How Stanford has taken over the Augusta National Women’s Amateur
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Andrea Revuelta’s keys and eyeglasses spill onto the marble table as she sits down to join her teammate. It’s the last day of finals week here at Stanford, and when Revuelta explains she is hours away from her economics exam, a cloud of stress momentarily lingers in the air.
Teammate Meja Örtengren, seated to her left, allows a sliver of a smile to emerge on her face while all of this is happening. And it’s not hard to figure out why. Örtengren finished her exams yesterday.
Sweet, sweet relief. The two sophomores are days away from their spring break, but the time off will look different for them and for the majority of the rest of Stanford women’s golf. Revuelta, who hails from Madrid, and Örtengren, who grew up in Sweden, are two of the five women on the roster who are playing in the seventh annual Augusta National Women’s Amateur, which begins Wednesday with the final round on Saturday.
It’s time for them to turn their attention to a grander stage, one that they physically can’t stop thinking about every spring. “We talk about post-ANWA depression,” Revuelta says. “It should be diagnosed.
I personally wore green for two weeks straight (after last year). I was like, I can’t move on. ” Revuelta, Örtengren, senior Megha Ganne, senior Kelly Xu, and junior Paula Martín Sampedro are all ANWA invitees.
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