Momo Sugiyama Earns All-Big Ten Honors

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Ahead of Purdue Women’s Golf finding out its destination for NCAA postseason play, sophomore Momo Sugiyama earned Second Team All-Big Ten accolades in her first season as a Boilermaker.
 
Sugiyama, the first recruit under new head coach Zack Byrd, has led Purdue throughout the 2022-23 season. The Australian has already tied a single-season school record with six rounds in the 60s this year, a mark shared by five other Boilermakers throughout program history. Ranked No. 77 by Golfstat, Sugiyama paces Purdue in stroke average (73.2), low rounds (14) and pars (373).
 
In six of 11 tournaments, Sugiyama has produced Purdue’s lowest individual tournament total. That includes last week’s Big Ten Championship, tying for 13th. Her sophomore campaign has featured three Top-5 performances, including at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic (March 24-25) where she beat 13 golfers ranked in Golfstat’s Top 100. She finished that tournament with a two-round total of 142 (73-69), the second-best 36-hole total in school history. Sugiyama also placed fourth at the Windy City Collegiate Classic (Oct. 3-4). Tying for fifth on the individual leaderboard, she helped the Boilermakers capture the team title at the Tulane Classic to begin the spring (Feb. 12-14).
 
Sugiyama is no stranger to earning all-conference honors. Before transferring to Purdue, she collected First Team All-Big West accolades as a freshman at Hawaii, setting single-season school records for stroke average (73.40), rounds of par-or-better (13), birdies (85) and 54-hole score (211).
 
Another Boilermaker received recognition when the conference honors were announced. Graduate student Danielle du Toit was Purdue’s winner of the Big Ten Sportsmanship Award. In her fifth season as a Boilermaker, du Toit has played in 45 tournaments to total 124 rounds. She joins Sugiyama as the only two Boilermakers to play in all 11 events this season.  
 
Sugiyama, du Toit and the Boilermakers find out where they will be heading for NCAA Regionals Wednesday afternoon (April 26). The NCAA Selection Show begins at 1 p.m. ET on GOLF Channel.
 
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