The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women’s Golf’s Farah O’Keefe wins WGCA Player of the Year
05.27.2026 | Women's Golf
O’Keefe wins award presented by Women’s Golf Coaches Association.
FRISCO, Texas — Farah O'Keefe, the 2026 NCAA individual champion who has won four times this season is the 2025-26 PING WGCA Division I Player of the Year, the organization announced on Wednesday.
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.
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.
The Women's Golf Coaches Association, founded in 1983, is a non-profit organization representing women's collegiate golf coaches. The WGCA was formed to encourage the playing of college golf for women in correlation with a general objective of education and in accordance with the highest tradition of intercollegiate competition. Today, the WGCA represents over 750 coaches throughout the U.S. and is dedicated to educating, promoting and recognizing both its members and the student-athletes they represent.
