Pac-12 Championships Set To Begin in Boulder on Monday
04/19/15 | Women's Golf
The Oregon women's golf team will take their spring momentum into the postseason, beginning with the Pac-12 Championships at the Boulder Country Club in Boulder, Colo., from Monday, April 20 to Wednesday, April 22. The Ducks will be looking to make a splash in the 11-team field, with six Pac-12 teams entering the week ranked in Golfstat's top-25 team rankings.
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What: Pac-12 Championships
54 holes of college stroke play format; three rounds, 18 holes each day.
When: Monday, April 20 to Wednesday, April 22. The field will begin play on Monday with tee times beginning at 10 a.m. (MT), Tuesday is set to start at 9 a.m. and Wednesday will begin at 8:30 a.m. It will be traditional staggered tee times, with teams starting off No. 1 and 10. Oregon will start off No. 10 and compete with players from Arizona State and California in threesomes.
Where: Boulder Country Club – Boulder, Colo. | Par 71, 6,437 yards
Who: Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and Washington State.
Competing Ducks
No. 1 – Caroline Inglis
No. 2 – Kelsey Ulep
No. 3 – Cathleen Santoso
No. 4 – Marcella Pranovia
No. 5 – Cassy Isagawa
Scouting the Field
Arguably the most competitive conference in women's collegiate golf, the Pac-12 once again will feature a slew of highly ranked teams, six of which are ranked in Golfstat's top 20.
The highest ranked team entering the week will be No. 1 USC, the winners of four events over the course of the season. The Trojans are led by three top-25 players in 5th-ranked Kyung Kim, 20th-ranked Doris Chen and 25th-ranked Annie Park. Kim is the highest-ranked player in the Pac-12 thanks to a 71.62 adjusted scoring average.
UCLA clocks in close behind at No. 3 in large part because of another catalyst in 6th-ranked Bronte Law and her 71.89 adjusted scoring average. In total, the Bruins have four players ranked in the top 100.
Arizona joins the Los Angeles schools in the top 10 at the No. 6 spot. The Wildcats have won two events this year behind the play of 17th-ranked Manon Gidali, 28th-ranked Krystal Quihuis and 36th-ranked Lindsey Weaver.
Washington was No. 1 for a large part of this year, but the Huskies have recently dropped to No. 7 despite six event wins – the most for any school in the country. Jennifer Yang (No. 35), Ying Luo (No. 39) and Eimi Koga (No. 47) make up a trio of players for UW that are ranked in the top 50.
No. 16 Stanford is led by their dynamic duo; 23rd-ranked Lauren Kim and 29th-ranked Mariah Stackhouse, as is No. 18 Arizona State with 15th-ranked Monica Vaughn and 24th-ranked Noemi Jimenez.
After Oregon at No. 28, Cal comes in at No. 36 and Colorado is close behind at No. 39. Oregon State is No. 63 and Washington State rounds out the field at No. 75.
Last Time Out
The Ducks grabbed their second title of the spring season earlier this week when they won the Silverado Showdown with a 25-over 889 at the Silverado North Course in Napa, Calif. The victory was a one-stroke victory over Oregon State (890).
Freshman Kelsey Ulep (78-70-73) and Caroline Inglis (72-75-74) tied for fifth place with 5-over par 221's. Cathleen Santoso finished in a tie for 17th with an 8-over 224 (74-73-77), and Cassy Isagawa also excelled, particularly in the second round after a 227 (79-72-76), giving her a tie for 26th.
The victory means that the Ducks will end the spring season with having won two spring tournaments for the first time since 2000 when they won the Colby Invitational and the Lady Aztec Invitational in back-to-back weekends in March. UO won two titles over the course of the entire season back in 2011-12 when they captured the Dick McGuire Invitational in the fall and then the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate in the spring.
History at the Championships
In the three years since the Pac-12 moved to 12 teams (2012), the Ducks have finished tied for eighth, seventh and eighth in the past three Pac-12 Championships. Isagawa has recorded the top UO individual finish all three years, with her best finish coming in 2013 when she placed sixth with a 215.
In head coach Ria Scott's tenure (2009-present), Oregon's best finish came in the 2010 Pac-10 Championships when they took third place behind Kendra Little's tie for third place individually – the top finish for any UO player in the history of the conference championships. That year the championships were held in Eugene at the Eugene Country Club.
Looking To Break Records
Oregon's current scoring average of 293.92 is on pace to shatter last season's school record average of 298.61. Inglis's scoring average of 72.62 would also be the top individual average in school history if the season ended today, just edging out Isagawa's 72.76 average in the 2011-12 season. Santoso's 73.06 is also on pace to be the fourth-best average in school history as well.
