The 103rd Women’s Texas Amateur will be contested from June 25-28 at Spanish Oaks Golf Club in Bee Cave for the first time in the championship’s long and storied history.
What awaits is a sublime course which is brilliantly crafted through a scenic background of limestone outcroppings, century-old trees, winding creeks, and expansive native areas. Also lying ahead and adding to the anticipation of the season’s first major is a chance for the winner to etch their name on the Spring Lake Cup Trophy and to earn an exemption into the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur.
“We are incredibly honored and excited to bring the Women’s Texas Amateur to Spanish Oaks Golf Club for the first time in 2024,” said Adam Schulte, TGA Tournament Director. “Spanish Oaks has a fantastic reputation and will be a wonderful stage for this prestigious event. It is sure to be an unforgettable championship experience for everyone involved.”
Nestled in the majestic Texas Hill Country just west of Austin, Spanish Oaks Golf Club has been consistently ranked inside the top ten on Golf Digest’s Best in Texas list since it opened in 2003. The course was designed by world-renowned architect Bobby Weed and is artfully routed through the natural environment with a compelling mix of holes trundling up and down over the rolling terrain. With an array of challenges, including numerous water hazards and deep bunkers protecting fast, sloping greens, as well as regularly gusting winds, the par-71 layout will certainly provide a thorough examination for the state’s best female amateur golfers.
“Everything about Spanish Oaks seems tailor-made as a tournament venue,” Schulte said. “It’s going to test every player in every way, physically and mentally, and I think that’s exactly what you want at a major championship.”
The 103rd Women’s Texas Amateur begins with the 96-player starting field competing in an 18-hole stroke play qualifying round on Tuesday, June 25, 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. First- and second-round championship matches will be played Wednesday, June 26; quarterfinals and semifinals on Thursday, June 27; and the final on Friday, June 28. All matches are 18 holes.
This year’s field will be one of the strongest ever assembled and is led by defending champion Madison Le of Mansfield. Le captured the 102nd Women’s Texas Amateur at Eagle’s Bluff Country Club in Bullard by defeating Sydney Givens of Austin, 5-and-4, in the finals. Emma McMyler of San Antonio, who won back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022, joins Le as a returning past champion.
Givens will also be back at Spanish Oaks this year, as are three quarterfinalists from 2023, including Gabbi Bentancourt of Frisco, Hunter Nugent of Irving, and Raleygh Simpson of Kerrville.
The Women’s Texas Amateur is always the most highly anticipated event on the annual schedule, but it’s particularly significant this year given the winner will not only go down in the history books alongside some of the all-time greats of the game, but will also earn an invitation to play in a national championship. As an official USGA Exemption Event beginning in 2024, the winner at Spanish Oaks will receive an automatic bid into the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur, scheduled from Aug. 5-11 at Southern Hills Country Club in Tulsa, Okla.
Back when the City of Bee Cave was founded, it truly did derive its name from a nearby limestone cave where colonies of Mexican honeybees swarmed. With the Women’s Texas Amateur making its inaugural journey to the impressive Spanish Oaks Golf Club on the southern edge of downtown, along with all the excitement that accompanies the first major of the season, there’s even more buzz than usual around the area this year.
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