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\nLSU women’s golfers Ryleigh Knaub and Raegan Denton are competing this week in the 126th U.S. Women’s Amateur near Chattanooga, Tennessee. (LSU photo).<\/p>\n
\nLSU women’s golfers Ryleigh Knaub and Raegan Denton are competing this week in the 126th U.S. Women’s Amateur near Chattanooga, Tennessee. (LSU photo).<\/p>\n
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Two members of the LSU women\u2019s golf team teed off Tuesday in one of America\u2019s most famous amateur events, the 126th United States Women\u2019s Amateur at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee, near Chattanooga.<\/p>\n
Ryleigh Knaub<\/a>, who had a very good freshman season at LSU in 2025-26, and incoming freshman\u00a0Raegan Denton<\/a>\u00a0were competing in the first of two stroke play rounds on Tuesday that will determine the top 64 players who will advance to match play, beginning on Thursday.<\/p>\n A total of 1,422 entries were accepted for the event and after invitees and qualifying events, the field is set at 156 competitors that will tackle the par-72, 6,539-yard course designed by the legendary Pete Dye that opened in 1983.<\/p>\n Knaub had three top 10s for the Tigers as a freshman in helping the team make its sixth consecutive NCAA championship appearance in 2026. She finished fourth in the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate with three rounds of 1-under 70 and a third place tie finish in the ULM Invitational with three consecutive rounds of 3-under 69. She averaged 72.22 for 27 rounds this past year.<\/p>\n Denton has traveled through most of the United States and Canada this summer playing in some of the top amateur events in preparation for the women\u2019s amateur. That included a victory in the Pacific Northwest Women\u2019s Amateur Championship last month.\u00a0She also had top 10 finishes in the Western Amateur, the North South and the Women\u2019s Southern Georgia Amateur. In April she finished fourth in her first appearance in the Augusta National Women\u2019s Amateur Championship. She enters the U.S. Women\u2019s Amateur ranked 47th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings.\u00a0<\/p>\n LSU players have had success in the Women\u2019s Amateur with Shreveport\u2019s\u00a0Meredith Duncan<\/a>\u00a0capturing the Robert Cox Trophy in a tense win on the first extra hole in the 2001 event in Wichita, Kansas.\u00a0Austin Ernst<\/a>\u00a0was a semifinalist in the 2011 Women\u2019s Amateur and most recently,\u00a0Latanna Stone<\/a>, advanced all the way to the final match in 2023.<\/p>\n Television coverage of the event begins on Thursday with coverage of the round of 64-matches on the Golf Channel at 10 a.m. central. The 36-hole championship match is Sunday.<\/p>\n Related Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LSU women’s golfers Ryleigh Knaub and Raegan Denton are competing this week in the 126th U.S. Women’s Amateur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":802875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,340793,3,340794,340795,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-802874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-lsu-womens-golf","tag-news","tag-raegan-denton","tag-ryleigh-knaub","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=802874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/802874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/802875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=802874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=802874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=802874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}