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Wildcats Secure No. 4 Match Play Seed At NCAA Championships
5/21/2018 8:11:00 PM | Women's Golf
STILLWATER, Okla. – The Wildcats are headed to match play for the second consecutive year at the NCAA Women's Golf Championships. Northwestern spent all four rounds of stroke play inside the elite field's Top-6, emphatically laying claim to one of the eight coveted spots in match play beginning Tuesday at Karsten Creek Golf Club (Par-72; 6,328 yards).
2018 NCAA Championships – LIVE Leaderboard (via Golfstat)
Tournament Central
Karsten Creek Golf Club
For the third consecutive round, all four of the scoring Wildcats (in the 5-count-4 format) were within two strokes of par. Hannah Kim showed for the second straight day why she will graduate as the best player in program history. The senior carded a 2-under 70, Northwestern's best round of the Championships, to finish the competition in a tie for 13th. She played the final 40 holes of the tournament at 4-under to close the stroke play portion of her college career with a flourish.
The Wildcats earned the No. 4 seed in the eight-team match play bracket that begins on Tuesday morning. Northwestern and No. 5 Stanford will tee off their quarterfinal match at 7:50 a.m. on hole No.10 at Karsten Creek. The Wildcats and Cardinal finished 1-2 in the stroke play portion of the 2017 NCAA Golf Championships at Rich Harvest Farms, with both ultimately falling to eventual national champion Arizona State. Stanford has qualified for match play in all four years since the format was introduced in 2015, winning the national title in that first year and finishing runner-up in 2016.
Northwestern is one of just three teams, along with Southern California and Stanford, to have finished in the Top-10 at the NCAA Championships each of the last four years.
Golf Channel will air live coverage of the NCAA Match Play Quarterfinals from 10 a.m. to 12:30 pm on Tuesday, May 22, and of the Semifinal matches from 4-8 p.m. later that evening.
Northwestern – 4/24 • 299-293-290-291 = 1173 (+21)
T13 – Hannah Kim -- 75-73-71-70 = 289 (+1)
T33 – Janet Mao – 68-78-74-74 = 294 (+6)
T46 – Sarah Cho -- 78-74-72-74 = 298 (+10)
T62 – Stephanie Lau – 78-74-80-73 = 305 (+17)
T69 – Brooke Riley -- 87-72-73-78 = 310 (+16)
Karsten Creek has previously hosted the NCAA Men's Golf Championship in 2003 and 2011. 2018 will mark the first time that Karsten Creek has played host to the NCAA Women's Golf Championship.
Former Oklahoma State golf coach and current athletic direction Mike Holder partnered with renowned golf course designer Tom Fazio to construct one of the most challenging golf courses in the country. When it opened in 1994, Karsten Creek was named "Best New Course" in the country by Golf Digest. The zoysia fairways were cut from a forest of oaks and black jacks, complemented by an undulating terrain that flows throughout the course. The back-nine cascades around the 110-acre Lake Louise that is featured on the finishing holes. The over-seeded rough, greens that make the ball roll as if on glass and intense Oklahoma winds sweeping down the fairways make the course perplexing even for some of the world's top amateur golfers.
2018 NCAA Women's Golf Championships Schedule
Thursday: Practice Round (Shotgun start at 9:30 a.m.)
Friday: Opening Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
Saturday: Second Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
Sunday: Third Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
(Top 15 team & 9 individuals advance)
Monday: Final Round (Stroke play, start at 11:30 a.m.)
(Individual National Champion & 8 advancing teams determined)
Tuesday: Match-Play Quarterfinals (7 a.m.) & Semifinals (1:30 p.m.)
Wednesday: Match-Play Championship (2:25 p.m.)
WE'RE BACK!
— Northwestern Golf (@NUGolf_Live) May 22, 2018
Wildcats earn #4 seed and qualify for match play at the NCAA Championships for the second straight year. #B1GCats | #NCAAGolf pic.twitter.com/kKrikudalX
2018 NCAA Championships – LIVE Leaderboard (via Golfstat)
Tournament Central
Karsten Creek Golf Club
For the third consecutive round, all four of the scoring Wildcats (in the 5-count-4 format) were within two strokes of par. Hannah Kim showed for the second straight day why she will graduate as the best player in program history. The senior carded a 2-under 70, Northwestern's best round of the Championships, to finish the competition in a tie for 13th. She played the final 40 holes of the tournament at 4-under to close the stroke play portion of her college career with a flourish.
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— Northwestern Golf (@NUGolf_Live) May 21, 2018
LIVE Leaderboard
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The Wildcats earned the No. 4 seed in the eight-team match play bracket that begins on Tuesday morning. Northwestern and No. 5 Stanford will tee off their quarterfinal match at 7:50 a.m. on hole No.10 at Karsten Creek. The Wildcats and Cardinal finished 1-2 in the stroke play portion of the 2017 NCAA Golf Championships at Rich Harvest Farms, with both ultimately falling to eventual national champion Arizona State. Stanford has qualified for match play in all four years since the format was introduced in 2015, winning the national title in that first year and finishing runner-up in 2016.
Northwestern is one of just three teams, along with Southern California and Stanford, to have finished in the Top-10 at the NCAA Championships each of the last four years.
Golf Channel will air live coverage of the NCAA Match Play Quarterfinals from 10 a.m. to 12:30 pm on Tuesday, May 22, and of the Semifinal matches from 4-8 p.m. later that evening.
Destination: Glory!
— Golf Channel (@GolfChannel) May 21, 2018
The #NCAAGolf Women's Individual Championship is here. Are you ready? pic.twitter.com/roGAG8YiCA
Northwestern – 4/24 • 299-293-290-291 = 1173 (+21)
T13 – Hannah Kim -- 75-73-71-70 = 289 (+1)
T33 – Janet Mao – 68-78-74-74 = 294 (+6)
T46 – Sarah Cho -- 78-74-72-74 = 298 (+10)
T62 – Stephanie Lau – 78-74-80-73 = 305 (+17)
T69 – Brooke Riley -- 87-72-73-78 = 310 (+16)
Karsten Creek has previously hosted the NCAA Men's Golf Championship in 2003 and 2011. 2018 will mark the first time that Karsten Creek has played host to the NCAA Women's Golf Championship.
Former Oklahoma State golf coach and current athletic direction Mike Holder partnered with renowned golf course designer Tom Fazio to construct one of the most challenging golf courses in the country. When it opened in 1994, Karsten Creek was named "Best New Course" in the country by Golf Digest. The zoysia fairways were cut from a forest of oaks and black jacks, complemented by an undulating terrain that flows throughout the course. The back-nine cascades around the 110-acre Lake Louise that is featured on the finishing holes. The over-seeded rough, greens that make the ball roll as if on glass and intense Oklahoma winds sweeping down the fairways make the course perplexing even for some of the world's top amateur golfers.
2018 NCAA Women's Golf Championships Schedule
Thursday: Practice Round (Shotgun start at 9:30 a.m.)
Friday: Opening Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
Saturday: Second Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
Sunday: Third Round (Stroke play, start at 7:30 a.m.)
(Top 15 team & 9 individuals advance)
Monday: Final Round (Stroke play, start at 11:30 a.m.)
(Individual National Champion & 8 advancing teams determined)
Tuesday: Match-Play Quarterfinals (7 a.m.) & Semifinals (1:30 p.m.)
Wednesday: Match-Play Championship (2:25 p.m.)
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