{"id":513520,"date":"2026-04-05T02:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513520\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T02:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T02:24:08","slug":"what-you-get-for-winning-the-augusta-national-womens-amateur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/513520\/","title":{"rendered":"What you get for winning the Augusta National Women’s Amateur"},"content":{"rendered":"

While there\u2019s no Green Jacket for winning the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur<\/a>, there are plenty of other perks.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s winner, Carla Bernat Escuder, got the chance to play in four of the LPGA\u2019s five major championships after her breakthrough victory over Asterisk Talley<\/a>. Her best finish was a tie for 58th at Royal Porthcawl at the AIG Women\u2019s Open Championship.<\/p>\n

The win also catapulted Escuder to a great start to her professional career, which she began after her major exemptions ran out. She made the cut in her first LPGA professional start at the CPKC Women\u2019s Open last August and is now fighting for full-time status on the Epson Tour, where she ranks 14th early in the season-long \u201cRace for the Card.\u201d<\/p>\n

Previous ANWA winners after also used the victory to jump-start their professional careers. Both Rose Zhang (2023)<\/a> and Lottie Woad (2024)<\/a> won in their debuts as professionals on the LPGA Tour. Meanwhile, inaugural champion Jennifer Kupchao remains the only former ANWA champ to earn a major victory, doing so at the 2022 ANA Inspiration.<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a list of all the tournaments the 2026 champion will gain entry into:<\/p>\n

-The next five Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateurs (2027-2031)
-The 2026 U.S. Women\u2019s Open
-The 2026 AIG Women\u2019s Open
-The 2026 Chevron Championship
-The 2026 Evian Championship
-Any USGA, R&A and PGA of America amateur championships for which she is eligible (i.e. the U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur and R&A Women\u2019s Amateur)<\/p>\n

All of these exemptions remain conditional on the champion remaining an amateur.<\/p>\n

In addition, the champion also receives the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur trophy, which was designed by Tiffany and Co. and is made from sterling silver.<\/p>\n

Lastly, the champion also receives valuable World Amateur Golf Ranking points and LPGA LEAP points.\u00a0The LPGA\u2019s LEAP program<\/a>\u00a0was announced last year and is similar to the PGA Tour University program, which awards college players points to help them earn PGA Tour membership upon graduation.<\/p>\n

The winner earns two LPGA LEAP points. Last year, while Woad was unable to defend her title, she earned her LPGA membership by way of the LEAP program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While there\u2019s no Green Jacket for winning the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur, there are plenty of other perks.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-513520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-golf","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=513520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}