By Tori Schuller
CONCORD, Massachusetts (August 7, 2025) — For the first time in 11 years, the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship is returning to Concord Country Club, with an 80-player field hungry for a win.
This will be the sixth time Concord has hosted the Women’s Amateur, with its most recent Mass Golf Championship hosting experience taking place in 2022, at the Massachusetts Amateur Championship.
Concord first hosted the Women’s Amateur in 1960, with a win from Gene McAuliffe. Its next four hosting opportunities came in 1978, 1997, 2004, and 2014, with wins from Jeanne-Marie Boylan, Karen Richardson, Briana Vega, and Isabel Southard.
The field will fight for the trophy from Monday August 11, to Friday, August 15. The 11th and 12th bring 36 holes of stroke play qualifying, with the field of 80 players vying for 32 match play spots.
On Wednesday, the 13th, the format turns to match play, and the 32-player field will battle for 16 spots in the afternoon, then cut to 8 for the morning of Thursday, the 14th. By the evening of the 14th, after two rounds of match play, the final match will be set; an 18-hole match play battle to take home the trophy for the 122nd Massachusetts Women’s Amateur.
While Concord has been the site of many notable championships recently, the history of the course dates back to 1895, when a group of Concord golfers, led by Moses Bradford, formed the Concord Golf Club. In its inaugural season, nine holes were laid out on land leased from William Wheeler at the foot of Nashawtuc Hill. Memberships were made available at entrance fees of $5.00 with annual dues of the same amount! The following year a clubhouse was built, and the club was welcomed as a member of the USGA, joining other early Massachusetts golf clubs, including The Country Club, Essex County Club, Myopia Hunt Club and Wollaston Golf Club.
For the next fifteen years, the members improved their golf course and added other facilities, including tennis, but were fearful of investing more funds on leased property. When Mr. Wheeler declined an offer from the club to purchase its leased land, a special meeting of the Concord Golf Club in 1913 voted to acquire John Brown’s farm as a permanent home for the new Concord Country Club. Donald Ross, the well-known golf architect, was hired to design a nine-hole course at the new location – the current holes 1, 8, 9 and 13-18. A decade later, Ross returned to design nine additional holes, in the process making Concord Country Club’s new 18 hole-course one of the finest and most difficult in Massachusetts. The course that will greet the contestants during the Women’s Amateur is largely the same course that opened for play in 1930, a testing and demanding example of Donald Ross’ craftsmanship.
Concord presents one of the longest courses by total length in recent years during stroke play (yardage approx.):
2025 — Concord Country Club, Concord (6,016 yards)
2024 — Taconic Golf Club, Williamstown (5,895 yards)
2023 — Dedham Country & Polo Club, Dedham (5,797 yards)
2022 — Orchards Golf Club, South Hadley (6,044 yards)
2021 — Plymouth Country Club, Plymouth (5,884 yards)
2020 — Essex Country Club, Manchester-by-the-Sea (5,975 yards)
2019 — Weston Golf Club, Weston (5,882 yards)
2018 — George Wright Golf Course, Boston (5,901 yards)
A famous trio in the field include Maddie, Morgan, and Molly Smith, three sisters who are excelling in the sport across the country. Maddie is a rising senior at Westford Academy, and is a Fall 2026 commit to the University of Memphis.
Molly, a previous finalist in the 2023 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur, is a rising junior at the University of Central Florida, ending her sophomore season with 3 top-3 finishes. Molly also became the first woman to compete in the Massachusetts Amateur Championship, in 2023.
Earlier this week, Morgan, a member of the women’s golf team at the University of Georgia, competed in the 125th U.S. Women’s Amateur, hosted at Bandon Dunes.
Morgan was joined at the U.S. Women’s Amateur by two previous winners of the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur, Allison Paik (Ledgemont Country Club), and Rebecca Skoler (Pine Brook Country Club). While Paik is not in the field this year, Skoler will be battling for the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship trophy next week.
Skoler recently finished her collegiate career at the University of Virginia, and is in this year’s field for the Women’s Amateur as well, paired with Megan Buck (Thorny Lea Golf Club) and Phoebe Brinker (George Wright Golf Course).
