Carolina Melgrati Returns to Augusta National Women’s Amateur

AUGUSTA, Ga. – Sophomore Carolina Melgrati will represent Arizona Women’s Golf at the prestigious Augusta National Women’s Amateur this week. Melgrati will participate in the event at the home of the Masters Tournament for a second consecutive year in the nationally televised tournament on the Golf Channel. She will tee off on Wednesday, March 29 at 5:46 a.m. on the Champions Retreat Course.

The Milan, Italy native’s 2023 invite represents the seventh time an Arizona Wildcat has played in ANWA since the tournament began in 2019. Haley Moore, Yu-Sang Hou and Vivian Hou played in the inaugural event in 2019 before it was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 global pandemic. The Hou sisters competed again in 2021 and were followed by Melgrati’s first appearance in 2022.

The Augusta National Women’s Amateur was announced on Wednesday, April 4, 2018, by Chairman Fred Ridley during his annual press conference at the Masters Tournament. The event was established to inspire greater interest and participation in the women’s game by creating a new, exciting and rewarding pathway for these players to fulfill their dreams.

The format includes an international field of 72 women amateurs will compete over 54 holes of stroke play. A cut will take place after 36 holes, advancing the leading 30 players and ties to the final round at Augusta National Golf Club. In the event of a tie after 54 holes, the winner will be decided by sudden-death playoff.

Arizona’s best finish at the event came in 2019 when Haley Moore finished in a tie for seventh and remains the only Wildcat to make the cut at ANWA.