Several of the world’s top amateurs will represent their respective countries as part of squads announced last Tuesday for the World Amateur Team Championships in Singapore.
The biennial championships, contested over 72 holes of stroke play, will be held at Tanah Merah Country Club, with the women competing for the Espirito Santo Trophy from Oct. 1-4 and the men vying for the Eisenhower Trophy from Oct. 8-11. Thirty-six countries will be represented by a team of two or three players in each event, with the two lowest scores counting per round. Republic of Korea won the Espirito Santo Trophy in 2023 while the United States took home the Eisenhower Trophy.
Six of the top 10 players in the women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking will compete in Singapore: Americans Kiara Romero (No. 1), Megha Ganne (No. 4) and Farah O’Keefe (No. 7), Spain’s Paula Martin Sampedro (No. 2) and Andrea Revuelta (No. 3), and Sweden’s Meja Ortengren (No. 4). Five of the top 10 in the men’s ranking will tee up the following week: Americans Ethan Fang (No. 3) and Preston Stout (No. 4), Czechia’s Filip Jakubčík (No. 7), South Africa’s Christiaan Maas (No. 8) and Englishman Tyler Weaver (No. 10).
U.S. Amateur champion Mason Howell will join Fang and Stout on the American men’s squad. Before leaving for Singapore, all three will represent the United States in this week’s Walker Cup at Cypress Point. Likewise, Weaver will anchor an England team in Singapore that will include his Great Britain and Ireland Walker Cup teammates, Eliot Baker and Charlie Forster. Scotland, too, will field three Walker Cup players: Cameron Adam, Connor Graham and Niall Shiels Donegan. A seventh GB&I Walker Cupper, Stuart Grehan, will represent Ireland alongside Caolan Rafferty and John Doyle.
Like Howell on the men’s side, Ganne earned an automatic berth on the U.S. women’s squad by winning the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes last month. Romero, the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior champion, earned automatic selection as the McCormack Medal winner as the world’s top-ranked amateur. O’Keefe, the 2024 Women’s Western Amateur champion, was runner-up at the 2025 Women’s Amateur Championship at Nairn Golf Club in Scotland. Spain’s Martin Sampedro won that championship as well as the European Ladies’ Amateur in Germany.
Staff Report