BOULDER — The University of Colorado women’s golf team begins the spring portion of its schedule at the San Diego State Classic, Feb. 13-14, at The Farms Golf Club in Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.
The 54-hole event begins with two rounds Monday with The Farms par 72 course playing at 6,329 yards for the first 36 holes. The Farms will play slightly shorter for Tuesday’s final round at 6,254 yards.
Colorado sports a young lineup for the tournament, which happened often during the fall season. Sophomores Natalie Vo and Lauren Gooding and freshmen Morgan Miller and Makenzie Cooper join Colorado’s only upper classman at the event, junior Hailey Schalk.
Gooding and Vo were Colorado’s top two golfers during the fall season and the only two that completed all 15 rounds. The sophomore duo were separated by just two strokes during the fall season, with Gooding holding the slight edge with a 75.3 stroke average. She had the fall season’s low round with a 5-under 67 in the second round of the Golfweek Red Sky Classic on Sept. 27.
Gooding led Colorado with the most strokes at par or better (201) and had the low 54 round score at 2-under par, 214, at the Jim West Challenge.
Vo had a 75.4 stroke average during the fall season and recorded Colorado’s most rounds in the 70s at 13, which included a pair rounds under par. She was Colorado’s top golfer at the ultra-tough Barbara Nicklaus Cup tying for 14th at 26-over at the site of the PGA’s Memorial Tournament where the average round score for the field was well above 80.
Miller had a 76.21 stroke average in 14 fall rounds, heavily skewed by a rough outing at the Barbara Nicklaus Cup. Take out that event, and her scoring average drops to 73.73 for those 11 rounds over four tournaments. Miller had Colorado’s lone top 10 showing during the fall season, tying for ninth at the Red Sky Classic at 1-under, 215.
Schalk and Cooper each played in two tournaments in the fall, finishing with an identical stroke total of 454 (75.67 average).
Both opened the season at the USF Intercollegiate, where Schalk placed 24th at 7-over, 220 and Cooper tied for 36th at 10-over, 223. Cooper competed for the Buffaloes in the Red Sky Classic, finishing 75th at 15-over 231. Schalk also played in the Pac-12 Preview at 15-over, 234.
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