{"id":308895,"date":"2026-05-26T07:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308895\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T07:24:13","slug":"texas-junior-farah-okeefe-caps-breakthrough-season-with-individual-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/308895\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas junior Farah O’Keefe caps breakthrough season with individual national title"},"content":{"rendered":"

Farah O\u2019Keefe rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on her final hole Monday at Omni La Costa Resort, raising her hands in triumph. It wasn\u2019t quite over as she needed to wait for her competitors to finish, but when all the cards were signed, O\u2019Keefe was a national champion.<\/p>\n

The University of Texas junior captured the individual title at the NCAA DI Women\u2019s Golf Championships, finishing at 12 under par.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt makes me emotional talking about the sacrifices that my family has put in so that I could be playing golf at all,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said. \u201cYounger Farah would be really, really happy right now. I think she\u2019d be emotional, too\u201d<\/p>\n

Stanford senior Megha Ganne (70) finished solo second at 10 under. Duke freshman Rianne Malixi (69) was third at 9 under and USC senior Catherine Park (74) fourth at 8 under. Defending champion Maria Jose Marin (70) tied for fifth with Tennessee sophomore Kyra Van Kan (72).<\/p>\n

On a difficult scoring day in Carlsbad, California, O\u2019Keefe made six birdies and four bogeys for a 2-under 70. It\u2019s O\u2019Keefe\u2019s fourth stroke-play win in a breakthrough season that has seen her rise to No. 4 in the Women\u2019s Amateur Golf Rankings. She also tied for low amateur at this year\u2019s Chevron Championship, the LPGA\u2019s first major of the season.<\/p>\n

But, as O\u2019Keefe said, \u201cJob\u2019s not done.\u201d<\/p>\n

Next up is her Longhorns\u2019 bid for a team title in the match-play portion<\/a>, which begins Tuesday. Texas was one of eight teams to advance to the knockout stage, where as a 4-seed they will face No. 5 Eastern Michigan.<\/p>\n

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O’Keefe checks off big goal with women’s NCAA individual title<\/p>\n

University of Texas junior Farah O’Keefe wrote down a lot of bold goals as a kid. She just checked off a big one by winning the 2026 NCAA DI Women’s Golf Championships individual title. Brentley Romine talked to the champ.<\/p>\n

And they will do so with the best player in women\u2019s college golf leading the way. O\u2019Keefe began the final round at Omni La Costa as a co-leader alongside Park. Despite making four bogeys \u2013 two on par 5s \u2013 O\u2019Keefe rolled in six birdies, including on Nos. 17 and 18.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just kept breathing,\u201d O\u2019Keefe said, \u201cand telling myself to get through the next shot.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Austin, Texas, native is the third Longhorn to win a women\u2019s individual title, joining Charlotta Sorenstam (1993) and Heather Bowie (1997).<\/p>\n

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The NCAA Women\u2019s Golf Team Match Play Quarterfinals are underway at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Farah O\u2019Keefe rolled in a 20-foot birdie putt on her final hole Monday at Omni La Costa Resort,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":308896,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-308895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308895\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}