The USGA has announced that Megan Schofill, 22, of Monticello, Fla., has accepted a place on the USA team for the Women’s World Amateur Team Championship, which will take place Oct. 25-28, at Abu Dhabi Golf Club (National Course) in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Schofill earned the final automatic spot on the team by winning the 123rd U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship on Sunday at Bel-Air Country Club in Los Angeles, Calif.
Schofill, currently No. 21 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking®/WAGR®, joins Anna Davis, who earned an exemption onto the team by being the top ranked American in WAGR as of June 21. The team will be captained by Courtney Myhrum, a member of the USGA Executive Committee.
The final team selection, as well as alternates, will be selected by the International Team Selection Working Group upon the conclusion of the U.S. Amateur.
The Women’s World Amateur Team Championship is a biennial international amateur golf competition conducted by the International Golf Federation, consisting of 72 holes of stroke play (18 holes a day over four days). In each round, the total of the two lowest scores by the three players from each team constitutes the team score for that round. The four-day total is the team’s score for the championship. Following a decision by the IGF Administrative Committee in 2020, the 2023 championships will be the first to be held in an odd-numbered year to avoid conflicting with the Summer Olympic Games. In 2022, Sweden won the Espirito Santo Trophy in a tiebreaker over the USA.