The largest novice stars in ladies’s golf get to check themselves on the house of The Masters this week, with the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner reside on Sky Sports activities.
LPGA Tour stars Lottie Woad, Rose Zhang and Jennifer Kupcho are among the many previous winners of the annual occasion, which was launched with the intention of getting ‘a major and lasting affect on the way forward for the ladies’s recreation’.
Forty-eight of the world’s prime 50 novice gamers are scheduled to function within the 72-player discipline, the place final yr’s runner-up Asterisk Talley is among the many favourites after impressing on the LPGA Tour final week on the Ford Championship.
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Highlights from the ultimate spherical of the 2025 August Nationwide Girls’s Beginner, the place Carla Bernat Escuder clinched the title
Girls’s novice No 1 Kiara Romero headlines a global discipline, scheduled to function gamers from 23 completely different nations, with practically half of the line-up making their maiden look on the occasion.
Persistence Rhodes – the youthful sister of LPGA Tour common Mimi Rhodes – is the one Englishwoman on this yr’s line-up, whereas Eire’s Beth Coulter and Spain’s Paula Martin Sampedro – who completed tied-eighth on the AIG Girls’s Open final yr – are among the many different European pursuits concerned.
Beth Coulter and Persistence Rhodes each function on the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner
What’s the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner format?
The primary 36 holes are performed on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Membership on Wednesday and Thursday, with the complete discipline then attending to play a observe spherical at Augusta Nationwide on Friday.
Solely the highest 30 and ties from the primary two days make the minimize and get to function within the last spherical, which additionally takes place at Augusta Nationwide and on the identical course the place The Masters will happen the next week.
Within the occasion of a tie after 54 holes, the winner might be determined in a sudden-death playoff.
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Bohyun Park claims the primary ever Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner hole-in-one through the 2023 version
How do gamers qualify for the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner?
Reigning champions of the US Girls’s Beginner, Girls’s Beginner Championship, Girls’s Asia-Pacific Beginner champion, R&A Women’ Beginner, the U.S. Women’ Junior, Women Junior PGA – offering they continue to be novice – are all invited.
The NCAA Division One particular person champion and the final 5 winners of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner additionally function, if they’re nonetheless amateurs, together with the highest 30 American gamers within the Girls’s World Beginner Golf Rating on the finish of 2025.
The subsequent 30 highest-ranked gamers not already certified on the finish of the calendar yr additionally get a spot, with the remainder of the sector made up by particular invitationals from the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner Committee.
What does the winner of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner get?
Supplied they continue to be an novice, the champion will obtain an invite to the following 5 Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Amateurs.
Additionally they obtain invitations to 4 of the 5 ladies’s majors – the Chevron Championship, US Girls’s Open, Evian Championship and the AIG Girls’s Open.
Lottie Woad is among the many former winners of the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner
Who has gained the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner earlier than?
Kupcho was the world’s prime novice when she performed her last six holes in 5 underneath to win the inaugural version in 2019, whereas Japan’s Tsubasa Kajitani claimed the 2021 version after the earlier yr’s contest was cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Anna Davis grew to become the youngest champion after successful the 2022 contest as a 16-year-old, earlier than Zhang defeated Jenny Bae in a two-hole play-off in 2023 forward of that includes within the Solheim Cup later that yr.
Woad got here again from two behind with 5 holes to play to grab a outstanding victory within the 2024 contest, with three birdies in her final 4 holes seeing her end one forward of Bailey Shoemaker.
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Relive the second that Lottie Woad grew to become the primary Brit to win the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner
The Englishwoman completed third in final yr’s title defence earlier than turning skilled later that summer time, whereas Carla Bernat Escuder – who gained the 2025 version – has additionally left the novice ranks forward of her title defence.
How can I watch the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner reside on Sky Sports activities?
Sky Sports activities will as soon as once more present reside protection from all three rounds, with the motion reside from 6.30pm on Wednesday and Thursday forward of the ultimate spherical being reside on Saturday from 5pm on Sky Sports activities Golf.
The event is certainly one of a number of golf occasions reside on Sky Sports activities this week, with the PGA Tour’s Valero Texas Open – the final likelihood to qualify or The Masters – and the Aramco Championship additionally reside on Sky Sports activities.
Who will win the Augusta Nationwide Girls’s Beginner? Watch all three rounds reside on Sky Sports activities. Dwell protection begins on Wednesday from 6.30pm on Sky Sports activities Golf. Get Sky Sports activities or stream with no contract.
