Karmazin Three-Peats as Nebraska Girls' Golfer of the Year
Third Player to Win Three-Straight Awards
OMAHA (November 12, 2024) - The Nebraska Golf Association is proud to announce the selection of Omaha’s Julia Karmazin as the 2024 Nebraska Girls’ Amateur Golfer of the Year, her third-straight award.
Karmazin, a graduate of Elkhorn North High School, is just the third player to win the award in three-straight years. She won the points race in convincing fashion, sweeping the NebGolf girls' titles.
Now playing golf at Creighton University, Karmazin joins Doniphan's Danielle Lemek and Wahoo's Haley Thiele as the only players to win the award at least three times, all doing so in consecutive years. Lemek won four-straight awards from 2009-12, and Thiele followed immediately after from 2013-15.
After breaking through for her first NebGolf title in 2023, the flood gates opened for Karmazin in 2024. She kicked-off the championship season by winning the 24th Nebraska Girls' Amateur at Awarii Dunes Golf Club in Axtell in June. The three-stroke victory gave her back-to-back titles, making her the fifth player to accomplish the feat, and the first since 2015. The win also earned her a full exemption into the 75th U.S. Girls' Junior Championship at El Caballero Country Club in Tarzana, California in July.
Before heading to the U.S. Girls' Junior, Karmazin had her eyes on a sweep at the 62nd Nebraska Girls' Match Play Championship at Norfolk Country Club. She earned the No. 3 seed in the bracket and battled through three difficult matches, including two 1-up wins on the 18th hole, to get to the Final. Karmazin faced the defending champion, Naryn Kim of Lincoln, and played the last five holes of the match in 2-under to close out the title with a 2-and-1 win. She became the seventh player to sweep both girls' championships.
Karmazin also performed well in NebGolf's women's championships. She finished tied for seventh at the 50th Nebraska Women's Amateur at Oak Hills Country Club in Omaha in June, just missing out on a third-straight Low Junior award by two strokes. Karmazin then earned the No. 4 seed at the 101st Nebraska Women's Match Play at Landmand Golf Club in Homer in July. She won her first match, before falling in the Round of 16 to her now-teammate at Creighton, Karsen Morrison of North Platte.
Karmazin extended her dominance on the junior circuit by winning the 2024 Nebraska Junior PGA Championship in a playoff over Fremont's Ansley Giesselmann. She also finished runner-up at the 2023 NSAA Class B Girls' Championship, and inside the top 3 at all three 2024 NJG Spring Junior Series events.
Karmazin will be honored at the Nebraska Golf Association's Celebration of Champions, featuring the Golf Channel's Rich Lerner, on Friday, December 6 at the Embassy Suites in La Vista (Tickets can be purchased here). In addition, NebGolf will recognize its Amateur Golfer of the Year, Women’s Amateur Golfer of the Year, Junior Amateur Golfer of the Year and Senior Amateur Golfer of the Year.
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About NebGolf
The Nebraska Golf Association (NebGolf), founded in 1966, is comprised of all members of public and private clubs and/or municipal or regional golf associations which utilize an approved handicap service recognized by the USGA and provided by NebGolf. Our mission is to uphold and promote the game of golf and its values to all golfers in Nebraska. Among the duties of the Association include governance of member clubs and service as their handicapping and course rating authority, conduct of state golf championships, local USGA qualifying & other notable competitions, promotion of junior golf, presentation of worthwhile educational programs and support of allied golf organizations in Nebraska. The Nebraska Golf Association is an Allied Golf Association of the USGA and carries out core services including Handicap Administration and Oversight, Course Rating, Rules of Golf and Rules of Amateur Status, Tournaments and USGA Championship Qualifiers and USGA Initiatives and Community Programs.
