Emilia Doran Facts: 15 Things To Know About The TV Reporter And Amateur Golfer

Get to know the talented amateur golfer and broadcaster Emilia Doran with these facts about her life and career

Emilia Doran at the PGA Championship, Quail Hollow
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Emilia Doran (née Migliaccio) is not your traditional broadcaster, as she has managed to combine playing in some of golf's biggest events with covering them on TV - sometimes at the same tournaments!

Get to know more about Emilia here with these facts about her life and career.

Emilia Doran Facts

1. Emilia Doran was born on April 25th 1999 in Raleigh, North Carolina.

2. She went to college at Wake Forest and was twice named a first team All-American.

3. She was part of the Wake Forest team that won the 2023 NCAA D1 Women's Golf National Championship, claiming victory in her match 4&2.

4. She turned down the chance to turn professional to pursue a career in broadcasting.

5. Her mother, Ulrika Migliaccio, played college golf at Arizona and was a 1992 All-American.

6. Doran holds the joint record of US Arnold Palmer Cup appearances with five.

7. She also made history at the US Women's Open at Pebble Beach in 2023 by both playing in the tournament and working as an on-course reporter for the Golf Channel.

8. Doran's media work now includes being an on-course reporter and analyst for the NBC Sports broadcast team, along with the Golf Channel and PGA Tour Live.

Emilia Doran interviews Min Woo Lee

Emilia Doran is an accomplished broadcaster

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9. She has played at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur five times.

10. Emilia has played in the US Women's Open three times, but not managed to make the cut.

11. Doran played in the 2016 Junior Ryder Cup and the 2017 Junior Solheim Cup.

12. She reached a career-high of third in the Women's World Amateur Golf Rankings back in 2020.

Emilia Doran taking a shot

Emilia Doran has a successful amateur career

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13. She played for the US Curtis Cup team in 2021 and 2022.

14. She met her now husband Charlie Doran in a writing class during her freshman year at Wake College.

15. He also caddied for her at the 2025 US Women's Amateur. During that tournament, she beat Reagan Zibilski in the round of 64 at Bandon Dunes.

Like the US Women's Open two years earlier, it was an event that also combined her broadcasting duties as, later that day, she was working as an on-course reporter for the Golf Channel.

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Paul Higham
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Paul Higham is a sports journalist with over 20 years of experience in covering most major sporting events for both Sky Sports and BBC Sport. He is currently freelance and covers the golf majors on the BBC Sport website.  Highlights over the years include covering that epic Monday finish in the Ryder Cup at Celtic Manor and watching Rory McIlroy produce one of the most dominant Major wins at the 2011 US Open at Congressional. He also writes betting previews and still feels strangely proud of backing Danny Willett when he won the Masters in 2016 - Willett also praised his putting stroke during a media event before the Open at Hoylake. Favourite interviews he's conducted have been with McIlroy, Paul McGinley, Thomas Bjorn, Rickie Fowler and the enigma that is Victor Dubuisson. A big fan of watching any golf from any tour, sadly he spends more time writing about golf than playing these days with two young children, and as a big fair weather golfer claims playing in shorts is worth at least five shots. Being from Liverpool he loves the likes of Hoylake, Birkdale and the stretch of tracks along England's Golf Coast, but would say his favourite courses played are Kingsbarns and Portrush. 

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