LSU Golfer Rocio Tejedo, Incoming Freshman Raegan Denton Start Play Wednesday at ANWA
BATON ROUGE – LSU sophomore Rocio Tejedo and incoming freshman Raegan Denton will take part in the 2026 edition of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur which begins on Wednesday.
The event, one of the premier women’s amateur golf tournaments, features 72 of the world’s best golfers in a 54-hole event which begins with two rounds at Champions Retreat on Wednesday and Thursday located in the Augusta, Georgia suburb of Evans. The tournament is conducted over the Arnold Palmer designed Island nine and Jack Nicklaus’ Bluff nine.
The top 30 and ties advance to the famed home of the Masters, Augusta National, for the chance to play for the ANWA title. The entire field gets to play a practice round over the famed layout on Friday before the Saturday finale.
The first 36 holes will be televised on The Golf Channel with coverage Wednesday and Thursday from 12:30-2:30 p.m. CDT. Saturday’s final round is set for NBC coverage from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CDT.
Rocio Tejedo, from Castellon, Spain, is making her third appearance in the ANWA and is looking to break through to the final round for the first time. She finished runner-up in the 2025 SEC Women’s Championship as a freshman. The sister of former Tiger and now LPGA member Carla Tejedo, reached the round of 16 in the 2024 U.S. Women’s Amateur and quarterfinals of the 2023 R&A Girls’ Amateur.
Rocio, ranked 47th in the World Amateur Golf Rankings, represented Spain in the Junior Solheim Cup and the Junior Ryder Cup in 2023.
Tejedo was named SEC Freshman of the Year in 2025 and first-team All-SEC. At Pelican Golf Club in Belleair, Florida for the SEC Championships, she posted rounds of 66-72-67 on the par 70 course for a 5-under 205.
Denton, who signed with the Tigers back in the November signing period and will participate with the Tigers beginning in the 2026-27 season, is ranked No. 43 presently in the WAGR. She will be making her first appearance in the ANWA, but has had eight wins in the last two years, including three consecutive to end 2025 and start 2026.
One of those victories was the Women’s Australian Master of the Amateurs event in which she had rounds of 75-66-71-75 for a 287 to win by a stroke over American Catherine Park.
Denton, who hails from Adelaide, Australia, is expected to have highly regarded Golf Australia High Performance Manager Adrian Wickstein on the bag as her caddy. He caddied for Denton at the USGA Junior Girls Championship this past July when she made match play.
Both Tejedo and Denton will be off in the early wave of players in the opening round on Wednesday with Tejedo off in the second group off the first tee at 7:12 a.m. CDT with Catherine Rao of the United States who has played for Princeton but signed with Oregon for the fall of 2026 earlier this year. The third member of that group will be Charlotte Back of Germany, who plays for Arizona.
Denton is off about a half hour later at 7:46 a.m. CDT, paired with Nikki Oh of the United States (No. 11 on the AJGA rankings from Torrance, California) and Elise Lee, also of the United States and a sophomore on the USC women’s golf team.
Live scoring for the event can be found at anwagolf.com.