Women?s Golf Set For Pac-12 Championship

Women?s Golf Set For Pac-12 Championship

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State women’s golf team looks to carry its momentum from a strong spring season to the Pac-12 Championship, which will be held Monday through Wednesday in Boulder, Colo.

The Pac-12 Championship will be condensed into a one-hour special that will debut on Sunday, May 10 at 10 a.m. PT across all Pac-12 Networks.

Click on this link to go to the 2015 Pac-12 Women’s Golf Championship site.

FIELD (11): Oregon State, Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and Washington State. Utah doesn’t have a women’s golf team.

The Pac-12 dominates the polls as league teams hold down the top three spots in Golfweek’s Top-25, led by No. 1 Washington, No. 2 USC and No. 3 UCLA. In all six league teams are among the top 20 in the Golfweek rankings, including No. 7 Arizona, No. 14 Arizona State and No. 17 Stanford. Golfstat’s rankings peg USC as the No. 1 team in the nation, followed by No. 3 UCLA, No. 6 Arizona, No. 8 Washington, No. 16 Stanford and No. 18 Arizona State.

COURSE: The tournament will be held at the par-71, 6,437-yard Boulder Country Club.

BEAVERS’ LINEUP: Oregon State will go with a lineup of senior Anica Yoo, juniors Ashlee Pickerell and Chelsea Saelee, sophomore Krissy Peterson and freshman Hannah Swanson.

Oregon State Lineup -- Season Stroke Average
Krissy Peterson -- 76.29 (21 rounds)
Ashlee Pickerell -- 76.54 (26 rounds)
Chelsea Saelee -- 75.15 (26 rounds)
Hannah Swanson -- 78.00 (17 rounds)
Anica Yoo -- 75.42 (26 rounds)

FORMAT: Three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes each day. The top-four individuals from each five-member team with the lowest scores for each 18-hole round constitute the scoring members for that given round.

TEE TIMES: There will be tee times off the fist and 10th holes beginning at 9 a.m. on Monday and Tuesday and 8:30 a.m. on Wednesday. Oregon State will start at 10:20 a.m. on the first hole on Monday and be paired with UCLA. The pairings for Tuesday and Wednesday will be determined by order of finish from the previous day.

LIVE SCORING: There will be live scoring for the tournament on golfstat.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow the Oregon State women’s golf team on Twitter and Facebook.

LAST YEAR AT THE PAC-12 CHAMPIONSHIP: Oregon State hosted the Pac-12 Championship at Trysting Tree Golf Club last year and finished in ninth place with a 34-over 300-296-302--898.

Stanford came back to win the team title by a stroke over Arizona in a dramatic finish and UCLA’s Alison Lee won medalist honors with a 5-under 211.

The faces of the program for four years, Lauren Sewell and Seshia Telles, led the Beavers in the final round with each posting a 3-over 75. Telles finished the Pac-12 Championship in a team-best tie for 21st place with a 7-over 76-72-75--223 and Sewell was a stroke back with an 8-over 73-76-75--224 for a tie for 25th.

Anica Yoo and Chelsea Saelee both had their moments in the conference championship. Yoo shot an even-par 72 in the second round and finished the tourney in a tie for 34th place with an 11-over 75-72-80--227. Saelee showed her consistency with a 4-over 76 in all three rounds that put her in a tie for 37th with a 12-over 228.

Ashlee Pickerell improved each day as she opened with a 6-over 78 before closing with a pair of 76’s to finish in a tie for 44th place with a 14-over 230.

LAST TIME OUT: Oregon State continued its strong play with a second-place finish at the Silverado Showdown earlier this week and Anica Yoo tied her own school record with a 4-under 68 in the final round.

The Beavers shot a 26-over 308-293-289--890 at the par-72, 6,253-yard North Course at the Silverado Resort and Spa to finish second and only one stroke behind Oregon, which won the team title with a 25-over 299-290-300--889. Oregon State finished ahead of five teams ranked in golfstat.com’s top 50, including Pac-12 rivals Colorado and California.

The 1-over 289 by the Beavers in the final round was tops of the day in the 15-team field and the third-best single-round score in school history, behind only a 5-under 283 at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in 2014 and a 2-under 282 at the Stanford Intercollegiate in 2011.

Yoo shot a 4-under 68 for the second time this season to equal the school record for the lowest single-round score. She had five birdies and only one bogey in the final round to help her finish the tourney in a tie for third place with a 4-over 74-78-68--220.

Krissy Peterson notched her best career finish, a tie for fifth place, after finishing with an impressive 5-over 74-71-76--221. The 1-under 71 in the second round was a career low and the 5-over 221 was also a career best, bettering the 7-over 223 she shot at both the Oregon State Invitational and Westbrook Spring Invitational earlier this season.

Ashlee Pickerell made a jump up the leaderboard by closing with a solid even-par 72. She narrowly missed out on a second straight top-20 showing by finishing with an 11-over 78-77-72--227 for a tie for 26th place. Pickerell finished in a tie for 19th place at the Beavers’ last tournament, the Anuenue Spring Break Classic in Hawai’i.

After opening the tournament with a 12-over 84, Hannah Swanson played even-par golf over the next two rounds to climb into a tie for 29th place. She fired a career-best 1-under 71 in the second round and followed that with a 1-over 73 on Tuesday to post her best three-round score at Oregon State, a 12-over 228.

Chelsea Saelee also bounced back after a rough start to finish in a tie for 45th place with a 16-over 82-74-76--232.

Peterson led the 78-player field with 11 birdies and Swanson added 10. The Beavers had a team-high 37 birdies over the three days, six more than Harvard.