Goshen, Connecticut (July 15, 2026) – Jordan Levitt won the 61st Connecticut Women’s Amateur Championship at Torrington Country Club, closing with a 6-over 78 for a 54-hole total of 15-over-par.
Levitt (Rockrimmon CC) opened with an 8-over 80 on Monday before rebounding with the round of the day, a 1-over 73 on Tuesday. Her three-day total was good enough to edge Zorah Williams (Stonington CC) and Maddie Chang (Ridgefield GC) by a single stroke. Both Williams and Chang, the leader after each of the first two rounds, finished in a tie for second at 16-over.
The championship came down to the final hole, where Levitt made a costly mistake on her approach, only to answer with the biggest putt of her week. Leading by two shots, after trailing by four to start the day, Levitt found the fairway with her drive. Then the unexpected happened with her second.
“I shanked it,” Jordan Levitt said of her fairway shot on 18, which flew out of bounds over the road running alongside the course. “Shanks happen. I think that’s the second ball I’ve ever shanked in a competition in my life.”
Rather than dwell on it, she looked at her caddie Brad and laughed it off, resetting with a simple plan: find the best spot to drop after the penalty.
Levitt’s wedge from the drop then ran long on 18’s tricky green, leaving her a slippery two-putt just to stay in the running.
Weighing whether to chip or putt the tricky shot, she and Brad settled on putting, and Levitt asked her caddie directly where a two-putt would leave her.
“I asked him, if I two-putt, where does that put me,” Levitt said. “He said, you can two-putt it, and he wasn’t giving me more than that.”
Her first putt rolled eight feet past the cup, setting up a knee knocker with the tournament on the line. The outcome hinged on her and Chang: make it and Chang misses, win outright; make it and Chang makes hers too, head to a playoff. “You have to make the story,” Levitt said. She drained the putt for the win.
It capped a round that started fast, with a birdie on the first hole.
“I came out swinging,” Levitt said. “I birdied one. I was pretty happy about that.” She credited her caddie for keeping the round simple. “Hit in the fairway and hit the green, and we’ll see where we are then,” she recalled him saying. “You can’t make a birdie off the tee, but you can put yourself in a position to make one.”
Levitt pointed to two putts on the back nine as the ones that mattered most. On the par-3 17th, a demanding 186-yard hole playing into a crosswind, she left her tee shot short of the green, chipped to about five and a half feet, then rolled in the uphill putt for par. “I feel like sometimes you gotta do it when it matters,” she said.
She was equally proud of her recovery play throughout the round. On the par-3 11th hole, her tee shot drifted right and kicked into a bunker, but Levitt was able to get up and down for par.
On the par-5 12th, an approach that carried just over the back of the green drew silence from the gallery before she and Brad realized it had missed long. “There’s no reaction from the crowd. We thought that was perfect, and then we saw it off the back,” she said. “You’ve got to just take it in stride.”
Levitt took all the ups and downs in stride all week long and now, thanks to her victory, she will look to carry that momentum into the 126th U.S. Women’s Amateur set to be played from August 4-9 at The Honors Course in Ooltewah, Tennessee.
Levitt, who qualified last year, said of her experience at Bandon Dunes, “It was insane. I didn’t play as well as I wanted to, so the minute I left that site, it was like, I got to get back to the U.S. Women’s Amateur. To win the Connecticut Amateur is beyond words.”
Levitt said she now turns her attention to preparing for that national stage. “I’m so pumped,” the rising Notre Dame sophomore said. “I’m gonna work my butt off to fine-tune those little things here and there.”
The top five of the standings was rounded out by 2023 winner Arabella Lopez (Redding CC) in fourth at 18-over, and Mia Rodgers (Fairview CC) in fifth at 22-over.
In the Senior Division, Nicole Elliott (Chippanee CC) rallied from three back to claim the title. 36-hole leader Mercedes Large (Wampanoag CC) finished second, while it was Debbie Johnson (Blackhawk CC) who took third.
About the Connecticut State Golf Association
The Connecticut Women’s Amateur is one of 20 championships conducted by the Connecticut State Golf Association. The CSGA functions as an extension of the USGA and provides stewardship for amateur golf in Connecticut. Founded in 1899, it is the country’s oldest state golf association and conducts over 60 Championships, Qualifiers, and One Day Tournaments throughout the year.
