Alyaa Abdulghany, 21, of Malaysia

Instagram: @alyaa.abdulghany

• No. 34 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her seventh USGA championship (fourth U.S. Women’s Amateur)
• Rising senior at the University of Southern California
• Earned WGCA All-America honorable mention as a sophomore and junior
• Reached the semifinals in the inaugural (2015) U.S. Women’s Amateur Four-Ball partnered with Ellen Takada
• Won the 2019 SCGA Women’s Amateur Championship
• Won the 2020 Australian Master of the Amateurs Championship
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 73-71—144 in stroke play to earn the No. 13 seed
  • R64: Def. Kristy Hodgkins, 4 and 2
  • R32: Def. Marissa Kirkwood, 4 and 2
  • R16: Def. Ellie Slama, 2 up

Emilia Migliaccio, 21, of Cary, N.C.

Instagram: @13emilia

• No. 4 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her second USGA championship, first U.S. Women’s Amateur
• Rising senior at Wake Forest University
• Earned WGCA First-Team All-America honors the last two seasons
• Has collected five individual collegiate titles
• Competed in the 2018 U.S. Women’s Open in Shoal Creek, Ala.
• Won two gold medals for the United States at the 2019 Pan American Games in the women's individual competition and the men's and women's combined team competition
• Wrote and published a romance novel, “Just an Illusion,” in September 2018 and has two more novels in the making
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 71-71—142 in stroke play to earn the No. 3 seed
  • R64: Def. Gurleen Kaur, 3 and 1
  • R32: Def. Amari Avery, 3 and 2
  • R16: Def. Megan Schofill, 22 holes

Valery Plata, 19, of Colombia

Instagram: @vplatap

• No. 151 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her seventh USGA championship (second U.S. Women’s Amateur)
• Rising junior at Michigan State University
• Named 2020 Big Ten Player of the Year and was a WGCA All-America honorable mention as a sophomore
• Reached the quarterfinals of the 2018 U.S. Girls’ Junior at Poppy Hills G.C. in Pebble Beach, Calif.
• Earned the gold medal at the 2017 Youth South American Games 
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 71-71—142 in stroke play to earn the No. 2 seed
  • R64: Def. Haylin Harris, 3 and 1
  • R32: Def. Zoe Antoinette Campos, 2 up
  • R16: Def. Tyler Akabane, 3 and 2

Gabriela Ruffels, 20, of Australia

Instagram: @gabiruffels

• No. 16 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Won the 2019 U.S. Women’s Amateur at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss.
• Playing in her fourth USGA championship (second U.S. Women’s Amateur)
• Rising senior at the University of Southern California
• Became the first woman ever to tee off in the Jacksonville Amateur this July
• Won the 2019 North & South Women’s Amateur Championship in Pinehurst, N.C.
• Competed in the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Charleston in Charleston, S.C.
• Played tennis at an international level for eight years before starting golf at age 15
• Both of her parents, Ray Ruffels and Anna-Maria Fernandez, played tennis professionally
• Her older brother, Ryan, currently competes as a professional golfer on various tours
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 72-71—143 in stroke play to earn the No. 6 seed
  • R64: Def. Kajal Mistry, 3 and 2
  • R32: Def. Lei Ye, 2 up
  • R16: Def. Teresa Toscano Borrero, 4 and 2

Riley Smyth, 20, of Cary, N.C.

Instagram: @riley_smyth

• No. 304 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her first USGA championship
• Rising junior at the University of Virginia
• In 2019, finished runner-up at the Carolinas Women’s Match Play and Carolinas Amateur
• Had two hip surgeries during her final two years of high school
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 68-75—143 in stroke play to earn the No. 5 seed
  • R64: Def. Katherine Zhu, 1 up
  • R32: Def. Addie Baggarly, 1 up
  • R16: Def. Lauren Beaudreau, 21 holes

Kennedy Swann, 21, of Austin, Texas

Instagram: @ken.you.dig.it

• No. 125 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her third USGA championship (first U.S. Women’s Amateur)
• Returning for her fifth year of eligibility at the University of Mississippi
• Pursuing a master’s degree in business administration
• Named to the All-SEC Second Team as a senior with a win at the 2019 Illini Invitational at Medinah
• Won the 2018 CGA Women’s Match Play Championship
• Has gone skydiving in Tahiti, whitewater rafting in Costa Rica and hiked the Fimmvorduhals Trek in Iceland
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 75-71—146 in stroke play to earn the No. 23 seed
  • R64: Def. Aline Krauter, 2 and 1
  • R32: Def. Bohyun Park, 2 and 1
  • R16: Def. Isabella Fierro, 2 and 1

Kaleigh Telfer, 22, of South Africa

Instagram: @kaytelfer

• No. 49 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her first USGA championship
• Rising senior at Auburn University
• 2020 Women’s Golf Coaches Association (WGCA) First-Team All-American
• Won the 2020 Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge for her second collegiate title
• Finished in the top 20 of all seven events of her junior season
• Represented South Africa at the World Amateur Team Championship in 2016 and 2018
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 71-75—146 in stroke play to earn the No. 24 seed
  • R64: Def. Talia Campbell, 6 and 5
  • R32: Def. Emily Mahar, 20 holes
  • R16: Def. Rachel Kuehn, 2 and 1

Rose Zhang, 17, of Irvine, Calif.

Instagram: @rose135z

• No. 9 in Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking
• Playing in her sixth USGA championship (third U.S. Women’s Amateur)
• Verbally committed to attend Stanford University in 2021
• Made the cut and tied for 55th in the 2019 U.S. Women’s Open at the Country Club of Charleston (S.C.)
• Reached the quarterfinals of the 2019 U.S. Girls’ Junior at SentryWorld in Stevens Point, Wis.
• Won a gold medal as a member of the United States team at the 2019 Pan American Games
• Won the 2019 AJGA Rolex Tournament of Champions by 11 strokes
• Road to the Quarterfinals
  • Shot 74-71—145 in stroke play to earn the No. 16 seed
  • R64: Def. Anna Morgan, 5 and 3
  • R32: Def. Maria Bohorquez, 2 up
  • R16: Def. Rachel Heck, 1 up