The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Golf’s O’Keefe wins ANNIKA Award
05.26.2026 | Women's Golf
Farah O’Keefe selected as the outstanding female collegiate golfer of the year.
COLUMBUS, Georgia — Farah O'Keefe, the 2026 NCAA individual champion who has won four times this season now adds the title of ANNIKA Award as the Haskins Foundation announced her as the winner of the ANNIKA Award presented by Stifel on Tuesday.
O'Keefe, the No. 1 ranked women's collegiate golfer and No. 4 on the World Amateur Golf Ranking list has finished in the top-10 in each of her 12 college events this season and put an exclamation point on it with a 2-shot victory for the NCAA individual championship on Monday at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. O'Keefe finished the stroke play portion of the NCAA Champion at 12-under with rounds of 69-69-68-70.
"It shows you how amazing this kid is and how hard she works and she has had so many victories this spring," Texas head coach Laura Ianello said yesterday after O'Keefe's NCAA Championship victory. "I think this week going into it with an open mind that she knew it was going to be hard and knew there would be challenging moments, but she struck to her process and played great golf and made a lot of putts and got it done."
O'Keefe was part of Team USA winning the World Amateur Team Championship in October and competed for the third time in the Augusta National Women's Amateur this year. O'Keefe has been named to the Palmer Cup and Curis Cup teams for Team USA later this summer. With the NCAA Championship win she also claimed a spot at the U.S. Women's Open. As a bonus for winning the ANNIKA Award, O'Keefe receives an exemption into The Amundi Evian Championship in France in July.
O'Keefe was the low amateur in at the LPGA major championship, the Chevron Championship along with Yunseo Yang from Korea. Through 54 holes of the championship O'Keefe was T6 on the leaderboard.
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 ANNIKA Award is voted on by current Division I players, coaches, past ANNIKA Award winners, women's golf SID's, and select college golf media members.
