{"id":732364,"date":"2026-06-12T18:18:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732364\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T18:18:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T18:18:10","slug":"womens-golfs-okeefe-selected-golfweek-player-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/732364\/","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Golf\u2019s O\u2019Keefe selected Golfweek Player of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

AUSTIN, Texas\u00a0\u2014 Farah O’Keefe<\/a>, the 2026 NCAA individual champion who has won four times this season is the Golfweek Player of the Year, the media outlet announced on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O’Keefe, the No. 1 ranked women’s collegiate golfer and No. 3 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking list has finished in the top-10 in each of her 12 college events this season and put an exclamation point on it with a 2-shot victory for the NCAA individual championship on Monday at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. O’Keefe finished the stroke play portion of the NCAA Champion at 12-under with rounds of 69-69-68-70.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O’Keefe was part of Team USA winning the World Amateur Team Championship in October and competed for the third time in the Augusta National Women’s Amateur this year. O’Keefe has been named to the Palmer Cup and Curis Cup teams for Team USA. With the NCAA Championship win she also claimed a spot at the U.S. Women’s Open. As a bonus for winning the ANNIKA Award, O’Keefe receives an exemption into The Amundi Evian Championship in France in July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

O’Keefe was the low amateur in at the LPGA major championship, the Chevron Championship along with Yunseo Yang from Korea. Through 54 holes of the championship O’Keefe was T6 on the leaderboard. O’Keefe recently competed in her third U.S. Women’s Open and finished T34.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas\u00a0\u2014 Farah O’Keefe, the 2026 NCAA individual champion who has won four times this season is the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-732364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=732364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}