The 2022 U.S. Women’s Open will feature more than 15 current college golfers, including some of the very best players in the country, who contended for — or in one case, won — the 2022 NCAA DI Women’s Golf Championships. This year’s U.S. Women’s Open is at Pine Needles Lodge & Golf Club in Southern Pines, North Carolina, from June 2-5.
Here are the golfers in the 2022 U.S. Women’s Open field who competed at the NCAA level during the 2021-22 season. The players are listed alphabetically by last name, which means we saved the best for last — literally — because Stanford’s Rose Zhang just won the NCAA individual and team titles and the Annika Award as a freshman.
Malak Bouraeda
School: Colorado
Years active: 2018-22
Bouraeda plans to return to Colorado for a fifth season, according to the USGA, after posting three top-five finishes for the school in the last four seasons. She earned the only qualifying spot for the U.S. Women’s Open at Walnut Creek Golf Preserve, where she shot a 1-under in the qualifier.
Jensen Castle
School: Kentucky
Years active: 2019-22
As a freshman at Kentucky, Castle set the program’s single-season stroke record with an average of 71.88, while she earned All-SEC First Team honors, becoming the first Wildcat to do so since 1989. Last…
