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Women’s Golf to Compete at Silverado Showdown

Women’s Golf to Compete at Silverado Showdown


LOS ANGELES – The UCLA women’s golf team heads to Napa, Calif. for its final tune-up before postseason play to compete at the Silverado Showdown, hosted at Silverado Resort from April 3-5.
 
The 54-hole stroke play event plays a par 72 with a course yardage of 6,146. There are 17 teams participating in the event, including eight ranked in the top 25 of the latest Golfstat poll.
 
The Bruins’ Zoe Antoinette Campos will be the highest-ranked golfer in the field at No. 11.
 
UCLA Lineup (1-5): Zoe Antoinette Campos, Annabel Wilson, Alessia Nobilio, Yuki Yoshihara and Caroline Canales.
 
The Field: No. 22 Arizona, No. 9 Arizona State, California, Colorado, No. 16 Northwestern, No. 24 Ohio State, No. 8 Oregon, Oregon State, Pepperdine, San Francisco, No. 6 San Jose State, No. 13 Texas A&M, Texas State, UCLA, No. 15 USC, Washington and Washington State.
 
Tournament History
UCLA has back-to-back individual medalists at the Silverado Showdown with Lilia Vu in 2017 and Patty Tavatanakit in 2018. Lilia Vu won the event that year with a score of -8, 208 (74-63-71), and the next season, Patty Tavatanakit medaled in 2018 with the same exact score (71-69-68). Vu’s second round tally of -9, 63 in 2017 is tied for the second lowest 18-hole score in UCLA history.
 
The Bruins last competed at the Silverado Showdown in the spring of the 2021 season. Emma Spitz recorded a t-3rd finish at the event with a score of -2, 214 (71-70-73) to lead UCLA to a runner-up finish (+4, 868).
 
Last Time Out
Campos earned the first individual title of her collegiate career with a score of 12-under (66-67-71) at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic at Ka’anapali Golf Course last Wednesday on March 29. UCLA finished third out of 14 teams at 10-under, 854, eight strokes back of first place.
  
Campos’ score of 12-under is tied for the fifth lowest 54-hole score in relation to par in program history. The last Bruin to shoot 12-under or better was Tavatanakit at the 2018 ANNIKA Intercollegiate (-13).
 
Senior Annabel Wilson also picked up her second top-20 finish of the season, tying for 11th at 2-under (71-69-74). Wilson’s performance marked the first under-par tournament finish of her collegiate career.
 
Two other Bruins notched top-20 placements: Alessia Nobilio (T-17th; E) and Yuki Yoshihara (T-19th; +1). It was Yoshihara’s third…

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