Lynn Lim wins 2025 Sea Island Women’s Amateur with poise and precision

May 31, 2025 | by Kevin Price of AmateurGolf.com

Lynn Lim, 2025 Sea Island Women's Amateur Champion (Photo by Kevin Price)

Vanderbilt’s Lynn Lim held off a stacked field and coastal winds to win the 2025 Sea Island Women’s Amateur

Lynn Lim was hoping a breakthrough victory might be around the corner, but the Vanderbilt standout didn’t necessarily expect it to take place this week on the Georgia coast when opening her summer playing schedule in the Sea Island Women’s Amateur.

Playing on the Seaside Course at the renowned Sea Island Golf Club, which annually hosts the SEC Men’s Golf Championships each spring, things fell into place for Lim this week on the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, where she emerged as the champion Saturday afternoon in the fifth edition of this three-day event that is quickly growing in stature in the women’s amateur game.

“It’s a really big deal for me,” Lim said. “I’ve been knocking on the door but haven’t had a win in about two years. To be able to come out here with a strong field, play on a beautiful golf course, and perform the way I did this week—just being consistent and relentless—I’m really proud of myself. If nothing else, I proved to myself I can get back in the winner’s circle.”

Lim, who just wrapped up her junior season at Vandy, survived a final-round battle with playing partner and Oklahoma State golfer Grace Kilcrease to claim the winner’s trophy. The two players were deadlocked at the top of the leaderboard for most of the back nine Saturday afternoon before Lim surged ahead late with pars on the final four holes after both players made bogey on the par-4 14th hole, which plays along the Atlantic Ocean.

Kilcrease, meanwhile, made back-to-back bogeys on the 16th and 17th holes, which left her two down as the players walked to the last hole in the final pairing.

Lim ended up shooting 2-over-par 72 on the day to finish at 4-under for the three-round championship, while Kilcrease settled for a 74 in the final round and a 2-under total for the tournament.

Both players began the closing round at 6-under and trailed tournament leader Jessica Guiser by two shots. Guiser, who plays at Florida, opened with an 8-under 62 on Thursday to vault to the tournament lead and remained in front after Friday’s even-par 70.

Guiser faltered at the start on Saturday while also playing in the final group, making bogey on the first five holes and falling out of the lead for the first time since the end of Round 1. She went on to shoot 78 with four more bogeys and a birdie, finishing at even par for the tournament and tied for fifth overall.

Lim, from Gallatin, Tennessee, went to Vanderbilt as the 2022 Tennessee Golf Association Girls’ Junior Player of the Year and the 2022 Tennessee Women’s Amateur Champion. She was voted SEC Freshman of the Year after her first season with the Commodores.

She has yet to record a collegiate victory, but this season Lim led the team with 13 rounds at or under par and posted a third-place finish at a tournament played at Yale.

“This past year, I had a couple of opportunities to win, and I was disappointed,” she said. “But I didn’t stop believing in myself or quit pushing. I knew I could do it, it was just a matter of time.”

This week, she opened with a 66 in Round 1, making six birdies and two bogeys. She followed that with a 68 on Friday that included an eagle-3 on the par-5 15th hole.

In Saturday’s round, which featured difficult pins and gusting winds, Lim made her only birdie at the short par-4 8th hole. She had back-to-back bogeys on Nos. 9 and 10, which left her tied with Kilcrease. They remained tied until the 16th hole, when Lim just missed a long birdie putt before Kilcrease saw a par-save from six feet clip the left edge and spin out.

Kilcrease also bogeyed the par-3 17th, while Lim made an 8-foot par putt to head to the finishing hole with a two-shot lead over both Kilcrease and Megan Streicher, who closed with a 69 in the final round.

Streicher, who plays at North Carolina, had birdied the demanding 18th earlier and finished tied for second at 2-under.

Lim was congratulated by several Vanderbilt teammates after tapping in for par on the final green.

“The strength of my game is my ball-striking, and that really paid off this week, especially with the wind and some of the tucked pins,” she said. “Ultimately, it came down to those putts. being able to make those three to five-footers, especially when the conditions are hard like they were today.”

Chloe Schiavone, who played at Virginia this past season as a graduate student, finished solo fourth at 1-under. Mia Sessa, an Augusta, Georgia native and Yale golfer, tied for fifth alongside Guiser at even par.

Guiser’s opening-round 62 was one shot off the tournament single-round record.

The Sea Island tournament once again launched the Elite Amateur Golf Series for women, now in its second summer and featuring five of the premier events on the amateur circuit.

Final Top 10 Leaderboard

Pos	Player	Hometown	R1	R2	R3	Total
1	Lynn Lim	Gallatin, Tennessee	66	68	72	206 (-4)
T2	Megan Streicher	Chapel Hill, North Carolina	70	69	69	208 (-2)
T2	Grace Kilcrease	Springdale, Arkansas	70	64	74	208 (-2)
4	Chloe Schiavone	Jacksonville, Florida	69	69	71	209 (-1)
T5	Mia Sessa	Augusta, Georgia	65	72	73	210 (E)
T5	Jessica Guiser	Hartland, Wisconsin	62	70	78	210 (E)
T7	Paula Francisco	Madrid, Spain	74	72	66	212 (+2)
T7	Sara Im	Duluth, Georgia	73	72	67	212 (+2)
T9	Sophia Burnett	Green Pond, South Carolina	68	76	69	213 (+3)
T9	Shyla Brown	McKinney, Texas	66	73	74	213 (+3)

About the Sea Island Women’s Amateur

Hosted on the championship Seaside Course at Sea Island Golf Club, the Sea Island Women’s Amateur is quickly becoming one of the elite stops in women’s amateur golf. Modeled after the Jones Cup Invitational, the event features a competitive 54-hole stroke play format and a field composed of top collegiate and amateur talent.

The tournament serves as the first event in the Women’s Elite Amateur Golf Series, a summer-long schedule of high-level events offering Elite Amateur Cup points and potential exemptions into USGA championships and professional starts.

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Results: Sea Island Women's Amateur

Place	Player	Location	Pts	Scores
1	Lynn Lim	Gallatin, TN	700	66-68-72=206
T2	Megan Streicher	, South Africa	500	70-69-69=208
T2	Grace Kilcrease	Springdale, AR	500	70-64-74=208
4	Chloe Schiavone	Jacksonville, FL	400	69-69-71=209
T5	Mia Sessa	Augusta, GA	400	65-72-73=210

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About the Sea Island Women's Amateur

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Pos

Player

Hometown

Total

Lynn Lim

Gallatin, Tennessee

206 (-4)

Megan Streicher

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

208 (-2)

Grace Kilcrease

Springdale, Arkansas

208 (-2)

Chloe Schiavone

Jacksonville, Florida

209 (-1)

Mia Sessa

Augusta, Georgia

210 (E)

Jessica Guiser

Hartland, Wisconsin

210 (E)

Paula Francisco

Madrid, Spain

212 (+2)

Sara Im

Duluth, Georgia

212 (+2)

Sophia Burnett

Green Pond, South Carolina

213 (+3)

Shyla Brown

McKinney, Texas

213 (+3)

Place

Player

Location

Pts

Scores

Lynn Lim

Gallatin, TN

700

66-68-72=206

Megan Streicher

, South Africa

500

70-69-69=208

Grace Kilcrease

Springdale, AR

500

70-64-74=208

Chloe Schiavone

Jacksonville, FL

400

69-69-71=209

Mia Sessa

Augusta, GA

400

65-72-73=210