A year after winning CGA Women’s Stroke Play and making her debut at the U.S. Women’s Amateur, Ashley Kozlowski qualifies for her 2nd Women’s Am
By Gary Baines – 7/15/2025
A year ago, then-Coloradan Ashley Kozlowski qualified for her first U.S. Women’s Amateur by virtue of winning the CGA Women’s Stroke Play — the 2025 edition of which is taking place this week at Eisenhower Golf Club at the Air Force Academy.
Kozlowski, the 2024 CGA Women’s Player of the Year, has since moved to Florida for a job and her tournament golf has been very limited. But on Monday in Jacksonville, the Purdue graduate took a different route to punching a ticket into her second U.S. Women’s Am.
Despite hitting her opening tee shot out of bounds and making a bogey on that hole, the Rock Canyon High School graduate and former Littleton resident shot a 3-under-par 69 at Deerwood Country Club to earn medalist honors in U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifying. The top two players out of a field of 36 at the site advance to the national championship, set for Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Bandon, Ore., Aug. 4-10.
In Monday’s qualifier, Kozlowski made six birdies — including on each of her last two holes — to go along with three bogeys. Caddying for her was her brother, Blake, who also recently moved to Florida.
Last year in her U.S. Women’s Am debut at Southern Hills in Tulsa, Kozlowski fell a shot shy of a playoff to determine the final berths into the match-play portion of the event.
Last week, a U.S. Women’s Amateur qualifier was held in Colorado — at Indian Peaks Golf Course, and both of the players who advanced were from out of state — Rylee Salome of New Mexico, the 2025 CGA Women’s Match Play champion, and Maya McVey from Missouri, an incoming University of Colorado golfer.
For scores from the Jacksonville qualifier for the U.S. Women’s Am, CLICK HERE.
About the Writer: Gary Baines has covered golf in Colorado continuously since 1983. He was a sports writer at the Daily Camera newspaper in Boulder, then the sports editor there, and has written regularly for ColoradoGolf.org since 2009. The University of Colorado Evans Scholar alum was inducted into the Colorado Golf Hall of Fame in 2022. He owns and operates ColoradoGolfJournal.com