PRESENTING
WOMEN’S AMATEUR
FIRST TEAM
Allisen Corpuz
Honolulu, Hawaii/Southern Cal
Winner, Lamkin San Diego Invitational
Curtis Cup Team USA 3-0 Record
Semifinals, North & South Women’s Amateur
Corpuz won twice in the spring as a fifth-year USC senior and had seven top-5 finishes, including a semifinals appearance in the North & South. She also went 3-0 in the Curtis Cup, helping to win a crucial four-ball match against Caley McGinty and Emily Toy that flipped momentum.
Louise Duncan
Scotland
Top 10, AIG Women’s Open (Pro)
Winner, The Women’s Amateur
Top 10, Scottish Women’s Open
Duncan was the talk of the town at the AIG Women’s Open at Carnoustie where she had a legitimate chance to win before settling into a tie for 10th. She also won the Women’s Amateur and had top-10 finishes in the Scottish Women’s Open and Scottish Women’s Amateur.
Linn Grant
Sweden/Arizona State
Winner, Sun Devil Winter Classic
Top 5, LET Scandinavian Mixed (Pro)
Winner, Bruin Wave Invitational
Grant turned pro at the end of the summer, but her final act in the college ranks was special. She won three times for the Sun Devils and had two other runner-up finishes. A third-place finish at the Scandinavian Mixed, a top-10 in the European Ladies’ Amateur and a top-10 in the European Ladies’ Team Championship put a stamp on a phenomenal year.
Rachel Heck
Memphis, TennESSEE/Stanford
All-Time Lowest NCAA Season Scoring Average
Winner, NCAA Championship
Winner, NCAA Stanford Regional
Heck was the top amateur of the year, male or female. The Stanford freshman won five times, was a semifinalist in the U.S. Women’s Amateur, fell just short at the Augusta National Women’s Am and made the cut in the U.S. Women’s Open. Maybe the only real disappointment was that her Cardinal didn’t win a team national title, but Heck won the only match she played.
Gina Kim
Chapel Hill, North carolina/Duke
Winner, North & South Women’s Amateur
Winner, ACC Championship
Palmer Cup Team USA 4-0 Record
Kim had shown glimpses of greatness in the past, but 2021 was a breakthrough year. She won the stacked North & South, took the ACC title, went 4-0 in the Palmer Cup and had top-5 finishes in both the NCAA Championship and the Sally. That’s more than enough to overlook her disappointing 0-3 showing in the Curtis Cup.
Ingrid Lindblad
Sweden/LSU
Winner, European Ladies’ Amateur
Winner, Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
Winner, LSU Tiger Golf Classic
All three of Lindblad’s wins were against strong fields and she collected an additional five top-10 finishes on top of those victories. She also came one stroke shy of a playoff at the Augusta National Women’s Am.
CALEY McGINTY
England/Kent State and Oklahoma State
Curtis Cup Team GB&I 3-1-1 Record
Winner, Clemson Invitational
Runner-Up, NCAA Columbus Regional
McGinty won three times at Kent State last spring before transferring to powerhouse Oklahoma State. A phenomenal Curtis Cup where McGinty took down Gina Kim twice and a runner-up finish in the NCAA Columbus Regional proved her talent level.
Pauline Roussin-Bouchard
France/South Carolina
Winner, SEC Championship
Low-Am, Evian Championship (Pro)
Winner, Moon Golf Invitational
Roussin-Bouchard turned pro but only after a spectacular final semester for the Gamecocks. She won three times and had two other top-5 finishes, one of those in the Augusta National Women’s Am. A low-am performance at the Evian was her last impression before pro golf.
Emma Spitz
Austria/UCLA
Winner, NCAA Simpsonville Regional
Runner-Up, NCAA Championship
Top 5, Augusta National Women’s Amateur
Spitz had eight top-5 finishes, including two wins, in 12 starts. A round-of-32 appearance in the U.S. Women’s Amateur and a top-5 finish in the Augusta National Women’s Am cemented her place on the first team.
Maja Stark
Sweden/Oklahoma State
Top 20, U.S. Women’s Open (Pro)
Winner, Mountain View Collegiate
Winner, Heroes Ladies Intercollegiate
Stark won’t go down as the female amateur of the year because of Rachel Heck’s historic run, but her consistency was extremely impressive. She never finished outside the top 16 in any of her 12 tournaments, and her 16th-place showing may have been her best play of all — it came at the U.S. Women’s Open.
Rose Zhang
Irvine, CalifORNIA/Stanford
McCormack Medal Winner
Made Cut, Evian Championship (Pro)
Zhang’s U.S. Girls’ Junior triumph and her tremendous fall season doesn’t count for the All-Amateur selections, but she didn’t need it. She made the cut in an LPGA major and at the Lotte Championship, which had just as good a field, while also claiming a gold medal in the Spirit International and a runner-up at the Symetra Tour’s Carlisle Arizona Women’s Golf Classic.
SECOND TEAM
Hannah Darling
Scotland/South Carolina
Top Individual, European Ladies’ Team Championship
Winner, St. Rule Trophy
Karen Fredgaard
Denmark/Houston
Winner, UCF Challenge
Annabell Fuller
England/Florida
Winner, Florida Gators Invitational
Made Cut, AIG Women’s Open (Pro)
Youmin Hwang
South Korea
Top 5, Korea Women’s Open (Pro)
Winner, Korean Women’s Amateur
Julia Johnson
Saint Gabriel, LOUISIANA/Ole Miss
NCAA Team Champion 2-1 Match Play Record
Top 5, NCAA Championship
Tsubasa Kajitani
Japan
Winner, Augusta National Women’s Amateur
Rachel Kuehn
Asheville, North carolina/Wake Forest
Medalist, U.S. Women’s Amateur
Curtis Cup Team USA 3-1 Record
Kirsten Rudgeley
Australia
Winner, English Women’s Amateur
Winner, Scottish Women’s Open
Ana PelÁez
Spain/South Carolina
Winner, Copa Andalucía
Runner-Up, Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic
Beatrice Wallin
Sweden/Florida State
Winner, Florida State Match-Up
Top 5, European Ladies’ Amateur
Angelina Ye
China/Stanford
Top 5, NCAA Stanford Regional
HONORABLE MENTION
Kajsa ArwefjÄll
Sweden/San Jose State
Jenny Bae
Suwanee, GEORGIA/Georgia
Jensen Castle
West Columbia, South carolina/Kentucky
Carolina LÓpez-Chacarra
Spain/Wake Forest
Alexandra FÖrsterling
Germany/Arizona State
Megha Ganne
Holmdel, New jersey
Lauren Hartlage
Elizabethtown, KenTUCKY/Louisville
Mizuki Hashimoto
Charlotte Heath
England/Florida State
Vivian Hou
Chinese Taipei/Arizona
Haruka Kawasaki
Grace Kim
Irene Kim
La Palma, CalifORNIA/Northwestern
SAra Kjellker
Sweden/San Diego State
SÁra KouskovÁ
Czech Republic/Texas
Agathe LaisnÉ
France/Texas
Brooke Matthews
Rogers, ArkANSAS/Arkansas
Carolina Melgrati
Italy
Emilia Migliaccio
Cary, North carolina/Wake Forest
Benedetta Moresco
Italy/Alabama
Bang shin sil
south korea
latanna stone
riverview, florida/lsu
rina tatematsu
Thailand/oklahoma state
lauren walsh
Ireland/wake forest
Xiaowen Yin
China