Texas women’s golf athlete Farah O’Keefe has been named a finalist for the Honda Award for golf, The Collegiate Women Sports Awards announced on June 3.
O’Keefe is currently ranked as the No. 1 women’s collegiate golfer and holds the No. 4 spot on the World Amateur Golf Ranking list. This season, she won the NCAA individual championship, received both the ANNIKA Award and Women’s Golf Coaches Association Player of the Year award, secured four tournament victories, and finished in the top 10 at each of her twelve collegiate events. O’Keefe also set a new Texas women’s golf program record with a single-season stroke average of 69.84. She is scheduled to compete in the U.S. Women’s Open this week and will represent Team USA at both the Curtis Cup and Palmer Cup later this summer.
The announcement coincides with a milestone year for The Collegiate Women Sports Awards organization as it marks its 50th anniversary during the 2025-26 collegiate athletics season. For fifty years, the Honda Sport Award has recognized top women athletes across twelve NCAA-sanctioned sports as “the best of the best in collegiate athletics.” The recipient of this year’s award will become a finalist for Collegiate Woman Athlete of the Year and join candidates for the Class of 2026 Honda Cup, which will be presented live on Monday, July 27 at 7 p.m. Eastern Time on CBS Sports Network.
Finalists were selected by experts and coaches from the Women’s Golf Coaches Association panel. The winner of this year’s Honda Sport Award for golf will be announced later this week, following voting by administrators from more than one thousand NCAA member schools.
