Rose Zhang, two past champs highlight initial 70-player Augusta National Women's Amateur field

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The top 45 eligible players in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking have accepted invitations for the 2023 Augusta National Women’s Amateur.

In total, 70 players have committed to the March 29-April 1 championship at Champions Retreat (first 36 holes) and Augusta National Golf Club (final round). They include two past champions, last year’s winner Anna Davis and 2021 champ Tsubasa Kajitani, as well as world No. 1 Rose Zhang.

The 2023 edition of the ANWA will include two new wrinkles: The 36-hole cut will now be made to the top 30 and ties, and the first two rounds at Champions Retreat will be broadcast live on Golf Channel while NBC Sports continues to broadcast the final round at Augusta National.

That news follows an earlier announcement that the ANWA winner would now receive an additional major exemption, into the Chevron Championship, which starting this year will be contested over new dates, April 20-23, and at a new venue, The Club at Carlton Woods in The Woodland, Texas. With the addition of the Chevron invite, the ANWA winner will be awarded three major exemptions, the U.S. Women’s Open and AIG Women’s Open being the others.

Here’s a look at the initial 70-player field listed in order of WAGR rank from 2022’s final ranking:

1 – Rose Zhang
2 – Ingrid Lindblad
3 – Saki Baba
4 – Rin Yoshida
5 – Rachel Heck
6 – Amari Avery
7 – Hannah Darling
8 – Rachel Kuehn
9 – Anna Davis
10 – Sayaka Teraoka
11 – Yuna Araki
12 – Cayetana Fernandez Garcia-Poggio
13 – Helen Briem
13 – Carolina Lopez-Chacarra
14 – Meja Ortengren
15 – Jiyoo Lim
16 – Minsol Kim
17 – Hinano Muguruma
18 – Mizuki Hashimoto
21 – Tsubasa Kajitani
22 – Emilia Migliaccio
24 – Mamika Shinchi
25 – Caley McGinty
26 – Charlotte Heath
28 – Jensen Castle
29 – Bohyun Park
30 – Andrea Lignell
31 – Cynthia Lu
33 – Julia Lopez Ramirez
34 – Fiona Xu
35 – Yahui Zhang
37 – Amelia Williamson
38 – Carolina Melgrati
39 – Jenny Bae
40 – Caitlyn Macnab
41 – Nika Ito
42 – Lottie Woad
43 – Brooke Seay
44 – Ting-Hsuan Huang
45 – Miku Ueta
46 – Megan Schofill
47 – Kajsa Arwefjall
48 – Chiara Tamburlini
49 – Amanda Sambach
50 – Jeneath Wong
54 – Bailey Shoemaker
56 – Maria Jose Marin
59 – Justice Bosio
59 – Megha Ganne
62 – Erica Shepherd
63 – Anna Morgan
66 – Phoebe Brinker
67 – Latanna Stone
70 – Antonia Malate
72 – Gianna Clemente
74 – Yana Wilson
82 – Ashley Menne
84 – Laney Frye
86 – Julia Johnson
89 – Briana Chacon
93 – Maisie Filler
95 – Jennie Park
96 – Sabrina Iqbal
98 – Kendall Griffin
106 – Monet Chun
113 – Jennifer Cleary
114 – Crystal Wang
118 – Anne Chen
143 – Jess Baker
173 – Kaitlyn Schroeder

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Rose Zhang, two past champs highlight initial 70-player Augusta National Women’s Amateur field