club last fall, T-4 in the Pac-12 Preview in February and T-5 in the Juli Inkster at Meadow Club Invitational in March. In 2023, she earned Second Team All-America honors as a junior.

Maisie Filler

Florida’s Maisie Filler. (Photo: Florida Athletics)

Age: 22
Hometown: Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
Education: Florida, senior
ANWA history: Second appearance

Since last October, she has earned her first three collegiate wins, won the Jones/Doherty Women’s Amateur and went 3-0-0 in the Therese Hession Regional Challenge.

Laney Frye

Laney Frye smiles at the first hole after hitting her tee shot during the round of 64 of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 21
Hometown: Nicholasville, Kentucky
Education: Kentucky, senior
ANWA history: Second appearance

Last December, she was among 12 players invited to participate in the 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup practice session in January at Seminole Golf Club in Florida. She has four top-10 finishes this season for Kentucky, including runner-up in the Nexus Collegiate in February and fourth in the Tar Heel Invitational last fall.

Megha Ganne

Megha Ganne lines up her putt on hole 11 during the round of 64 of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 20
Hometown: Holmdel, New Jersey
Education: Stanford, sophomore
ANWA history: Fourth appearance

In 2023, she advanced to the final round and finished T-9. Before her debut in this championship in 2021, she was a four-time Drive, Chip and Putt National Finalist at Augusta National, competing in 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. She was runner-up in the Girls 12-13 division in 2017 and the Girls 14-15 division in 2019.

Melanie Green

Melanie Green

Age: 22
Hometown: Medina, New York
Education: South Florida, senior
ANWA history: First appearance

Since last September, she has eight top-six finishes in World Amateur Golf Ranking events. She won the FAU Paradise Invitational in February, won the MountainView Collegiate in March and finished runner-up in the Glass City Invitational, Hurricane Invitational and Patriot All-America Invitational late last year.

Rachel Heck

Rachel Heck smiles after putting on the hole 16 green during the semifinals of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Saturday, Aug. 12, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 22
Hometown: Memphis, Tennessee
Education: Stanford, senior
ANWA history: Third appearance

She has advanced to the final round twice, finishing T-3 in 2021 and T-27 in 2022. She started her 2023-2024 collegiate season last fall with a T-22 finish in the Carmel Cup at Pebble Beach. Also in 2023, she reached the semifinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur and represented the United States in the Pan American Games in Chile.

Jasmine Koo

Jasmine Koo won the 2023 Women’s Western Amateur. (Photo: Women’s Western Amateur)

Age: 18
Hometown: Cerritos, California
Education: Signed with USC
ANWA history: First appearance

The 2023 Women’s Western Amateur champion will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. Last July at White Eagle Golf Club in Illinois, she defeated Sadie Englemann in the final, 4&2, to join a list of champions that includes Patty Berg, Louise Suggs, Nancy Lopez, Beth Daniel, Stacy Lewis and Ariya Jutanugarn.

Rachel Kuehn

Wake Forest’s Rachel Kuehn hits a tee shot during the first round of the 2023 Annika Intercollegiate. (Photo: Ben Adelberg/The Back of the Range)

Age: 22
Hometown: Asheville, North Carolina
Education: Wake Forest, fifth-year
ANWA history: Fourth appearance

The four-time All-American at Wake Forest University will make her fourth Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. In 2022, she advanced to the final round at Augusta National and birdied four of her first seven holes to shoot 69 and finish seventh.

Emma McMyler

Emma McMyler looking through her scope during the second round of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash. on Sunday, May 14, 2023. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)

Age: 21
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Education: Duke, graduate student
ANWA history: First appearance

She has five top-25 finishes this season, including T-4 in the Windy City Collegiate Classic last fall and T-9 in Florida State Match Up in March. She also went 3-0-0 in the Old Barnwell Derby Match Play in South Carolina on March 25-26.

Ashley Menne

Arizona State’s Ashley Menne at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup. (Photo: Arnold Palmer Cup)

Age: 22
Hometown: Surprise, Arizona
Education: Arizona State, senior
ANWA history: Third appearance

She advanced to the final round in her debut in 2022, finishing 29th. In 2014, she participated in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals and finished T-3 in the Girls 12-13 age division at Augusta National.

