Whenever I attend a USGA event, I feel like a queen. Everything is covered and I am lavished with hospitality. It is always a great golf course with great facilities and people.
Noreen Mohler 2010 Curtis Cup Captain
2009 U.S. Women's Amateur Champion
Old Warson Country Club
Jennifer Song
PAST CHAMPIONS Glenna Collett Vare, with six victories (1922, '25, '28, 29, '30, '35) leads the list of Women's Amateur champions, followed by JoAnne Gunderson Carner with five (1957, '60, '62, '62, 68. Patty Berg (1938), Babe Zaharias (1946), Louise Suggs (1947), Marlene Stewart Streit (1956), Anne Quast (1958, '61 '63), Barbara McIntire (1959, '64), Catherine Lacoste (1969), Carol Semple Thompson (1973), Beth Daniel (1975, '77), Juli Inkster (1980, '81, '82), Pat Hurst (1990), Wendy Ward (1994), Grace Park (1998), Dorothy Delasin (1999), and Kimberly Kim, who with her victory at the 2006 Women's Amateur became the youngest winner, at age 14, in the championship's history.
For a complete list of Past Champions please click here.
| FOR THE WINNER The champion receives: |
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A gold medal and custody of the Robert Cox Cup for the ensuing year
A 10-year exemption from sectional qualifying for future U.S. Women's Amateur Championships
A 10-year exemption from sectional qualifying for future U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur Championships, if otherwise eligible
A 10-year exemption from sectional qualifying for future U.S. Women's Amateur Public Links Championships, if otherwise eligible
An exemption from sectional qualifying for the next two U.S. Women's Open Championships, if still an amateur
An exemption from sectional qualifying for future USGA Senior Women's Amateur Championships, if otherwise eligible |
