Six Australians take on US Women’s Amateur Championship

Ella Scaysbrook – during last year’s road to the semi-finals at Bandon Dunes – image USGA

Australia will field six representatives in next week’s US Women’s Amateur Championship at the Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee, all seeking to become the first Australian since Gabi Ruffels’ win in 2019 and just the second Australian in the history of the event to win golf’s greatest female amateur championship.

Victoria’s Jazy Roberts heads the group in the world women’s amateur ranking, followed by Raegen Denton, Ella Scaysbrook, Rachel Lee, Amy Hodgkins, and the amazing Sue Wooster, now 64, who has been a four-time runner-up at the US Senior Women’s Amateur Championship.

The Pete Dye-designed Honors Course has previously held several USGA events, but this is the first time it will hold either a US Men’s or Women’s Amateur championship

Roberts and Denton earn their place in the field courtesy of their standing inside the top 50 of the world amateur rankings, Scaysbrook as a result of her fine semi final finish in last year’s championship, Rachel Lee due to her qualifying via the demanding qualifying process, Hodgkins for her win in the recent Colorado Women’s Amateur and Wooster for her runner-up finish in the US Senior Women’s in 2025.

Scaysbrook will be chasing atonement for her agonising semifinal loss against eventual championship winner Megha Ganne at Bandon Dunes last year, when, after being 4 up with seven holes to play, she lost at the first extra hole.