The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
Women's Golf's Schubert to participate in USGA Celebration of Champions
06.11.2018 | Women's Golf
Texas men's golf great Doug Ghim will be on the bag for Schubert on Tuesday.
Senior Texas golfer Sophia Schubert will participate in the United States Golf Association's Celebration of Champions, a four-hole public exhibition held during the week of the 118th U.S. Open Championship. The exhibition will pair 2017 champions as two-player mixed teams and will be held on Tuesday, June 12 at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club in Southampton, N.Y.
Schubert will participate as the defending U.S. Women's Amateur Champion and she will have Texas men's golf great Doug Ghim, the 2018 Ben Hogan Award recipient, on the bag for the event. Ghim will participate in this week's U.S. Open.
FS1 will broadcast the foursomes (alternate-shot) exhibition, which will feature amateurs and professionals from multiple generations and all walks of life playing holes 10-13. The event will begin at 3:45 p.m. CT with a shotgun start.
The event's participants include: Frankie Capan (U.S. Amateur Four-Ball champion), Alice Chen (U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball champion), Kelsey Chugg (U.S. Women's Mid-Amateur champion), Noah Goodwin (U.S. Junior Amateur champion), Sean Knapp (U.S. Senior Amateur champion), Judith Kyrinis (U.S. Senior Women's Amateur champion), Matt Parziale (U.S. Mid-Amateur champion), Kenny Perry (U.S. Senior Open champion), Doc Redman (U.S. Amateur champion), Schubert (U.S. Women's Amateur champion), Taylor Totland (U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball champion) and Ben Wong (U.S. Amateur Four-Ball champion).
Schubert on Sunday helped the United States claim the 2018 Curtis Cup at Quaker Ridge Golf Club in Scarsdale, N.Y.
Schubert was named a WGCA First-Team All-American in 2018 and was an All-Big 12 Conference selection for the third consecutive season. She tied for 21st at the 2018 NCAA Championship, which was a career-best NCAA Championship finish. For her career as a Longhorn, Schubert carded a career scoring average of 72.64 and posted two wins at Texas. She had 14 top-five finishes, 19 top-10 showings and 28 top-20 finishes. Schubert helped lead Texas to three consecutive NCAA Championship appearances, a pair of Big 12 Conference titles and, in 2018, the program's best finish at the NCAA Championship [T-12] since 2004. This past season, she set the UT school record for single-season stroke average at 71.76 and finished in the top-25 in each of the eight tournaments in which she participated.
Schubert won the 2017 U.S. Women's Amateur Championship last August at Chula Vista, Calif. She became the third golfer in UT history to claim the U.S. Women's Amateur Championship, joining Michiko Hattori [1985] and Kelli Kuehne [1995 and 1996].
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