Emilia Migliaccio

Emilia Migliaccio and Lauren Walsh on the first tee before their match Saturday at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup. (Photo: 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup)

Age: 24
Hometown: Cary, North Carolina
Education: Wake Forest, graduate
ANWA history: Fifth appearance

She will become the only golfer to play in every edition of the championship. Three years ago, she closed with a final-round 70 at Augusta National before losing in a playoff to Japan’s Tsubasa Kajitani. With a win, she would have been the second consecutive Wake Forest golfer to win following teammate Jennifer Kupcho’s victory in 2019.

Anna Morgan

Furman’s Anna Morgan. (Photo: Furman Athletics)

Age: 22
Hometown: Spartansburg, South Carolina
Education: Furman, fifth-year
ANWA history: Third appearance

The 2023 North and South Women’s Amateur champion will make her third Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. She advanced to the final round at Augusta National in her debut in 2022, finishing T-21.

Lauryn Nguyen

Northwestern’s Lauren Nguyen. (Photo: Northwestern Athletics)

Age: 20
Hometown: Seattle, Washington
Education: Northwestern, junior
ANWA history: First appearance

She has five top-15 finishes this season, including a win in the Windy City Collegiate Classic last fall. In 2022, she won the Pacific Northwest Women’s Amateur and finished third in the Washington State Women’s Amateur.

Farah O'Keefe

Farah O’Keefe hits a shot during the second round of the 2023 Annika Intercollegiate. (Photo: Ben Adelberg/The Back of the Range)

Age: 18
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Education: Texas, freshman
ANWA history: First appearance

She has three top-five finishes this season, including a win in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate in March and runner-up in the Windy City Collegiate Classic last fall. She also went 3-0-0 in the Therese Hession Regional Challenge in February.

Annabelle Pancake

Annabelle Pancake of the United States tees off on the 17th hole during the second round of the Dow Great Lakes Bay Invitational at Midland Country Club on July 20, 2023 in Midland, Michigan. (Photo by David Berding/Getty Images)

Age: 21
Hometown: Zionsville, Indiana
Education: Clemson, senior
ANWA history: First appearance

The 2023 Women’s Amateur Championship runner-up will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. Last June at Prince’s Golf Club in England, she advanced to the final before finishing runner-up to Germany’s Chiara Horder.

Ashleigh Park

Ashleigh Park

Age: 22
Hometown: Irvine, California
Education: Oregon, senior
ANWA history: First appearance

She has two top-20 finishes this season, including a win in the Molly Collegiate Invitational last fall. Also in 2023, she finished T-4 in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate and represented the United States in the Arnold Palmer Cup.

Catherine Park

Catherine Park of the USC Trojans plays a tee shot on the 17th hole during the NCAA women’s Golf Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club on May 22, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Age: 19
Hometown: Irvine, California
Education: USC, sophomore
ANWA history: First appearance

Last December, she was among 12 players invited to participate in the 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup practice session in January at Seminole Golf Club in Florida. She has five top-25 finishes this season, including T-4 in the Windy City Collegiate Classic last fall and T-9 in Florida State Match Up in March.

Jennie Park

Texas A&M’s Jennie Park at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup. (Photo: Arnold Palmer Cup)

Age: 23
Hometown: Dallas, Texas
Education: Texas A&M, fifth-year
ANWA history: Second appearance

She advanced to the final round at Augusta National in her debut last year, finishing T-9. She has four top-25 finishes this season, including runner-up in the East Lake Cup at Atlanta Athletic Club last fall.

Kiara Romero

Oregon’s Kiara Romero won the 2024 San Diego State Classic. (Photo: Oregon Women’s Golf)

Age: 17
Hometown: San Jose, California
Education: Oregon, freshman
ANWA history: First appearance

The 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. Last July at the United States Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Club in Colorado, she defeated the Philippines’ Rianne Mikhaela Malixi in the final, 1 up, to join a list of champions that includes Mickey Wright, Hollis Stacy, Nancy Lopez, Inbee Park, Lexi Thompson, Minjee Lee, Rose Zhang and Yana Wilson.

