Winner gains exemptions to top am events
As the calendar turns to April, all eyes in the golf world turn to Augusta, Georgia. The main event – The Masters – begins April 9. Ahead of that, though, is the annual Augusta National Women’s Amateur with a stellar field of 72 top amateurs teeing off Wednesday.
Three players in the ANWA field have ties to Alabama. Birmingham’s Scarlett Schremmer, a high school senior, is making her first appearance in the Augusta National Women’s AMateur. Two players from Auburn are in the field – former ANWA champion Anna Davis and Casey Weidenfeld, who finished tied for fifth in 2024.
Much of the attention will fall on Davis, the Auburn sophomore who won the 2022 Augusta National Women’s Amateur and is coming off a victory in the Charles Schwab Women’s Collegiate Invitational at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas.
When she was just 16, Davis outlasted Ingrid Lindblad and Latanna Stone for the ANWA championship with a final-round 69 that included birdies on hole Nos. 2, 9, 12 and 13. The 2024 Second Team All-American at Auburn has five top-three finishes this season, including wins in the 2024 Illini Invitational at Medinah and the 2025 Charles Schwab Women’s Spring Invitational.
In each of the past two years, she reached the quarterfinals of the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Since 2023, the three-time junior All-American has represented the United States in the Junior Solheim Cup, Junior Ryder Cup, Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, Pan American Games, Arnold Palmer Cup and Curtis Cup.
Weidenfeld, a redshirt junior at Auburn, is making her second championship start after finishing tied for fifth in 2024. Her final-round 70 at Augusta National included six birdies – on hole Nos. 1, 8, 10, 13, 14 and 15. She has two top-20 finishes this season, including T5 in the Schooner Fall Classic last September.
Also in 2024, she reached the round of 16 in the Women’s Western Amateur and finished T16 in the Canadian Women’s Amateur.
In 2023, she reached the quarterfinals of the Women’s Western Amateur, the round of 16 in the North and South Women’s Amateur and the round of 32 in the U.S. Women’s Amateur. She and Jillian Bourdage teamed together to finish runner-up in the U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball in both 2019 and 2021.
The 18-year-old Schremmer is making her ANWA debut. The two-time junior All-American was named to the United States National Junior Team for both 2024 and 2025. She finished runner-up in the South American Women’s Amateur in Chile in January, tied for fourth in the Fortinet Stanford Invitational hosted by Rose Zhang in California in February and fifth in the Girls’ Junior Invitational in South Carolina in March.
Last year, she won the Dye Junior Invitational, finished runner-up in both the Nelly Invitational and Rolex Tournament of Champions, represented the United States in the Junior Solheim Cup and reached the round of 16 in both the U.S. Girls Junior and U.S. Women’s Amateur.
The winner of the ANWA receives an invitation to the next five Augusta National Women’s Amateurs, the U.S. Women’s Open, the AIG Women’s Open, the Chevron Championship, the Evian Championship and any USGA, R&A and PGA of America amateur championships for which she is eligible for one year provided she remains an amateur.
The first two rounds of the 54-hole event are played on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday and Thursday. The entire field plays Augusta National for an official practice round Friday. The top 30 and ties advance to the final round at Augusta National on Saturday.
Gregg Dewalt is the editor of Alabama Golf News
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Featured image of Anna Schremmer courtesy of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur
