The six players who will represent the USA in the 2025 World Amateur Team Championships (WATC), to be contested Oct. 1-4 for the women and Oct. 8-11 for the men at Tanah Merah Country Club (Tampines Course) in Singapore, have been finalized.
And one of the players is a Northern California native and Junior Tour of Northern California alumna.
Kiara Romero, now a junior at the University of Oregon, won the 2023 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at the United States Air Force Academy’s Eisenhower Golf Club and became the first Duck to be named the National Freshman of the Year. This year, Romero was also named the 2025 Big Ten women’s golfer of the year and earned first-team All-America honors for a second consecutive season. In May, she recorded the lowest final-round score by an amateur in U.S. Women’s Open history with a Sunday 67 at Erin Hills, and at the U.S. Women’s Amateur earlier this month, she advanced to the quarterfinals before falling in 20 holes.
In 2020, Romero was the JTNC Girls' Player of the Year.
Also being named to the team was Stanford senior Megha Ganne. Gsnne has enjoyed an illustrious amateur career that includes earning low-amateur honors in the 2021 U.S. Women’s Open, representing the USA in the 2022 Curtis Cup Match and helping Stanford to the 2024 NCAA team title. Earlier this month, she captured the Robert Cox trophy in her seventh U.S. Women’s Amateur appearance, winning the 36-hole final 4 and 3 over Brooke Biermann.