Amanda Sambach

Virginia’s Amanda Sambach hits a tee shot during the first round of the 2023 Annika Intercollegiate. (Photo: Ben Adelberg/The Back of the Range)

Age: 21
Hometown: Pinehurst, North Carolina
Education: Virginia, junior
ANWA history: Fourth appearance

Last year, she advanced to the final round for the first time, finishing T-14. In December, she was among 12 players invited to participate in the 2024 U.S. Curtis Cup practice session in January at Seminole Golf Club in Florida.

Megan Schofill

Megan Schofill kisses the Robert Cox Trophy on the iconic hole ten bridge after winning the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 22
Hometown: Monticello, Florida
Education: Auburn, fifth-year
ANWA history: Fourth appearance

The 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion will make her fourth Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. Last year, she advanced to the final round for the first time, finishing T-14. Last August at Bel-Air Country Club in California, she defeated Latanna Stone in the final, 4&3 , to join a list of champions that includes Alexa Stirling Fraser, Glenna Collett Vare, Patty Berg, Babe Zaharias, Juli Inkster, Morgan Pressel, Lydia Ko and Rose Zhang.

Bailey Shoemaker

Bailey Shoemaker. (Photo: USC Athletics)

Age: 19
Hometown: Dade City, Florida
Education: USC, freshman
ANWA history: Third appearance

In 2018, she was a Drive, Chip and Putt National Finalist and finished runner-up in the Girls 12-13 age division at Augusta National. She has five top-20 finishes this season, including T-7 in the Stanford Intercollegiate and 10th in the East Lake Cup at Atlanta Athletic Club last fall.

Latanna Stone

Latanna Stone hits her tee shot on hole 31 during the first round of stroke play of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 22
Hometown: Riverview, Florida
Education: LSU, fifth-year
ANWA history: Third appearance

The 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur runner-up will make her third Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. She has advanced to the final round in each of the past two years, twice shooting 72 to finish runner-up to Anna Davis in 2022 and eighth in 2023.

Asterisk Talley

Asterisk Talley hits an approach shot on hole eight during the round of 32 at the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior at United States Air Force Academy Eisenhower Golf Club (Blue Course) in Colorado Springs, Colorado, on Thursday, July 20, 2023. (Kathryn Riley/USGA)

Age: 15
Hometown: Chowchilla, California
ANWA history: First appearance

The two-time junior All-American will make her Augusta National Women’s Amateur debut. Talley is a two-time Drive, Chip and Putt National Finalist, finishing runner-up in the Girls 7-9 age division in 2018 and fifth in the Girls 12-13 age division in 2022 at Augusta National. She has three top-15 finishes in 2024, including a six-stroke victory in the Girls’ Junior Invitational at Sage Valley in South Carolina in March.

Casey Weidenfeld

Casey Weidenfeld

Age: 21
Hometown: Pembroke Pines, Florida
Education: Auburn, sophomore
ANWA history: First appearance

She has three top-six finishes this season, including runner-up in both the Mason Rudolph Women’s Championship and Tar Heel Invitational last fall. Also in 2023, she reached the quarterfinals of the Women’s Western Amateur, the Round of 16 in the North and South Women’s Amateur and the Round of 32 in the U.S. Women’s Amateur.

Yana Wilson

Yana Wilson watches her tee shot on hole nine during the round of 16 of the 2023 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif. on Thursday, Aug. 10, 2023. (James Gilbert/USGA)

Age: 17
Hometown: Henderson, Nevada
Education: Signed with Oregon
ANWA history: Third appearance

The 2023 AJGA Girls Player of the Year and University of Oregon commit will make her third Augusta National Women’s Amateur appearance. After hitting the opening tee shot to start last year’s championship, she advanced to the final round and finished T-26.

Kelly Xu

Kelly Xu of the Stanford Cardinal plays her second shot on the 15th hole during the NCAA Championships at Grayhawk Golf Club on May 22, 2023 in Scottsdale, Arizona. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images)

Age: 19
Hometown: Claremont, California
Education: Stanford, sophomore
ANWA history: Second appearance

In 2014, she was the Girls 7-9 champion in the inaugural Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals at Augusta National. She was also a national finalist in 2015. She has four top-15 finishes this season, including third in the Stanford Intercollegiate and sixth in the Jackson T. Stephens Cup last fall.

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