You’ve Got Mail: Castle, Frye Accept Invitations to 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Two College of Kentucky girls’s golfers, Jensen Fort and Laney Frye, accepted invites to compete on the 2023 Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner, it was introduced by the committee Wednesday.

The invites to compete on the famend championship had been despatched in January and 70 gamers have been confirmed for the event, which will probably be held in Augusta, Georgia, March 29 – April 1.

Every of the highest 45 eligible amateurs within the closing 2022 World Beginner Golf Rating have accepted invites to the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner. Fort, a senior from West Columbia, South Carolina, is at present No. 25 on that listing, whereas Frye, a junior from Nicholasville, Kentucky, is ranked No. 75.

Each Wildcats are enjoying on the high of their recreation after serving to Kentucky to 2 straight event wins to shut out the Fall 2022 schedule. They’re each on monitor to crushing the single-season, scoring-average program file, with Fort boasting a 70.3 scoring common (844 strokes / 12 rounds) and Frye proudly owning a 70.4 scoring common (845 strokes / 12 rounds) via 4 tournaments this season.

The 2 teammates at present personal the highest three marks on the single-season, scoring-average program file listing, whereas no participant has ever posted a mean decrease than 71.88.

In the meantime, Fort and Frye have had spectacular finishes in current noncollegiate tournaments. Fort is the 2021 U.S. Ladies’s Beginner Champion, whereas Frye received the 2022 U.S. Ladies’s Beginner stroke play portion of the event.

A present itemizing of the confirmed subject and bios is offered right here.

Starting the week previous to the 87th Masters Match, the worldwide subject will compete throughout 54 holes of stroke play, with a lower to 30 gamers and ties going down after 36 holes. The primary two rounds will happen on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Membership on Wednesday, March 29 and Thursday, March 30. All the subject will then play Augusta Nationwide for an official observe spherical on Friday, March 31. The ultimate spherical will happen at Augusta Nationwide on Saturday, April 1 and can characteristic the rivals who made the lower.

New in 2023, the primary and second rounds of the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner will probably be broadcast stay on Golf Channel (1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) from Champions Retreat Golf Membership. NBC Sports activities will produce and broadcast three hours (Midday-3 p.m. ET) of stay final-round protection of the occasion at Augusta Nationwide. Moreover, Golf Channel’s “Dwell From the Masters” will start on Friday, April 1 at Augusta Nationwide to offer protection of the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner, the Drive, Chip and Putt Nationwide Finals and the Masters Match.

Tickets to the Augusta Nationwide Ladies’s Beginner are bought out following a web-based ticket utility course of. No tickets will probably be accessible on the gates. For extra data, please go to ANWAgolf.com and observe the occasion’s official social media channels (@ANWAgolf) throughout Fb, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube and TikTok.

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