At Mission Hills Country Club, four amateurs will compete in the historic final major. Since the Chevron Championship began competing against the Augusta National Women’s Amateur three years ago, amateurs have had a smaller presence in the year’s first major.
Amateurs Natasha Andrea Oon, Brooke Seay, Bohyun Park, and Gurleen Kaur are in the Chevron field this year.
Oon is a senior at San Jose State University and is ranked 10th by Golfweek and 17th in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. Only once have the Spartans finished below the top two in seven races this season, and they have twice upset top-ranked Stanford.
WAGR has Park, a freshman at Texas, ranked 39th. Park, a three-time Texas 4A individual state champion, was born in South Korea and has lived in the United States since the age of 13.
Seay, a junior from San Diego, is a human biology major at Stanford University in Palo Alto. In her last three starts for the Cardinal, Seay has three top-five results and is ranked 11th by Golfweek.
Kaur, a three-time All-American at Baylor, is a senior. Kaur, who is coached by major champion Hal Sutton, reached the cut at the Olympic Club’s U.S. Women’s Open last year. WAGR has ranked the Houston resident 81st.
Michelle Wie and Caroline Keggi hold the record for the lowest amateur finish, with fourth places in 2004 and 1988, respectively. Rose Zhang set the record for the lowest 72-hole score by an amateur in 2020, with a score of 8-under 280. Next week, the Stanford standout will participate in Augusta.
The 2023 Chevron Championship will be held in Texas in May. The location is yet to be determined.
