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Kate Walker and Navy Hubbs add more UGA credentials
Stableford and steadiness. Those words define the UGA Women’s Spring Open story of the runaway champions, junior golf stars Kate Walker and Navy Hubbs.
Walker, especially, embraced the Team Stableford format as she and Hubbs posted 177 points to 142 for Molly Steffes-Corey Weworski, who had shared the 2025 title with Robin Krapfl-Marci Dubois. Walker, a Crimson Cliffs High School senior and reigning UGA Women’s Player of the Year, made 15 birdies and an eagle in two days at Green Spring GC and Copper Rock GC. She brought consistency to the final round, carding a stroke-play 68, while Hubbs was steady throughout the tournament.
2026 Women’s Spring Open champions, Navy Hubbs and Kate Walker.
Hubbs, a Salem Hills junior, also won the UGA Winterchamps Women’s title in March after taking the 2nd UGA Girls’ Junior State Amateur trophy last July.
Walker played spectacularly, posting eight birdies and an eagle at Green Spring (amid five double bogeys, the limit for any hole in the Team Stableford system that counts every score). She added seven birdies at Copper Rock, with three bogeys.
The tournament was “super great for me and for Navy,” Walker said. “I made a lot of putts and when one of us messed up, we would come through for one another. She was a great partner, and I am so glad we could pull off this win.”
Hubbs totaled nine birdies and an eagle in two days. She will play again in Hurricane in May, via the UGA’s exemption into the Epson Tour’s Copper Rock Championship.
Steffes-Weworski couldn’t quite match last April’s showing, while extending the trend of elite, out-of-state senior golfers contending in the Women’s Spring Open. Katelyn Day-Kyra Sponenburgh, former Westminster University teammates, finished third with 133 points.
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Tournament recap written by Fairways Media senior writer Kurt Kragthorpe. Photography by Fairways Media/Garrit Johnson.