Amelia Garvey

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Amelia Garvey
Personal information
Full nameAmelia Rose Garvey
Born (2000-06-02) 2 June 2000 (age 25)
Manchester, England
Height5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Sporting nationalityFlag of New Zealand.svg  New Zealand
Residence Christchurch, New Zealand
Career
College University of Southern California
Turned professional2021
Current tour(s) Ladies European Tour (joined 2025)
Epson Tour (joined 2022)
Best results in LPGA major championships
Chevron Championship DNP
Women's PGA C'ship DNP
U.S. Women's Open T58: 2024
Women's British Open CUT: 2025
Evian Championship DNP

Amelia Rose Garvey (born 2 June 2000) is a New Zealand professional golfer and Ladies European Tour player. She was runner-up at the 2019 Women's Amateur Championship, and at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship in 2023 and 2024 on the Epson Tour. [1]

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Early life and amateur career

Garvey was born in Manchester, England and moved to New Zealand with her family when she was five years old, and was raised in Christchurch. [2] She began playing golf in 2006 when she was six. [1] In 2017, she was runner-up at the Faldo Series Asia Grand Final and South Australia Junior Amateur Championship, and won the New Zealand Women's Stroke Play Championship. [3]

She was runner-up at the 2019 The Women's Amateur Championship at Royal County Down, losing the final to Emily Toy, 1 up. [4]

Garvey represented New Zealand internationally at the 2015 Junior Golf World Cup in Japan, the 2017 Queen Sirikit Cup in China and the 2018 Espirito Santo Trophy in Ireland. She won the 2019 Astor Trophy in Canada, beating a British team with Alice Hewson, Lily May Humphreys, Olivia Mehaffey and Emily Toy. [5]

Garvey attended the University of Southern California from 2018 to 2021. Playing with the USC Trojans women's golf team, she was a three-time All-American and two-time All-Pac-12 first team selection. She played in the NCAA Championship three times, finishing 7th as a freshman. She helped USC win two Pac-12 titles, and in 2021 was runner-up at the Pac-12 Championship behind Rachel Heck, and earned an invitation to the Augusta National Women's Amateur Championship. [6]

Professional career

Garvey turned professional in 2021 and joined the Epson Tour in 2022. [7] She was runner-up at the FireKeepers Casino Hotel Championship in 2023 and again in 2024, a stroke behind Cassie Porter. [8]

In 2024, during the final round of the Royal St Cloud Women's Championship on the NXXT Women's Pro Tour in Florida, Garvey made history being the first professional golfer to record a par, birdie, eagle, hole in one, and albatross all in one round, a one in 4.5 trillion likelihood. [9] She also had a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and a 6 on her scorecard. [10]

She made her 4th U.S. Women's Open appearance in 2024 at the Lancaster Country Club, and made the cut. [11]

After three years on the Epson Tour, Garvey joined the Ladies European Tour in 2025 after earning a card by finishing 4th at Q-School. [12]

Amateur wins

Source: [3]

Results in LPGA majors

Tournament202020212022202320242025
Chevron Championship
U.S. Women's Open CUTCUTCUTT58
Women's PGA Championship
The Evian Championship
Women's British Open CUT
  Did not play

CUT = missed the half-way cut
T = tied

Team appearances

Amateur

References

  1. 1 2 "Player profile Amelia Garvey". Ladies European Tour. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  2. ↑ Idour, Neville (12 February 2024). "Life on tour with Amelia Garvey". Pacific Golfer. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  3. 1 2 "Amelia Garvey". World Amateur Golf Ranking. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  4. ↑ "The Womens Amateur Championship 2019". The R&A. Retrieved 24 June 2022.
  5. ↑ "New Zealand women's golf team create history by winning Astor Trophy". stuff.co.nz. 2 September 2019.
  6. ↑ "Women's Golf Roster: Amelia Garvey". University of Southern California Athletics. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  7. ↑ "Amelia Garvey Ready to Take on the Golfing World". New Zealand Golf Magazine. 13 July 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  8. ↑ "Amelia Garvey Bio". Epson Tour. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  9. ↑ "Kiwi golfer Amelia Garvey's 4.5 trillion-to-one round in the United States". stuff.co.nz. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  10. ↑ "Kiwi golfer Amelia Garvey records albatross, ace and eagle in freakish round". The New Zealand Herald. 4 March 2024. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
  11. ↑ "Player Bio: Amelia Garvey". USGA. Retrieved 13 April 2025.
  12. ↑ Idour, Neville (6 January 2025). "New horizons for Amelia Garvey". Pacific Golfer. Retrieved 12 April 2025.
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