Entering the field alongside Buck is Shannon Johnson (Thorny Lea Golf Club). The pair earned their sixth straight trophy in the Women’s Four-Ball this year, with Buck winning her ninth overall. Johnson earned her first Massachusetts Women’s Amateur trophy in 2018, at George Wright Golf Course.
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August 11 & 12 – Stroke Play (18-holes/day)
August 13 – Round of 32 (a.m.) and Round of 16 (p.m.)
August 14 – Quarterfinals (a.m.) and Semifinals (p.m.)
August 15 – Final Match (18-holes)
THE FIELD
A collection of notable players in the 2025 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur:
*Indicates selection for Team Massachusetts, a group of 16 young Massachusetts golfers selected as a part of the U.S. National Development Program.
PHOEBE BRINKER, 23, a Boston resident and George Wright Golf Course member, is a recent graduate from Duke University. Brinker has made four appearances at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur and is a two-time All-American.
ISABEL BROZENA , 19, a North Reading resident and Indian Ridge Country Club member, is the 2024 winner of the Ouimet Memorial Tournament. Brozena also took home the trophy in the 2024 Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur, defeating Lillian Guleserian in the final match. She also qualified for the 2024 U.S. Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship.
MEGAN BUCK, 37, a North Easton resident and Thorny Lea Golf Club member, earned the 2022 and 2024 Mass Golf Anne Marie Tobin Women’s Player of the Year. She won the Massachusetts Women’s Four-Ball for the Townshend Cup for the sixth time, alongside Shannon Johnson. Buck also won the 2022 and 2024 Massachusetts Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship for the Keyes Cup.
MEKHALA COSTELLO, 19, a Canton resident and Blue Hill Country Club member, is fresh off her first year on the women’s golf team at Amherst College. Her team finished 12th at the 2025 NCAA championships, with Costello leading the team by shooting a 2-over-par 74, and finishing 17th. Costello was the stroke play medalist, and a semifinalist in the 2024 Women’s Amateur and finished 2nd in the 2025 Massachusetts Women’s Stroke Play Championship for the Baker Trophy.
*KAITLYN DOE, 16, a Waban resident and a Needham Golf Club member, finished second in the Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship earlier this year, and advanced to the quarterfinals in 2024. Doe placed second in the 2023 Massachusetts Girls Junior Amateur Championship.
KYLIE EATON, 19, a Greenville, Rhode Island, resident and a KOHR Golf member, won the Rhode Island Women’s Amateur Championship earlier this year and will aim to become the third person in history to win both state amateur titles: Glenna Collett (1921, both) and Noreen Uihlein (MA – 1973, 1980, 1981 – MA; RI – 1978). Eaton, soon to be a sophomore on the Illinois women’s golf team, has placed 7th and T8 in the New England Women’s Amateur the past two years.
*LILLIAN GULESERIAN, 18, a Westwood resident and Blue Hill Country Club member, a Penn State commit, finished 3rd in the New England Women’s Amateur earlier this year. Guleserian, the 2024 Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Player of the Year, also brought home the trophy in the 2023 New England Junior PGA Championship.
JULIA IMAI, 19, a Brookline resident and KOHR Golf member, reached the finals of the 2024 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur with match play victories over Clemson’s Allison Paik and medalist Mekhala Costello. Imai now plays for the University of Wisconsin-Stout, where she won the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference individual title in the fall.
SHANNON JOHNSON, 42, a North Easton resident and Thorny Lea Golf Club member, was the 2020, 2021, and 2023 Anne Marie Tobin Women’s Player of the Year. She won the Massachusetts Women’s Four-Ball for the Townshend Cup for the sixth time. Johnson won the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur title in 2018, going on to win the U.S. Women’s Mid-Amateur Championship later that year. She also made the finals of the Mass Women’s Amateur in 2021 at Plymouth Country Club.
