Kelly Xu's amazing hardware haul at LNGA Amateur Championship

July 28, 2022 | by Jim Young of AmateurGolf.com

Kelly Xu (LNGA photo)

Back up the truck! Incoming Stanford freshman wins three Ladies National Golf Association titles on the same day

Kelly Xu is going to have a few more bags to check at St. Louis' Lambert International Airport on her way home to Claremont, Calif.

The incoming Stanford freshman won three championship trophies at the rain-shortened Ladies National Golf Association’s 92nd Amateur Championship which wrapped up Thursday at Lake Forest Country Club in Lake St. Louis, Mo.

Not simply content with winning the Dorothy Pease Junior Trophy for competitors ages 18 and under, Xu's 36-hole total of 4-under 144 (68-72) earned her the George III Amateur Trophy awarded to the overall first place winner.

Wait - there's more.

Kelly Xu was the first female champion at Augusta National

Xu, 18, partnered with future Stanford teammate Sadie Englemann of Austin, Texas to win the Howell Team Trophy with a 6-under score of 282 (140-142). Reagan Zibilski of Springfield, Mo, and Marissa Wenzler of Dayton, Ohio shared runner-up honors after finishing at 3-under par (69-72) (72-69).

“I had a lot of close shots, a lot of looks at birdie so I felt really good and had a really good mindset,” said Xu. “Today I had only eight holes left to play so it was harder to get into the groove of things…but it was fun.”

Xu will join another prized recruit, Megha Ganne, at Stanford in the fall. Like Ganne, she is a first-team AJGA Rolex All-American who was named the 2021 Southern California Golf Association's Player of the Year in 2021 after she won the SCGA Women's Amateur Championship. She is currently ranked 10th in the AJGA girls' rankings.

With all due respect to 2019 ANWA winner Jennifer Kupcho, Xu also has the distinction of being the first female champion at Augusta National, winning the inaugural Drive, Chip, and Putt (7-9 age group) as a 9-year-old fourth-grader in 2014.

Results: LNGA Amateur

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Kelly Xu	Claremont, CA	700	68-72=140
T2	Reagan Zibilski	Springfield, MO	500	69-72=141
T2	Marissa Wenzler	Centerville, OH	500	72-69=141
T4	Victoria Gailey	Tigard, OR	400	69-73=142
T4	Caitlin Peirce	, Australia	400	73-69=142

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Kelly Xu's amazing hardware haul at LNGA Amateur Championship

The inaugural event, held in 1927 at Blue Hills Country Club in Kansas City, Mo. set off decades of successful tournament across the United States, conducted by an organization then named the Missouri Valley Women's Golf Association. A year later, th...