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No. 6 Women’s Golf falls 3-2 to No. 5 Oregon in NCAA Match Play Quarterfinals
05.20.2025 | Women's Golf
Longhorns wrap up 33rd appearance at NCAA Championship.
CARLSBAD, Calif. — The No. 6 Texas Women's Golf team concluded its NCAA Championship run with a hard-fought 3-2 loss to No. 5 Oregon in the quarterfinal round of match play on Tuesday at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa.
Cindy Hsu made five birdies and won her match 1-up against Suvichaya Vinijchaitham. Farah O'Keefe rallied back from down two holes to even the match at hole 15 and took the lead for good at hole 16 en route to a 2&! victory against Karen Tsuru.
Bohyun Park totaled three birdies and won four holes but dropped a 3&1 decsion against Kiara Romero. Angela Heo birdied hole 15 and won two holes but lost her match against Ting-Hsuan Huang by a score of 3&2.
Lauren Kim, who trailed by as much as 4-down, birdied holes 15 and 16 to even her match against Tong An. The two players halved each of the next two holes and forced extra holes in the deciding match. On the 20th hole (playing hole 17), An won the hole to clinch the match for the Ducks.
The Longhorns have the third-longest active streak of qualifying for the NCAA Championship with nine-straight trips and 33 all-time appearances. Texas is also one of just four schools to make the 54-hole cut in each of the last five seasons at the NCAA Championship (placing among the top 15 teams). The Longhorns won three tournaments in the 2024-25 season and had two student-athletes in Farah O'Keefe and Lauren Kim earn First Team All-SEC honors with Cindy Hsu making the Second Team.
Oregon 3, Texas 2
Romero def. Bohyun Park 3&1
An def. Lauren Kim 1UP (20 holes)
Cindy Hsu def. Vinijchaitham 1UP
Farah O'Keefe def. Tsuru 2&1
Huang def. Angela Heo 3&2
Texas Head Coach Laura Ianello
"I knew today against Oregon was going to be a very tough match. It's a great team, but I knew talent wise, we were toe to toe with them. We got off to kind of a good start for a few holes but then got down early in some matches, For Lauren Kim to come back from four down to go into extra holes, I was insanely proud of her. She's a gamer. Lauren's by far one of the best players in the country, so I knew she had that in her. And so when I saw her starting to climb back and get a couple wins, I was like, okay, she's gonna keep An Tong on her toes. And Farah O'Keefe, too. Farah O'Keefe, you knew she had it in her to come back to win 2&1. Not surprised by that at all. And Cindy Hsu has been so solid in match play this entire year. She's won every match, and she usually wins matches like 4&3 or 5&4 or 6&5 or whatever. The fact that she actually had to go to 18, I bet she was pretty upset. Bohyun Park, our senior, she didn't play for us in the fall. She came on strong for us this spring after really not having played for us much at all in the last year and a half. Hats off to her and her fight for Texas. I told the ladies that they made my first season at Texas really memorable. It's probably one of the best years I've ever had coaching, because they're such amazing young women."
"We had a lot of victories, had some lows, fought through regionals and then to get to the national championship, to make it into match play, and then to lose in sudden death holes gives me a lot of excitement and hope for the future. This is a young team with Farah and Lauren and Cindy, and the talent that we've got coming back for a couple more years at this venue, they know that they can win a national championship here. And I think losing today, they're going to summon those feelings in the future, and they're going to remember today. It's going to win us a national championship in the near future. I know it. I'm proud of them and I'm honored to be their golf coach. I'm honored to be at Texas, and they're really something special. They're champions. I think the more that I can instill that in their hearts, that they know they're champions and that they are worthy of greatness, for now at Texas and then on later in their professional lives as professional golfers or business women or moms or whatever they want to be. They're pretty amazing and I'm just honored and grateful, and I thank them for their amazing work ethic."
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