Northwestern University Athletics
Seventh-Ranked Northwestern Opens Spring at Lady Puerto Rico
2/12/2015 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
| Northwestern Women's Golf |
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| 2015 Lady Puerto Rico |
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| Date | Sunday, Feb. 15 -- Tuesday, Feb. 17 |
| Location | Rio Mar River Course | Rio Mar, P.R. |
| Layout | Par 72 • 6,203 yards |
| Live Results | Birdie Fire |
EVANSTON, Ill. -- Following a fall season in which Northwestern earned one team victory and a top-10 national ranking, the Wildcats open the spring portion of 2014-15 this Sunday through Tuesday, Feb. 15-17, at the Lady Puerto Rico hosted by Purdue on the Rio Mar River Course in Rio Mar, P.R.
With its exceptionally deep lineup, Northwestern is an early favorite to make noise at the 2015 NCAA Championships in the new match play format adopted this season. "Consider a team that enters the NCAAs among the top 10-15 in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings. A team with strong players in the fourth and fifth spots and places among the top eight after 72 holes could be a tough out. This year, that team looks a lot like Northwestern," Golfweek Magazine's Lance Ringler wrote in the fall.
NU currently is ranked seventh nationally by Golfstat and ninth by Golfweek/Sagarin, and the run-up to the 2015 Big Ten and NCAA Championships begins this weekend.
Fifteen teams are among the field at the Lady Puerto Rico, which will feature 18 holes per day over three days at the 6,203-yard, par-72 River Course at the Wyndham Rio Mar Resort. In addition to No. 7 Northwestern, No. 4 Arkansas, No. 18 N.C. State, No. 20 LSU, No. 21 Auburn, No. 26 GRU Augusta and No. 28 Kent State all enter this week's event in the top 30 in the current Golfstat rankings.
No. 33 Iowa State, No. 36 Purdue, No. 45 Georgia, No. 77 TCU, No. 82 Michigan, No. 84 Indiana, No. 100 Clemson and No. 102 Iowa round out the field.
Northwestern won its opening Branch Law Firm/Dick McGuire Invitational back in September, finished second in its home Windy City Collegiate Classic and had a top-five performance at the Stanford Intercollegiate in the fall. The Wildcats also played in the inaugural Annika Intercollegiate, which featured 10 teams that finished in the top-18 at last year's NCAA Championships.
Individually, junior Suchaya Tangkamolprasert (Bangkok, Thailand/Bromsgrove International School) is ranked 31st in the nation and freshman Hannah Kim (Chula Vista, Calif./Otay Ranch) is 33rd following the fall according to Golfstat. Four members of NU's starting lineup are ranked in the top 170 in the country while all six team members headed to Puerto Rico this week are ranked in the top 220 as individuals.
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