Oklahoma State University Athletics
Yu-Chu Chen to represent Taiwan at 2025 World Amateur Team Championships
September 24, 2025 | Cowgirl Golf
STILLWATER – Oklahoma State freshman Yu-Chu Chen has been named to the Taiwan Women's National Team for the 31st World Amateur Team Championships.
The biennial tournament takes place next week, Oct. 1-4, at the Tanah Merah Country Club in Singapore. Thirty-six countries will send a three-player team to compete in the 4-round, 72-hole stroke play event. Each round, the team's two lowest scores will count toward its daily score. The country with the lowest total 72-hole score is crowned champion and receives the Espirito Santo Trophy.
Since 2000, Cowgirl golfers have combined for 22 total national team selections at the event.
Cowgirls at the World Amateur Team Championships (Country - Year)
- Yu-Chu Chen (Taiwan - 2025)
- Maddison Hinson-Tolchard (Australia - 2023, 2022)
- Cecile Leth-Nissen (Denmark - 2023)
- Caley McGinty (England - 2023, 2022)
- Emma Broze (France - 2018)
- Sifat Sagoo (India - 2018)
- Rina Tatematsu (Thailand - 2018)
- Isabella Fierro (Mexico - 2016)
- Caroline Hedwall (Sweden - 2010, 2008)
- Pernilla Lindberg (Sweden - 2008)
- Caroline Masson (Germany - 2008, 2006)
- Eyglo Myrra Oskarsdottir (Iceland - 2008)
- Laura Matthews (Canada - 2006, 2004, 2002)
- Karin Sjodin (Sweden - 2004, 2002)
- Maria Bodén (Sweden - 2000)
Chen, a Kaohsiung native, joins a Taiwan squad that finished runner-up at the 2023 tournament in Abu Dhabi. The freshman boasts an impressive amateur resume in her home country, with wins at the Taiwan Amateur Championship (Apr. 9-12, 2024) and National Winter Tournament (Nov. 26-29, 2024). Additionally, Chen is a two-time Rolex Junior All-American (2024, 2023) and climbed as high as No. 26 in the Rolex AJGA rankings.
In her first semester at Oklahoma State, Chen has played in both of the team's first two fall tournaments, posting a stroke average of 74 through six rounds.
For more information about the tournament, visit https://www.igfgolf.org/world-amateur-team-championships/singapore-2025.
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