Melanie Green Secures LPGA Tour Card
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. On Tuesday, August 5th, the Epson Tour announced that former New York State golfer Melanie Green has secured her LPGA Tour Card and will be a rookie on the professional golf tour for the 2026 season.
The former University of South Florida Bull is currently a 2025 Epson Tour Rookie, and secured the No. 1 position on the current tour’s season-long Race for the Card points list. In 2025, she had eight top-10 finishes. Along with that, she claimed the Island Resort Championship presented by the Delta County Chamber back in June. The Epson Tour awards LPGA Tour cards to the top 15 players in the standing each year, and Melanie along with two others (Gina Kim and Briana Chacon) have mathematically secured the status, with five events still left to play in the season.
Related: Epson Tour Profile / Race for the Card Standings
Last year, she was the first American since 1996 to win at the 121st R&A’s Women’s Amateur Championship, in Portmarnock, Ireland. She completed the victory after dropping in two birdies on the final three holes to reclaim the lead and secure the title.
That victory secured her a spot on the USA Curtis Cup Team, selected as one of the nation’s top eight amateur players to represent at Sunningdale Golf Club outside of London, England at the end of August. The USA team ended up losing by a point to GB&I. She was one of ten New York players who have ever competed in a Curtis Cup Match.
Green was quite the golfer in college, as she was a four-time American All-Conference Team member in every season played at USF. In the 2023-2024 season, she was ranked 23rd in the country. In that same season, she was recognized as the first USF women’s golfer ever to be named the AAC Women’s Golf Player of the Year.
All that was good enough to get her invited to the 2024 Augusta National Women’s Amateur at Augusta National, home of the Masters.
Growing up in Western New York, she played golf for Medina High School, where she was a two-time NYSPHSAA state champion and committed to South Florida as New York’s No. 1 Recruit in the Class of 2020. She competed in two NYS Girls’ Juniors in 2016-17, both times finishing inside of the top 10.
