The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Golf’s Farah O’Keefe, Lauren Kim named to fall ANNIKA Award Watch List
09.04.2024 | Women's Golf
O’Keefe and Kim earned All-America honors in their first season in Austin.
AUSTIN, Texas — Farah O'Keefe and Lauren Kim earned spots on the Fall ANNIKA Award Watch List presented by Stifel as the Haskins Foundation announced the list on Wednesday.
O'Keefe earned All-America honors from the Women's Golf Coaches Association and Golfweek in her freshman season. O'Keefe, the Big 12 Player and Freshman of the Year, had four top-five finishes in collegiate events in the 2023-24 season and had a scoring average of 71.1. She carded rounds of par or better in 20 of her 28 stroke play rounds and had a 3-0 record in match play. At the NCAA Champion at Omni La Costa, O'Keefe carded a round of 6-under 66 in her second round to tie the UT women's golf program record for low round in an NCAA Championship. Over the summer O'Keefe was part of Team USA for the Palmer Cup and won the Western Amateur.
Kim earned All-America honorable mention honors in the 2023-24 season and was a unanimous selection to the All-Big 12 Team. Kim shot 15 rounds at par or better this season and had an adjusted stroke average of 70.5. Kim was the individual medalist at the Jackson T Stephens Cup and finished T3 at the Big 12 Championship. Kim qualified and played in the 2022 and 2023 U.S. Open and was the 2023 Canadian Women's Amateur Champion. Kim competed at the 2024 Augusta National Women's Amateur. Kim won the Peloton Glencoe Invitational over the summer.
Created in 2014, the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel is annually given to the top female Division 1 collegiate golfer; the winner voted on by players, coaches and members of the college golf media. Named for Annika Sorenstam, the award was created in partnership with the Haskins Foundation to acknowledge the top female golfer and to match the Haskins Award presented by Stifel, which acknowledges the top male Division I collegiate golfer.
The Longhorns open the 2024-25 season with the Folds of Honor Collegiate in Grand Haven, Mich., Sept. 9-11.
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