Playing in the Nevada State Women’s Amateur is a highlight of the year for most amateurs in Nevada. Winning it takes it to whole different level. Here, we reflect back with 2020 Champion Morgan Goldstein.
The 2025 Nevada State Women’s Amateur is June 23-25 at the private Spanish Trail Country Club in Las Vegas. The course is the home course of the UNLV Women’s Golf Team, which just won the 2025 Mountain West Conference Championship.\
While the state event is open to all levels of golfers, it is very important for the best players in Nevada to play. If a certain threshold is met in 2025, the 2026 champion will earn an exemption into the U.S. Women’s Amateur. This is already the case for the Nevada State Men’s Amateur, a huge benefit to winning that event.
“I think it’s a great event that they put on at Nevada Golf,” said Goldstein, who now is a salesperson for ADP in Las Vegas following her UNLV golf career. “When I played it, it was ages from the teens all the way to women in their sixties. It’s a very competitive field, and I think that women should go out there and compete in it.”
It was one of the highlights of her amateur career.
“The first thing that comes to mind for me is being super proud,” Goldstein said. “I had worked really hard when I was at that age as a junior, and it showed shooting six under the first day and then five under the second day. My family was super proud and I loved going out there and being a part of the Nevada State Women’s Amateur. “It was a dream moment. I was super grateful and thankful for everybody involved and the people that put it on. And then also the players that I was playing with. It just meant the world to me. It was one of my greatest wins and achievements.”