Vavrova Leads Slovakia at World Team Championships

Nebraska women’s golfer Michaela Vavrova led her home country of Slovakia at the World Amateur Team Championships in Paris over the weekend.

Vavrova, a junior from Bojnice, Slovakia, tied for 61st in a 168-player field of the top golfers from 56 countries around the world. Vavrova closed with a four-round total of 300 (+14) with rounds of 75-73-74-78 in the four-day tournament. She finished two strokes ahead of teammate Katarina Drocarova (302), who is a junior at the University of Denver. Antonia Zacharovska completed the three-player Slovakian team with a four-round score of 320. Zacharovska is a freshman at Texas A&M this season and has been rated as high as 200 in the World Amateur Golf Rankings (WAGR).

Vavrova led Slovakia to a 31st-place finish with a score of 599 in the 56-team field. Sweden won the team championship after tying the United States through the four-day tournament with a 559 team score. Sweden earned the title with a better non-counting individual score (73) than the Americans (74). Germany and Japan (560) tied for third, while Spain (561) rounded out the top five in the team competition.

Meta Ortengren (Sweden), Helen Briem (Germany) and Rose Zhang (USA) from Stanford shared the individual title with four-round scores of 279. Zhang is the defending NCAA individual champion and No. 1 player in the WAGR. 

Vavrova returns to Nebraska this week to help the Huskers prepare for their season-opening tournament at the Green Wave Classic in New Orleans (Sept. 12-13).