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Kyra Ly To Compete At Augusta National Women’s Amateur
February 04, 2026 | Women's Golf
CORVALLIS, Ore. – Kyra Ly was selected to compete at the 2026 Augusta National Women's Amateur, which will be held April 1-4 in Augusta, Ga.
Beginning the week prior to the 90th Masters Tournament, the international field of 72 players will compete across 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut to 30 players and ties taking place after 36 holes.
The first two rounds will take place on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2. The entire field will then play Augusta National Golf Club for an official practice round on Friday, April 3. The final round, featuring competitors who made the cut, will take place on Saturday, April 4 at Augusta National.
Ly, a senior from Portland, was named an Honorable Mention All-American by the by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) last season. She became just the second Oregon State women's golfer to earn All-America recognition, joining Kathleen Takaishi who received the honor in 1998.
Capping an outstanding junior campaign, Ly was voted the West Coast Conference (WCC) Player of the Year, was an All-WCC selection and was named the WCC Golfer of the Month in February.
Ly had a sensational 2025 fall season with a share of the individual title at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship, and a tie for fourth place at both the Leadership and Golf Invitational and the Molly Collegiate Invitational. Her 11 career Top 10 finishes are the fourth most in Oregon State history.
Included in the Augusta National Women's Amateur field are each of the top 20 players in the current World Amateur Golf Ranking and 48 of the top 50 overall. Players representing 23 different countries and territories as well as all six inhabited continents will compete in this year's Championship, including past champions Tsubasa Kajitani (2021) and Anna Davis (2022), 2025 runner-up Asterisk Talley and Kiara Romero, the top-ranked amateur in the world.
A current listing of the confirmed field is available here.
The first and second rounds of the Augusta National Women's Amateur will be broadcast live on Golf Channel (1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) from Champions Retreat Golf Club. NBC Sports will produce and broadcast three hours (Noon-3 p.m. ET) of live final-round coverage of the event at Augusta National.
Additionally, Golf Channel's "Live From the Masters" will commence on Friday, April 3 at Augusta National to provide coverage of the Augusta National Women's Amateur, the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals and the Masters Tournament.
The Augusta National Women's Amateur, which has hosted the top women amateurs in golf since 2019, will celebrate its seventh Championship in 2026. The inaugural edition was won by future major champion Jennifer Kupcho in 2019 before the 2020 Championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kajitani kickstarted a historic April in 2021, capturing the first title for Japan at Augusta National eight days prior to Hideki Matsuyama's win at the Masters Tournament.
In 2022, 16-year-old Davis became the event's youngest winner after a final-round 69. Coming off of nearly three years as the top-ranked amateur in the world, Rose Zhang put a bow on her amateur career with a playoff victory at the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur. In 2024, England's Lottie Woad became the first European champion of the event with birdies at Nos. 17 and 18 to win by one stroke before going on to match Zhang's feat of winning in her professional debut on the LPGA Tour.
Last year, Spaniard Carla Bernat Escuder birdied all four par-5s in the final round at Augusta National en route to setting a new Championship record at 12-under 204 in a one-stroke victory.
For more information, please visit ANWAgolf.com and follow the event's official social media channels (@ANWAgolf) across Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
Beginning the week prior to the 90th Masters Tournament, the international field of 72 players will compete across 54 holes of stroke play, with a cut to 30 players and ties taking place after 36 holes.
The first two rounds will take place on the Island and Bluff nines at Champions Retreat Golf Club on Wednesday, April 1 and Thursday, April 2. The entire field will then play Augusta National Golf Club for an official practice round on Friday, April 3. The final round, featuring competitors who made the cut, will take place on Saturday, April 4 at Augusta National.
Ly, a senior from Portland, was named an Honorable Mention All-American by the by the Women's Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) last season. She became just the second Oregon State women's golfer to earn All-America recognition, joining Kathleen Takaishi who received the honor in 1998.
Capping an outstanding junior campaign, Ly was voted the West Coast Conference (WCC) Player of the Year, was an All-WCC selection and was named the WCC Golfer of the Month in February.
Ly had a sensational 2025 fall season with a share of the individual title at the Mercedes-Benz Collegiate Championship, and a tie for fourth place at both the Leadership and Golf Invitational and the Molly Collegiate Invitational. Her 11 career Top 10 finishes are the fourth most in Oregon State history.
Included in the Augusta National Women's Amateur field are each of the top 20 players in the current World Amateur Golf Ranking and 48 of the top 50 overall. Players representing 23 different countries and territories as well as all six inhabited continents will compete in this year's Championship, including past champions Tsubasa Kajitani (2021) and Anna Davis (2022), 2025 runner-up Asterisk Talley and Kiara Romero, the top-ranked amateur in the world.
A current listing of the confirmed field is available here.
The first and second rounds of the Augusta National Women's Amateur will be broadcast live on Golf Channel (1:30-3:30 p.m. ET) from Champions Retreat Golf Club. NBC Sports will produce and broadcast three hours (Noon-3 p.m. ET) of live final-round coverage of the event at Augusta National.
Additionally, Golf Channel's "Live From the Masters" will commence on Friday, April 3 at Augusta National to provide coverage of the Augusta National Women's Amateur, the Drive, Chip and Putt National Finals and the Masters Tournament.
The Augusta National Women's Amateur, which has hosted the top women amateurs in golf since 2019, will celebrate its seventh Championship in 2026. The inaugural edition was won by future major champion Jennifer Kupcho in 2019 before the 2020 Championship was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Kajitani kickstarted a historic April in 2021, capturing the first title for Japan at Augusta National eight days prior to Hideki Matsuyama's win at the Masters Tournament.
In 2022, 16-year-old Davis became the event's youngest winner after a final-round 69. Coming off of nearly three years as the top-ranked amateur in the world, Rose Zhang put a bow on her amateur career with a playoff victory at the 2023 Augusta National Women's Amateur. In 2024, England's Lottie Woad became the first European champion of the event with birdies at Nos. 17 and 18 to win by one stroke before going on to match Zhang's feat of winning in her professional debut on the LPGA Tour.
Last year, Spaniard Carla Bernat Escuder birdied all four par-5s in the final round at Augusta National en route to setting a new Championship record at 12-under 204 in a one-stroke victory.
For more information, please visit ANWAgolf.com and follow the event's official social media channels (@ANWAgolf) across Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube and TikTok.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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