GUADALAJARA, JALISCO, MEXICO – The Maryland women’s golf team will travel to Mexico this weekend to play the second edition of the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club hosted by the University of Virginia. This is the team’s fifth event of the 2022-23 campaign.
Over the two-day tournament (Feb. 5-6), Maryland will play the par-72 Guadalajara Country Club, designed by the late John Bredemus. The tournament will consist of 54-holes of play (27-holes Sunday and 27-holes Monday) beginning at 9:00 a.m. ET on both days. The field will play from 6,333 yards.
Junior Patricie Mackova, who is ranked No. 33 nationally, 87th-ranked freshman Nicha Kanpai, senior Maria Vittoria Corbi, senior Angela Garvin, and sophomore Panassaya Somchit will lead the Terrapins.
“I am really looking forward to getting the spring season started,” head coach Kelly Hovland said. “We have had a great start to the semester and are prepared, motivated, and ready to tee it up in competition. Mexico will be a great experience for our team, and it’s going to be a really strong competition from top to bottom.”
Participants in the invitational include host No. 12 Virginia, No.13 Arizona, No. 24 Baylor, No. 49 California, No. 10 Florida State, No. 40 Georgia, No. 46 Maryland, No. 29 Michigan, No. 39 North Carolina, No. 49 NC State, No. 8 Ole Miss, and No. 38 Tennessee. Rankings are based on team standings via Golfstat as of November 15, 2022.
On Saturday morning, student-athletes will participate in the College Am.
In 2020, host Virginia won the event in the inaugural edition of the IJGA Collegiate Invitational, now the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club. While the Terrapins finished 8th of 13 teams in one of the final collegiate golf events held that year before spring sports were shut down due to the impact of the COVID-19 international pandemic.
The venue was the home course of former Arizona All-American – LPGA standout – World Golf Hall of Famer – two-time major champion, and 27-time LPGA Tour winner Lorena Ochoa, whose family’s home overlooked the clubhouse. From 2008 to 2013 Guadalajara Country Club hosted the LPGA’s Lorena Ochoa Invitational. Ochoa is the sports hero for junior Karla Elena Vázquez Setzer, who, over her career, has played several rounds at the club as a junior golfer in the Mexican Amateur.
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