Online entry registration is now open for the 103rd Women’s Texas Amateur Championship, a USGA Exemption Event, to be played June 25-28 at Spanish Oaks Golf Club in Bee Cave.
Located about 20 miles west of Austin, Spanish Oaks Golf Club opened in 2003 and was designed by Bobby Weed, the former main in-house architect for the PGA Tour. The compelling layout presents an array of challenges with a strategic mix of long and short holes that meander up and down the rolling hills, around winding creeks, and through majestic century-old trees and expansive native areas.
The championship is open to female amateur golfers who have an up-to-date WHS Handicap Index® issued through a member club of the TGA and are current residents of the state of Texas. Online player registration can be accessed here, and entries will be accepted through Wednesday, May 29, at 5 p.m. CDT.
Several modifications and enhancements have been announced ahead of the 2024 championship and are outlined below:
Format Change to Women’s Texas Amateur
The Women’s Texas Amateur will have a new streamlined approach that is intended to benefit both players and host clubs. The championship qualifying method and match-play format remains essentially the same, but it will no longer include consolation rounds.
All contestants in the starting field must compete in a 18-hole stroke play qualifying round to determine standings for flight brackets in the match play portion of the championship. The lowest 32 scorers in the qualifying round advance to the championship match play flight bracket. The remaining 64 players will be seeded based on qualifying round scores into eight match play flight brackets of eight players each. All match play flight brackets are single elimination; there will be no consolation flight brackets or matches.
Amateur Champion Receives U.S. Women’s Amateur Exemption
The winner of the Women’s Texas Amateur at Spanish Oaks will receive an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur to be contested Aug. 5-11 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
This exciting development is part of a modernized USGA qualifying model that will begin to utilize State Amateur Championships that meet certain three-year rolling World Amateur Golf Ranking® event power (field strength) thresholds with another pathway into certain national championships in addition to the traditional qualifying and exemption process.
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