With very few editions under its belt, only eight in fact, the Augusta National Women's Amateur has burst onto the scene of women's amateur golf with enormous force, to the point that it is challenging the most established and prestigious tournaments for the title of best women's amateur competition in the world.

The ANWA organizers have two highly valued advantages in the world of golf: the final round is played annually in Augusta, home of the Masters, with the impressive mystique that this generates, and the best amateur players in the world at any given time come to compete, without any discussion in this respect.

A truly remarkable 2026 edition

To understand this a little better, one only needs to review how the 2026 edition of this Augusta National Women's Amateur is presented, which has the participation of four Spanish women with great prestige accumulated based on their excellent results: Cayetana Fernández, Paula Martín, Andrea Revuelta and Rocío Tejedo, responsible for many of the recent successes of Spanish amateur golf.

None of them will find it easy to repeat the glory achieved by Carla Bernat in 2025, starting with the fact that the current US Women's Amateur champion, Megha Ganne, is participating, among others, and will be attending this already legendary event, which takes place during the month of April, for the sixth time in her career.

Megha Ganne is the guiding light of a sensational field of 72 golfers, including 48 of the top 50 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking. This figure is just shy of the 49 out of 50 who participated in the ANWA last year, which was the largest number of Top 50 players ever to compete in the same tournament in women's golf history.

The anticipation is palpable, attracting global attention thanks to the participation of golfers representing 23 different countries from every continent. Last year's winner, Spain's Carla Bernat, is now a professional, but runners-up Asterisk Talley and Kiara Romero (the world's number one amateur) return in 2026 aiming to climb another spot in the rankings. 

The prestige is so great that two previous winners, Japan's Tsubasa Kajitani (2021) and the United States' Anna Davis (2022), are also returning, seeking to become the first to win the Augusta National Women's Tournament multiple times. 

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As mentioned earlier, another prominent competitor in this 2026 edition is Megha Ganne, who is making her sixth (and likely final) appearance at the ANWA. She is well known to the Spanish athletes Andrea Revuelta and Paula Martín, who are teammates at Stanford University and plan to turn professional after the end of the collegiate season this spring. 

Remember that the first two rounds of the 2026 ANWA will be played at the Champions Retreat Golf Club on April 1st and 2nd. The top 30 players and ties after those 36 holes will advance to the final round after earning the coveted right to play at Augusta National on Saturday, April 4th. These 30 privileged golfers will also play a practice round at Augusta National the day before the final round begins.

For those who are curious, it should be noted that the two players in the Top 50 of the World Amateur Ranking who will not be competing are Shiyuan Zhou (number 21), who turned professional a few weeks before the ANWA, and Louise Uma Landgraf (number 42), who climbed 24 places in the World Amateur Ranking to break into the top 50 after her recent victory at the Women's Portugal International.

Good Spanish story at ANWA

In the first edition of the tournament, in 2019, the Spanish performance, very notable, was carried out by Ainhoa Olarra from San Sebastián and Marta Pérez from Valencia, who finished in 13th and 21st place, respectively, and who experienced a historic moment given that the third and final round of competition was played at the aforementioned Augusta National, which for the first time opened to a women's competition.

In 2021, Ana Peláez bowed out with a magnificent feeling: she finished twelfth, with the added merit of overcoming a lackluster second day (79). Carolina López-Chacarra also took part in the event, failing to make the cut, a situation repeated by both López-Chacarra herself and Carla Bernat in 2022.

Things went much better for Cayetana Fernández in the 2023 edition, when the Madrid golfer finished in fourth place, the best Spanish performance up to that point, while in 2024 Carla Bernat, seventeenth, was the best in an edition that featured a record: seven Spanish golfers. Then came the 2025 edition and Carla Bernat's historic victory, completing the ecstasy of winning the ANWA.