2018-19 Women's Golf Roster
Roster
Petra Salko
- Height:
- 5-11
- Class:
- Senior
- High School:
- Puolalanmaen Lukio
- Hometown:
- Turku, Finland
AWARDS AND HONORS
- Pac-12 Women's Golf Scholar-Athlete of the Year (2019)
- All-Pac-12 honorable mention (2019)
- Third-Team Academic All-American (2018)
- First-Team Academic All-District 8 (2018, 2019)
- Three-time Pac-12 First-Team All-Academic (2017, 2018, 2019)
- Three-time WGCA All-American Scholar (2016, 2017, 2018)
2018-19 | SENIOR
Named the Pac-12 Women's Golf Scholar Athlete of the Year...A first team Academic All-District 8 selection for a second straight year...Lundquist College of Business department of finance most outstanding student for 2018-19...Averaged a 73.50 over 32 rounds in her senior seasons...Spring: Tallied a career-best second-place finish at the Bruin Wave Invitational, posting a 5-over 221...Had another top-5 finish at the Wildcat Invitational, tied for fourth with a 3-over 219...Shot a 70 in her opening round of the Wildcat and also shot a 70 in the second round at the PING/ASU Invitational when she tied for 18th at even par. Fall: Helped the Ducks to a pair of top-5 finishes in four fall tournaments...Shot a 4-under 209 at the Schooner Fall Classic, tied for 14th...Shot a 68 in her second of three rounds at the Schooner Fall Classic, her best of the season...Placed 25th at the Stanford Intercollegiate with a 3-over 216.
2017-18 | JUNIOR
Earned Google Cloud academic all-America third-team honors, the first in program history ... Named the Oregon women's golf team's first-ever CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-District 8 selection ... Earned Pac-12 first-team all-academic honors for the second season in a row ... Competed in all 11 tournaments for the Ducks during the 2018-19 season … Finished with a 74.35 scoring average, the second best on the team … Was the Ducks’ top finisher in two tournaments over the course of the season. Spring: Recorded a career-low 68 in the first round of the SunTrust Gator Invitational, going on to tie for fifth place – the best finish of her collegiate career – at 2 over … Had an incredible second round at the San Francisco NCAA Regional, shooting 3 under. Fall: Finished in 27th place at the East and West Match Play with a 6 over … At the Stanford Intercollegiate, Salko tied for 23rd place after shooting a steady 74 across all three rounds … Earned a top-20 finished at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview with a 4-over 148.
2016-17 | SOPHOMORE
Named a WGCA All-American Scholar and Pac-12 first-team all-academic after maintaining an astounding 4.08 GPA as a sophomore. Spring: Competed in all seven spring tournaments for the Ducks, maintaining a 76.97 scoring average throughout the 2016-17 season ... Opened the spring with an 11th-place finish at the Peg Barnard Invitational (+5) ... Placed 22nd at the Allstate Sugar Bowl Intercollegiate (+4) ... Helped Ducks advance to their second straight NCAA Championships with a 41st-place finish at the NCAA Lubbock Regional, carding rounds of 75, 74 and 75 ... Recorded four rounds at par or better throughout the 2016-17 season, with a low round of 70. Fall: Competed in all five of the Ducks' fall tournaments, finishing with a scoring average of 77.43 ... Opened the fall strong with a 6-over 222 at the Red Raider Invitational, good for a tie for 10th place ... Posted best career finish, a tie for 8th, with a 2-over 146 over two rounds in the stroke play portion of the East-West Match Play Challenge ... Shot an 8-over 224 at the Windy City Collegiate, including an even-par 72 in the opening round ... Closed the fall with scores of 251 at the Greenville Regional Preview and 241 at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview.
2015-16 | FRESHMAN
Competed in 12 tournaments … had a 74.63 scoring average, the third-best on the team …earned WGCA All-American Scholar honors as a freshman ... had six rounds where she shot even-par or under, the third most on the team … had three top 20 finishes, which came in the first three tournaments of the spring season …tied for 35th at the NCAA Regionals after shooting an 8-over 224 (74, 71, 79) … tied for 36th at the NCAA Championships where she shot a 4-over 292 (74, 74, 72, 72), tying her for the second-best 72 hole total in school history … tied for 18th at the Westbrook Invitational when she carded an even-par 216 (69-74-73) …her 3-under 69 in the opening round of the Westbrook was a new career-low … finished 19th at the Peg Barnard Invitational, shooting a 6-over 148 (72-76) … finished a career-best 16th at the SunTrust Gator Invitational when she shot a 10-over 220 (73-72-75) … provided counting scores in 15 of the 18 rounds she’s played in the spring… Fall: Contributed team scores in all five tournaments … tied for 32nd in her first career tournament by shooting a 4-over 223 (72-76-75) at the Branch Law/Dick McGuire Invitational in New Mexico … had one of the best wins during the Ducks’ semifinal match against Michigan during the East-West Match Play Challenge when she won 6 and 5 over Emily White … tied for 23rd at the Stanford Intercollegiate, the highest finish on the team … shot a 5-over 218 (73-75-70) during the event.
BEFORE OREGON
Attended Puolalanmäen lukio secondary school in Turko, Finland … in 2015, she finished 9th at the International South American Championships … was a standout on the Finnish Tour where she finished first, third and fourth place through 2014 … was a runner-up in the women’s U-21 Finnish Championship and finished the 2014 year ranked fifth in the Finnish Amateur Rankings and second on the Finnish Tour … was ranked second at the end of 2013 in the Finnish Junior Amateur rankings … finished first twice and second twice on the 2013 Finnair Junior Tour, the main junior tour in Finland
PERSONAL
Major is business … Daughter of Juha and Kristiina Salko … has two younger brothers, Samu and Karri … majoring in pre-business administration.
