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Women's Golf Team Set to Open NCAA Regional Monday at Georgia
May 03, 2017 | Women's Golf
Competing as a team in the event for the first time since 2005, the Princeton women's golf team will open its NCAA regional Monday at Georgia.
The top six teams from the 18-team field will advance to the NCAA Championships May 19-24 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill., as will the top three players not on those six teams.
It will be a very challenging field at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga., a par-72, 6,344-yard course for the event. Tee times will begin at 7:30 a.m. for one round each day Monday through Wednesday, and the Tiger five of Tiana Lau, Maya Walton, Hana Ku, Alison Chang and Amber Wang are scheduled to tee off beginning at 9:09 a.m.
Princeton will be competing alongside Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Augusta, Baylor, Clemson, host Georgia, Kansas State, Michigan State, North Carolina, North Florida, Northwestern, Quinnipiac, Tennessee, Troy, UCF and Wake Forest. It's a field that includes 12 teams in Golfweek's national top 50 as of the April 29 rankings, and 16 in the top 100, including Princeton. Mississippi State's Chieh Jessica Peng, Charleston's Laura Fuenfstueck, East Carolina's Lisa Pettersson, San Francisco's Vanessa Ha, Vanderbilt's Alexandra Farnsworth and Virginia's Anna Redding will be competing as individuals.
Princeton's last NCAA participant was Kelly Shon '14, who advanced out of regional play in 2013 to become the second Tiger, along with Mary Moan '97, to compete at the NCAA Championships. Though none of the current Tigers have NCAA regional experience, coach Erika DeSanty, the 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year, guided Williams College to five NCAA Division III top-10 finishes in five seasons with a high of third place in 2014. She had an NCAA D-III individual champion at Williams with Georgiana Salant in 2014.
Princeton earned the Ivy League's automatic bid after a 31-stroke victory over runner-up Harvard at the Ivy League Championships that wrapped April 23. The team's three-round score of 891 set a program record for a three-round tournament and was the second-best three-round score in Ivy League Championship history, behind Harvard's 890 in 2008. All four members of Princeton's scoring four at the Ivy event were All-Ivy, including tournament medalist sophomore Wang, runner-up freshman Chang and senior Ku on the first team and freshman Walton on the second team. All four scoring Tigers were in the tournament's top seven.
Live scoring via Golfstat will be available here.
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The top six teams from the 18-team field will advance to the NCAA Championships May 19-24 at Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove, Ill., as will the top three players not on those six teams.
It will be a very challenging field at the University of Georgia Golf Course in Athens, Ga., a par-72, 6,344-yard course for the event. Tee times will begin at 7:30 a.m. for one round each day Monday through Wednesday, and the Tiger five of Tiana Lau, Maya Walton, Hana Ku, Alison Chang and Amber Wang are scheduled to tee off beginning at 9:09 a.m.
Princeton will be competing alongside Alabama, Arizona, Auburn, Augusta, Baylor, Clemson, host Georgia, Kansas State, Michigan State, North Carolina, North Florida, Northwestern, Quinnipiac, Tennessee, Troy, UCF and Wake Forest. It's a field that includes 12 teams in Golfweek's national top 50 as of the April 29 rankings, and 16 in the top 100, including Princeton. Mississippi State's Chieh Jessica Peng, Charleston's Laura Fuenfstueck, East Carolina's Lisa Pettersson, San Francisco's Vanessa Ha, Vanderbilt's Alexandra Farnsworth and Virginia's Anna Redding will be competing as individuals.
Princeton's last NCAA participant was Kelly Shon '14, who advanced out of regional play in 2013 to become the second Tiger, along with Mary Moan '97, to compete at the NCAA Championships. Though none of the current Tigers have NCAA regional experience, coach Erika DeSanty, the 2017 Ivy League Coach of the Year, guided Williams College to five NCAA Division III top-10 finishes in five seasons with a high of third place in 2014. She had an NCAA D-III individual champion at Williams with Georgiana Salant in 2014.
Princeton earned the Ivy League's automatic bid after a 31-stroke victory over runner-up Harvard at the Ivy League Championships that wrapped April 23. The team's three-round score of 891 set a program record for a three-round tournament and was the second-best three-round score in Ivy League Championship history, behind Harvard's 890 in 2008. All four members of Princeton's scoring four at the Ivy event were All-Ivy, including tournament medalist sophomore Wang, runner-up freshman Chang and senior Ku on the first team and freshman Walton on the second team. All four scoring Tigers were in the tournament's top seven.
Live scoring via Golfstat will be available here.
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