Earlier than the Masters begins subsequent week, Augusta Nationwide will host the seventh Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Newbie, a event that continues to develop as some of the prestigious beginner tournaments of the yr.
This yr, 48 of the highest 50 girls’s amateurs are scheduled to compete within the occasion, which is able to embrace two rounds at close by Champions Retreat, adopted by a observe spherical at Augusta Nationwide and a last spherical on Saturday.
This time we are going to introduce 5 gamers to look at.
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Final yr’s event was received by Spain’s Carla Martín Escuda, however nobody can neglect Tully’s efficiency within the last spherical. She eagled the primary gap and went on to shoot a 68, dropping by one stroke to Martin Escuder.
Competing on this occasion for the third time, the 17-year-old is at the moment firmly within the high 10 of the World Newbie Rankings and has all of the makings of an ANWA winner. Her size off the tee was unbelievable and she or he demonstrated her skill to navigate Augusta’s slopes and greens with a wealth of information. It could be a shock if Talley have been to overlook out on competition within the last spherical.
chiara romero
There is a motive she’s the primary participant on the earth. Oregon Duck has been the top-ranked beginner since final July, successful 5 video games and in addition successful the McCormack Medal final yr.
This might be Romero’s third begin in ANWA. She missed the reduce in 2024 and completed T-7 final yr, however has solely improved since then. She is already a junior who appears prepared to show professional quickly. She shot a last spherical 67 finally yr’s U.S. Girls’s Open and can play in a minimum of two majors this yr. Successful ANWA will add to her already prestigious resume.
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I am dishonest a bit right here, however it makes an excessive amount of sense to contemplate all 5 of those gamers collectively, contemplating they’re all on the identical school staff in addition to occupying different top-four spots throughout the top-five of the beginner rankings.
Spain’s Paula Martín Sampedro is second, forward of everybody else. The junior received the 2025 British Girls’s Newbie and is wanting ahead to doing effectively at Augusta Nationwide. There is a good motive why San Pedro’s compatriot Andrea Revuelta completed third on the earth. The sophomore already has three wins underneath her belt and has the power to warmth up shortly on the golf course. If she begins getting birdies, be careful.
Few individuals have received professionally on this area, however Sweden’s Meja Oltengren has executed simply that. The sophomore is the youngest of the Stanford group and received the Girls European Tour occasion final yr. Megha Ngannou and Kelly Shue, each seniors, spherical out the Cardinal group with a mixed seven ANWA begins. Ngannou, the reigning U.S. Girls’s Newbie champion and four-time champion in drive, chip and putt, hopes to finish her profession at Augusta on a excessive word.
Lianne Maliksi
There was numerous pleasure about her potential ANWA debut final yr as she was coming off a historic yr. She was the second participant in historical past to win each the U.S. Girls’s Junior and the U.S. Girls’s Newbie in the identical yr, and she or he wasn’t even at school but. Nonetheless, Marikisi needed to withdraw from the event as a consequence of a again damage.
The Filipino golfer, who’s at the moment a freshman at Duke and has already shot a course file 63, is wholesome and able to tackle Augusta Nationwide. Not like the opposite gamers on this checklist, she might not have the expertise, however it’s clear she has the expertise to win.
Elia Galitsky
Many bear in mind Tully’s last spherical final yr, however Galitsky’s was not solely higher, it was historic. Her 66 was the bottom rating ever recorded within the last spherical of the championship at Augusta Nationwide. The Thai prodigy, who received the 2023 Asia-Pacific Newbie Championship on the age of 17, is ranked No. 8 within the beginner world and is a sophomore on the College of South Carolina, and already has proof that he can end on the backside of the event.
