Scarlett Schremmer has spent the last six months collecting trophies in amateur and college golf. This week she gets a different kind of test.
The University of Miami sophomore tees it up Thursday at The ANNIKA driven by Gainbridge at Pelican, her first start on the LPGA Tour. Pelican Golf Club, which owns and hosts the event, gave her the last of the tournament’s three sponsor invitations in October. She’ll play as an amateur in a 108-player field at Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida, where the purse is $3.25 million, the cut after 36 holes is the top 65 and ties, and World No. 1 Nelly Korda is chasing a win that would make her eligible for the LPGA Hall of Fame.
The person carrying her bag is the reason she plays golf at all. Her mother, Patricia “Patty” Ehrhart, is a former LPGA Tour player who led the 1996 Duramed Futures Tour (now the Epson Tour) money list, and she will caddie for her daughter this week. Schremmer told the Tampa Bay Times that her mom often knows what she’s thinking and feeling before she says a word.
An invitation earned on the course
All three of The ANNIKA’s sponsor invites went to players with results to point to. Wake Forest senior Macy Pate earned hers when the Demon Deacons won the ANNIKA Intercollegiate, and Annabelle Pancake-Webb arrives as an Epson Tour winner with full LPGA status for 2027.
Schremmer’s case was two individual titles in Miami’s first three events of the 2026-27 season. She found out by text from a teammate while sitting in a physics class, and instead of heading back to class, she went to the range. In the tournament’s announcement, she thanked Pelican Golf Club for what she called “this unbelievable opportunity.”
She has described the week as something like an internship: a chance to watch how the best players in the world prepare and compete before she has to do it for a living.
Watch: Walk & Talk with Scarlett Schremmer
Callaway caught up with Schremmer, a Team Callaway NEXT player, ahead of the week. Her favorite Annika Sörenstam memory comes from her first Augusta National Women’s Amateur, when she looked behind the first tee and spotted the Hall of Famer watching. Already nervous, she got a small wave and a nod of encouragement from the woman whose name is now on the tournament she’s playing.
The summer and fall that built the case
AmateurGolf.com readers have watched this run take shape since the spring.
It started at Savannah Golf Club, where she won the Southern Women’s Amateur in a playoff over Alana Kutt after both finished at 1-under 215. In July she closed with a birdie to win the 99th LNGA Amateur at Harrison Lake Country Club by one, a result that also clinched the Women’s Elite Amateur Cup as the top performer across the five-event Elite Amateur Golf Series.
A week later, she sat down with us to talk about that summer, the transfer from Texas A&M to Miami and what she was working on before the U.S. Women’s Amateur. Read and watch our breakout-summer interview, then play a hole with her at The Honors Course.
The fall picked up right where the summer left off. She closed with a 67 to win the Boilermaker Classic and lead Miami to the team title, her first college win. Three weeks later she went 67-66-66 at the Golfweek Red Sky Classic in Colorado. Her 17-under 199 is the second-lowest 54-hole total in Miami women’s golf history, and it earned her ACC Golfer of the Month for September. Our full profile of her fast start at Miami connects the summer and fall.
The name has been in our headlines longer than that, too. As a junior in 2024 she reached the final of the Jones/Doherty Amateur and shared the 36-hole lead at the North & South Women’s Amateur.
From the surf to Pelican
Schremmer’s route to an LPGA tee sheet is not a typical one. The Birmingham, Alabama native grew up partly in Hawaii, where she was a three-time under-18 national shortboard surfing champion. Her older sisters, Mason and Lola, went on to surf professionally. She didn’t take golf seriously until around age 12, and she credits her mother for the switch.
The game came quickly. She became a three-time Rolex Junior All-American, played on the winning 2024 U.S. Junior Solheim Cup team, has played twice in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and was named to the USGA’s Elite Amateur Program roster in March.
Her college path took a detour. She started at Texas A&M in fall 2025, transferred to Miami and sat out the spring 2026 season under transfer rules. She used that time to rework parts of her swing with Jim McLean in Miami and to settle in with her new teammates. The results since then speak for themselves.
What to watch this week
The ANNIKA runs Thursday through Sunday, with Golf Channel coverage beginning at 11 a.m. ET on Thursday. The realistic first goal for any amateur in an LPGA field is the weekend, and making the cut in a field that includes 22 of the 24 players from this year’s Solheim Cup would be a statement in its own right.
Schremmer has said she wants to win a U.S. Women’s Open and become the world’s No. 1 player someday. For now, she is a college sophomore with two wins this fall, her mom on the bag and four days to see how her game measures up against the best in the world.
