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PING/ASU Invitational
Women's Golf preview: PING/ASU Invitational
04.03.2014 | Women's Golf
The Longhorns head to Arizona for their final regular-season tune up before hosting the upcoming Big 12 Championship.
UP NEXT: The Texas Women's Golf team will head west to the Grand Canyon State for the PING/ASU Invitational scheduled for April 4-6 in Tempe. The 54-hole stoke-play event will be the Longhorns' final tune up before hosting the 2014 Big 12 Championship (April 25-27).
WHERE: ASU Karsten Golf Course (par 72, 6,223 yards)
WHEN: Friday, April 4 – Sunday, April 6
TEE TIMES: Friday's first round is set to begin at 10 a.m. Central in a split-tee start. In first-round action, Texas is paired alongside Oregon State and Washington State off the first tee. Pairings for Saturday's second round (10 a.m.) will be determined based on Friday's team scores, and Sunday's final-round pairings (9:30 a.m.) will be determined by 36-hole team scores.
THE TOURNAMENT FIELD (15 teams): No. 6 Arizona State, No. 9 Arizona, California, No. 3 Duke, No. 5 Oklahoma, No. 21 Oregon, Oregon State, No. 8 South Carolina, No. 10 Stanford, TEXAS, UC Davis, No. 2 UCLA, No. 12 Vanderbilt, No. 11 Washington, Washington State. (Golfstat Top 25 rankings as of March 31, 2014.)
LIVE SCORING: Golfstatresults.com
RICHARDS' SUCCESS IN TEMPE: Seventh-year head coach Martha Richards boasts her own personal achievement in Tempe. A rare two-sport athlete at Stanford (basketball and golf), Richards was the individual medalist at the 1993 PING/ASU Invitational.
TEXAS LINEUP: 1) Bertine Strauss, 2) Natalie Karcher, 3) Julia Beck, 4) Anne Hakula, 5) Lara Weinstein
LAST TIME OUT: The Texas Women's Golf team recorded a season-best eighth-place finish in the SDSU Farms Invitational (March 24-26) at The Farms Golf Club behind a trio of season-best individual finishes by junior Bertine Strauss and freshmen Julia Beck, Anne Hakula and Lara Weinstein. The Longhorns' (302-301-295=898, +34) +7 performance in the final round was the fourth-lowest final-round score in the 17-team field.