COLUMBIA, S.C. (Aug. 31, 2026) \u2013 A pair of South Carolina women\u2019s golfers were named to the Golf Channel Preseason All-American squads as announced by Golf Channel on Monday morning. Eila Galitsky was tabbed to the Second Team, while freshman Amelia Harris earned a spot on the Honorable Mention team as well as the Preseason First Team All-Freshman. In addition to the pair of preseason All-American honors, the Gamecocks were slated 10th in the Golf Channel Preseason Top 30 rankings.<\/p>\n
Galitsky, a two-time consensus All-American, is coming off a sophomore campaign in which she appeared in 10 events with five top-10 results including a win at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate. Currently ranked No. 11 in the most recent World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR), Galitsky earned a spot on the All-SEC Second Team last season after leading the Gamecocks in scoring average at 71.76. Her season scoring average ranked 11th best in school history and second-best scoring average by a sophomore in Gamecock history. The Thailand native has appeared in 16 career events with 48 rounds of competition, averaging 71.44 strokes per round. She has nine career top-10 finishes and five of those have resulted in top-5 placements.<\/p>\n
Harris, a current freshman from Melbourne, Australia, currently ranks No. 67 in the latest WAGR. A highly sought after golfer, Harris finished 17th at the 2026 U.S. Girls\u2019 Junior Championship after opening the tournament with a historic 63 (-9). She fired a back-nine score of 28 that featured eight birdies, including six consecutive birdies from holes No. 13-18. In the last two years she has competed in 36 WAGR sanctioned events and has amassed 23 top-10 finishes, including six wins and six runner-up results.<\/p>\n
The Gamecocks are set to begin their season a week from today at the 2026 ANNIKA Intercollegiate that commences on Monday, Sept. 7. The three-day event will be played at Royal Golf Club in Lake Elmo, Minn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"COLUMBIA, S.C. (Aug. 31, 2026) \u2013 A pair of South Carolina women\u2019s golfers were named to the Golf…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5037,5039,5042,5038,5036,44,5041,1763,5035,5040,239],"class_list":["post-58882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-carolina","tag-columbia","tag-featured-articles-home-page","tag-fighting-gamecocks","tag-gamecocks","tag-golf","tag-headlines-home-page","tag-south-carolina","tag-south-carolina-gamecocks","tag-usc","tag-women-s-golf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}