Women’s Junior Golf Camp

Aimee Neff- UNC Women’s Golf Head Coach

Aimee Neff is in her third season as head coach of the UNC women’s golf program. Neff rejoined the Tar Heels after three seasons as head coach at Florida Atlantic University. She was the associate head coach at Carolina in 2017-18. As head coach for the Tar Heels, she has led the team to two consecutive NCAA Regional Championships, two team victories, and three individual wins. Neff’s student-athletes have succeeded academically at each of her four coaching stops, earning 31 All-America Scholar Awards. FAU had the sixth-highest grade point average in DI in 2020. A native of Carmel, Ind., Neff attended Michigan State from 2007-11 and became the third MSU women’s golfer to earn All-Big Ten honors four times. She had 13 top-10 finishes, led the Spartans to the Big Ten championship as a senior and won the Big Ten Conference Medal of Honor in 2011. She was an All-America Scholar and member of the Academic All-Big Ten team three times. Neff won the Illinois Women’s Open in 2008 and 2009 and the Indiana Women’s Open in 2009 and 2010. She played in the 2012 U.S. Open in Kohler, Wis., and on the Symetra Tour from 2011-14, competing in the United States, Australia and New Zealand. She holds Titleist Performance Institute Certification in Levels I and II and is certified in AimPoint Express and Trackman University.

Katherine Hamski- UNC Women’s Golf Assistant Coach

Katherine (Perry) Hamski, a 2012 All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection and seven-year veteran of the LPGA Tour, is joining the University of North Carolina women’s golf team as assistant coach, head coach Aimee Neff announced today. Hamski played in 41 tournaments as a Tar Heel from 2010-14 and was a member of Carolina’s 2011 team that won the ACC Championship her freshman season. The Cary, N.C., native tied for fifth in the 2014 ACC Championship, placed sixth in 2011 and played in two NCAA Championships, where she tied for 24th as a freshman and eighth as a sophomore. She earned seven top 10s, including third-place efforts at the Darius Rucker Intercollegiate as a sophomore and the UCF Challenge as a junior. A two-time captain of the Tar Heels, she earned honorable mention All-America honors in 2012, made the ACC Honor Roll four times and was a three-time member of the Academic All-ACC team. A 2014 UNC graduate (exercise and sports science and psychology), Hamski played two seasons on the Symetra Tour and joined the LPGA Tour in 2017. She has two career top-10 finishes on the LPGA Tour, including a tie for sixth in the 2019 Volunteers for America Classic.

Heather Bowie Young- Head Coach at Florida Atlantic University since 2021

“For the last five seasons, Bowie Young has been the top assistant at a successful Clemson program. The Tigers advanced to NCAA Regionals in all four possible postseasons (the only exception being the unfinished 2019-20 campaign) and finished with two national Top 25 rankings. She also helped lead the 2017 squad to a fifth-place regional finish, allowing the team to advance to its first ever NCAA Division I Championship tournament.

This past season, Clemson finished fourth or better in four of five regular season tournaments, placed sixth in the ACC Championship, and qualified once again for an NCAA Regional. Two Tigers finished within the Top 25 individually at that regional as well.

Prior to her coaching career, Bowie Young was a highly successful player, both on the amateur and professional levels. Collegiately, she earned three NCAA trophies, with two team titles at Arizona State and as the 1997 NCAA individual national champion with Texas. Additionally, she was BIG 12 individual champion and Player of the Year and was a First Team All-America honoree. Combined, she won nine individual tournament titles while earning All-America honors all four years of her collegiate career.

During a 16-year career on the LPGA Tour, Bowie Young earned 28 top-10 finishes and the 2005 Jamie Farr Owens Corning LPGA Classic title. She also was a member of the 2003 United States Solheim Cup team, and as recently as two years ago, qualified for the United States Women's Open.

Bowie Young takes over an FAU team that in 2021 set program records in team stroke average and earned the highest Golfweek ranking in history. The squad's sixth-place finish at the 2021 Conference USA Championship was also its highest, and the team featured the C-USA Women's Golfer of the Year as well as its second NCAA Regional individual participant ever.”