C.A.Carter

Career Stats Breakdown

Career Awards / Honors:
2025 Kentucky Women’s Amateur Runner-Up
2024-25 SEC First-Year Academic Honor Roll

2025-26 (Sophomore): Had a career-best 73.7 stroke average across 13 events and 37 rounds … Won the team’s “most improved” award for improving her stroke average from 76.6 as a freshman in 2024-25 to 73.7 as a sophomore in 2025-26 … Had 11 rounds of par-or-better, which tied for the second-most on the team … She contributed 81.0 percent of her rounds to the team total (30-of-37) … Earned six top-20 finishes and four top-20 finishes, including a career-best T3 at both the Terps Invitational and the NCAA Tallahassee Regional … In her season debut, contributed two of her three scores to the team total, including a  second-round 76 and a final-round 73, to help Kentucky finish third in a ranked field … Followed that up with a T18 finish at The Johnie Imes Invitational, going 76 (+4) and 72 (E), while the final round was canceled because of weather … Later in the season, she earned three straight top-10 finishes at the Valspar Augusta Invitational (T8), followed by the Cardinal Classic (T7) and the Terps Invitational (T3) … Just two tournaments later, she turned in a career-best T3 at the NCAA Tallahassee Regional, where she put together one of the most remarkable rounds in program history … There, she led the team wire-to-wire but shined brightest on the final day … Despite recording a bogey on her first hole – the par-4 No. 1 – she followed that up with a combined eight birdies and nine pars for a 7-under-par 65 … Her score not only doubled her previous 18-hole career best but it also tied a Seminole Legacy Golf Course record … Her birdies came in dramatic fashion, too, stringing four consecutive birdies together on hole Nos. 4, 5, 6 and 7 and again on hole Nos. 15, 16, 17 and at last on 18 … Her birdie putt on the 18th green, which was just inside 10 feet,  gave reason for the large crowd that gathered there to erupt in cheers … She finished with a 6-under tournament total for an impressive share of third place out of the touted field … After helping her team reach its first NCAA Championship since 2021, there, she went just 6-over for T83 in Carlsbad, California, as Kentucky went on to finish two spots above its seeding (T23).

2024-25 (Freshman): Averaged a 75.6 stroke average through 12 rounds and four events … Played in three fall events and one spring event … Contributed six of her 12 rounds to the team total … Had two rounds of par-or-better … Turned in her best round of the season on a 71 (-1) at the Mason Rudolph Championship … Had her best tournament total of the season on a 219 (+3) also at the Mason Rudolph Championship … Earned her best finish of the season at T37 at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational.

Before UK: C.A. Carter, a Lexington, Kentucky, native, is a four-year letterwinner on the Lexington Christian Academy golf team … In her senior season, she helped LCA to the 2023 Regional Championship title and the 2023 Semi-State Team Championship title, where she also won the individual title, before leading her team to a 10th place finish at the 2023 KHSAA Tournament … For her contributions, Carter was named a 2023 All-State First Team selection in her final season on the golf team … Outside of high school, Carter also saw time on the American Junior Golf Association, Kentucky Jr. PGA and Peggy Kirk Bell Girls Golf Tour circuits … She collected several medals along the way, including winning the 2022 PKB Emma Talley Tradition and the 2021 and 2023 AJGA Justin Thomas Jr. Qualifiers … She also earned runner-up at the 2023 Kentucky Girls Jr. Amateur … In Summer 2024, she qualified for the USGA Girls Junior Am through the Bloomington Qualifier and she earned the alternate spot at the U.S. Women’s Amateur Qualifier at Miami Valley.

Personal: Born in Lexington, Kentucky, on July 17, 2006 … Daughter of Jimmy and Carrie Carter … Her father played college football at Kentucky from 1995-98 … While in high school, she also was a part of the National Honors Society … Outside of golf, she enjoys running, working out, traveling with family, serving at church and watching Marvel movies.