WA Golf News June 13, 2025

Washington Women’s Amateur and Mid-Amateur being held at Home Course

DuPont, Wash. - The Home Course in DuPont, Wash., will host the 32nd Washington Women’s Amateur and 16th Women’s Mid-Amateur Championships this week. This year marks the third time The Home Course has hosted the Women's Amateur (2017, 2011) and second time it has hosted the Women's Mid-Amateur (2017).

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The Washington Women’s Amateur is the state’s premier amateur championship for women and has historically attracted the region’s best players. The championship is designated as an official USGA Exemption Event, with the winner exempt into the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship field. All that said, several players figure to be in contention come championship week:

Angela Zhang of Bellevue is a two-time champion, and one of the world’s best junior players. Ranked 41st in the Rolex American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) Rankings, her success goes beyond just the Northwest, shown as recently as last week when she notched a wire-to-wire, 54-hole AJGA win at The Wyndham Clark in Colorado. Having finished second in the 2025 Washington Champion of Champions – a championship she’d previously won twice at The Home Course – Zhang has a proven understanding of the layout and is perhaps the favorite. Cienna Lee of Lacey, Wash. defeated Zhang at this year’s Champion of Champions by two strokes, scoring her first WA Golf title in doing so. Currently 140th in the Rolex AJGA Rankings with several more years until her 2028 graduation, Lee figures to have a game that will trend upward. Having found the means to go four-under-par at The Home Course in championship play, her name could be near the top of the leaderboard again this week. Claire Chang of Bellevue is another established junior player, having won the AJGA Junior at Palouse Ridge in Pullman two summers ago. With a top five result at the 2024 Washington State Junior Amateur, her success has shown to extend to WA Golf championships, and a +4.6 handicap cannot deny the U.C. Davis commit’s ability to post low scores. Bonnie Lo of Chinese Taipei is another young player who’s made the most of her junior competition thus far. She recorded a 10th place finish in this year’s Taiwan Amateur Championship, and won the AJGA’s Ann Arbor Preview last summer. Making her first start in a WA Golf championship, Lo will look to carry over that amateur success to DuPont.

Leslie Folsom of Tukwila has a knack for being near the top of the leaderboard. She won the senior women’s division at the Washington Champion of Champions in April, her 21st overall WA Golf title since 2000. Proven success at The Home Course and elsewhere makes Folsom a favorite to add another trophy to her expansive collection. Sue Craven of Snohomish is a two-time WA Golf champion, most recently winning the Senior Women’s Amateur in 2021. She has had a certain level of consistency at The Home Course, notching a third-place run in this year’s Senior Women’s Champion of Champions, to go with a seventh-place finish in that championship’s 2024 iteration. Should Craven’s game be similar, she could well find herself in the Mid-Am mix this week. The Women’s Amateur and Women’s Mid-Amateur are two of the 14 championships conducted annually by WA Golf.

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