2025-26 Women's Golf Roster
Grace Ridenour
- Class:
- Freshman
- Hometown:
- Cary, N.C.
- High School:
- Crossroads Flex High School (Cary)
Amateur: Won the 2024 Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Tour Invitational at Landfall in Wilmington • Led all three rounds and finished 3-under 213 • Low competitive round is a 4-under 67 as she won the 2023 HV3 Foundation Junior Open at Colonial Country Club • Nine AJGA top-10 finishes • Three PKBGT wins among a dozen top-three finishes • Sixth in the 2025 North Carolina Women’s Amateur • Seventh in the 2023 Dixie Women’s Amateur • Five-time all-state • 2024 Rolex Scholastic Honor Roll.
Personal: Born on Feb. 14, 2007, in Cary, N.C. • Daughter of Rich and Julie Ridenour • Attended Crossroads Flex High School.
Top golf achievement was winning the PKBGT Invitational at Landfall • Favorite course is Pinehurst No. 3 • Favorite player is Rory McIlroy • Go-to club under pressure is her 54-degree wedge • Best shot was as a 9-year-old, a 3-wood to three feet to make eagle on the final hole to shoot par for the first time • Dream pairing includes McIlroy, Annika Sorenstam and Max Homa • Golf superstition is to wear her bracelets in the same order.
Hobbies include bass fishing, hiking, reading, photography and painting • Favorite place to eat is Bojangles • Favorite vacation spot is Sedona, Ariz. • Listens mostly to country music • Favorite non-golf athlete is Formula 1 racer Max Verstappen.
