EVANS, Ga. – Megha Ganne firmly believes in speaking things into existence, so before teeing off in her fifth Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday at Champions Retreat, Ganne kept telling herself the story that she wanted to see.
This one was Pulitzer worthy.
“I had a feeling I was going to go low today,” Ganne said, “but not this low.”
Ganne, a junior at Stanford, fired a 9-under 63 to smash the 18-hole scoring record at Champions Retreat, which annually hosts the first two rounds of this tournament, and take a two-shot lead over defending champion Lottie Woad, the Florida State junior who shot 65, which would’ve tied the previous low mark set by Rose Zhang, who posted her 65 in the second round of her 2023 victory.