Lignell, Tamburlini Both Receive Invitation to Augusta National Women’s Amateur – Ole Miss Athletics

AUGUSTA, Ga. – The 2023 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Newbie will characteristic loads of acquainted faces from the Ole Miss girls’s golf staff, as each Andrea Lignell and Chiara Tamburlini acquired invites to the distinguished occasion set to run March 29 via April 1.

This marks the primary time of Lignell or Tamburlini’s profession that they’ve acquired an invite to play on the ANWA. 

Latest Insurgent alumnus Julia Johnson additionally earned an invite to the 2023 iteration of the event, marking the fourth consecutive Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Newbie that she’s acquired an invite to.

The event, going down per week earlier than The Masters, will characteristic 72 of one of the best girls’s newbie golfers on this planet and will probably be held on the Champions Retreat Golf Membership. Following the second spherical, the sector will probably be lower to 30 with the ultimate spherical to be performed at Augusta Nationwide.

Lignell was on hearth for the Rebels to open up the 2022-23 season, with the Gothenburg, Sweden, native capturing her first two collegiate event wins on the Cougar Basic and The Ally. Lignell went on to complete within the high three of all 4 of the staff’s fall tournaments, taking pictures a stroke common of 69.50

A complete of 11 out of Lignell’s 12 rounds performed this fall had been below par, with seven of these rounds being within the 60s. This already ties her for fourth all-time in program historical past for many rounds below par in a single season.

Tamburlini will probably be aiming to look in her second consecutive Palmer Cup after incomes a spot at No. 10 within the worldwide rankings, with Tamburlini having helped lead the Worldwide Workforce to a 33-27 victory over Workforce USA within the 2022 Arnold Palmer Cup in her house nation of Switzerland.

The defending 2022 First-Workforce WGCA All-American has been on a tear for the Rebels, grabbing high 10 finishes in her previous seven tournaments courting again to the 2022 Gator Invitational in March. Tamburlini additionally holds a streak of 15 straight high 20 finishes, a stretch that started on the 2021 NCAA Championships.

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