Tallahassee, Florida, United States: Mirabel Ting’s magical 2025 has continued with a third US college win of the year.
The Malaysian was peerless in producing a 10-shot victory in the Florida State Match Up. With rounds of 66, 67 and a closing 67 at Seminole Legacy Golf Club, the Florida State student’s 16-under 200 total left her rivals trailing distantly in her wake.
Although she remains third in the World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), Ting’s latest triumph has seen her close the gap on the top two – England’s Lottie Woad, her Florida State team-mate, and American Jasmine Koo.
Given that in her six collegiate stroke play starts in 2024-25 Ting has posted five wins and a tie for sixth, she’s sure to be among the favourites at next week’s Augusta National Women’s Amateur (ANWA).
In January, Ting also showed her prowess in match play when she was a key player in the Asia-Pacific Golf Confederation (APGC) Patsy Hankins Trophy team that defeated their European Golf Association counterparts in the Solheim Cup-style event in the United Arab Emirates.
As well as winning her final-day singles, Ting teamed with Chinese Taipei’s Cindy Hsu Huai-chien to defeat the English duo of Woad and Rhodes Patience in foursomes.
Hsu, meanwhile, has risen six spots to 31st in the WAGR following her runner-up finish in the Betsy Rawls tournament at the University of Texas Golf Course.
Joining Ting and Hsu in the ANWA will be Korean Oh Soo-min.
Runner-up in the seventh Women’s Amateur Asia-Pacific in Vietnam at the start of the month, Oh finished joint third with Thai Pimpisa Rubrong in last week’s Junior Invitational at Sage Valley.
On the back of that performance, Oh has risen to a career-high seventh in the WAGR, while Pimpisa has improved her standing by five positions to 56th.
China’s Liu Yujie also enjoyed a productive week, her second-place finish at Sage Valley seeing her soar 29 spots to 148th.
Two other Asian players making significant moves last week were Japan’s Yurina Hiroyoshi and Thai Anita Lumpongpoung.
Hiroyoshi has risen 103 places to 66th following her victory in the Japan Junior High School Spring Championship.
Lumpongpoung had the distinction of making the biggest rise of the week, up 1,008 spots to 1,462nd after winning the Mizuno West Coast Classic, her second successive victory.
Despite his disappointment at narrowly missing out on winning the boys’ division at Sage Valley for the second year in a row, New Zealander Joshua Bai will take heart from a 31-rung leap to 160th, his highest ever WAGR status.
Robby Turnbull, Bai’s compatriot and Nomura Cup team-mate, is up 56 places to 311th after his fourth-place finish at Sage Valley.