MIA LOMBARDI, 19, a Carlisle resident and Concord Country Club member, is the lone representative of the home course this year. Lombardi is a rising sophomore on the women’s golf team at Trinity College and finished T-23rd in her final conference tournament of the year. Lombardi earned the WGAM/Dolly Sullivan Junior Scholarship as part of the Francis Ouimet Scholarship Fund.
*ERIKA REDMOND, 18, a Concord resident and a MIAA Student Member, is a rising freshman at Merrimack College, and advanced to the round of 16 in the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur Championship. Redmond won the 2025 MIAA Girls’ Golf State Championship and earned Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic Honors.
*SOPHIE REDMOND, 16, a Concord resident and a MIAA Student Member, qualified for match play in 2024 in the Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur Championship, and made it to the quarterfinals in the same tournament this year. She placed 5th in the 2024 New England Junior PGA Championship. Sophie, who placed second in the 2025 MIAA Girls’ Golf State Championship, also earned Boston Herald and Boston Globe All-Scholastic Honors.
CATIE SCHERNECKER, 23, a Chestnut Hill resident and The Country Club member, just finished her senior year playing golf for Harvard University and seeks to reclaim the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur title. Schernecker won the Mass Women’s Amateur in 2021 at Plymouth Country Club and the Ouimet Memorial Tournament in 2022.
REBECCA SKOLER, 23, a Needham resident and Pine Brook Country Club member, is looking for her second win in the Massachusetts Women’s Amateur, after her win in 2023. Skoler just finished her graduate year at the University of Virginia, playing in the NCAA championship this year and also qualifying for the 2025 U.S. Women’s Amateur. She was also finalist in the 2022 Mass Women’s Amateur.
MORGAN SMITH, 21, a Westford resident and Mount Pleasant Golf Club member, is a rising junior at the University of Georgia, and is looking to go back-to-back for her third Women’s Amateur win in the past four years. Smith recently captured her first win in the women’s division at the Ouimet Memorial Tournament.
*MADDIE SMITH, 17, a Westford resident and Mount Pleasant Golf Club member, looks to expand on two championship wins this year: the New England Women’s Amateur and the Massachusetts Girls’ Junior Amateur. Smith was also the stroke-play medalist in the Girls’ Junior and had previously won the 2023 title. She is verbally committed to the University of Memphis for the fall of 2026.
MOLLY SMITH, 20, a Westford resident and Vesper Country Club member, is a rising junior at the University of Central Florida. Smith finished her sophomore season with five top-10 finishes, including three T3 finishes. She was a runner-up in the 2023 Massachusetts Women’s Amateur and played in an epic, 20-hole semifinal last year against her older sister Morgan.
AARYA TSARONG, 11, a Newton resident and MIAA Student member, is the youngest player in the field. She was the 2024 NEPGA JR. Tour Player of the Year and competed in the 2024 Drive, Chip, & Putt National Final at Augusta National. She is also the great-grandniece of the 14th Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism.
All competitors in the field will compete in two 18-hole rounds over the first two days of competition. The low 32 scorers will advance to match play beginning Wednesday, August 13.
AWARDS: Stroke Play Medalist – Osgood Memorial Cup | Amateur Champion – Championship Bowl | Amateur Finalist – Curtis Memorial Trophy.
SPECTATORS AMENITIES: Admission throughout the event is FREE OF CHARGE for the general public. Restrooms are also available in the clubhouse and at any of the on-course restrooms.
FOLLOW ALONG: To help spectators and other individuals keep up with the action, starting times and live scoring links are always available on MassGolf.org through Golf Genius.
Starting Times & Live Scoring: massgolf.org/scoreboards/2025-womens-amateur
The Concord Country Club will be set up at approximately 6,016 yards and will play to a par of 72.
CONCORD COUNTRY CLUB HOLE BY HOLE
| Hole | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | Total |
| Par | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 36 |
| Yards | 463 | 380 | 367 | 359 | 445 | 180 | 325 | 342 | 132 | 2,993 |
| Hole | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | Total |
| Par | 4 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 36 – 72 |
| Yards | 395 | 360 | 160 | 343 | 356 | 141 | 440 | 500 | 328 | 3,023 – 6,016 |
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