The University of Texas at Austin Athletics
2020-21 Women's Golf Roster
Roster
Sara Kouskova
- Class:
- Junior
- High School:
- Gymnazium Oty Pavla
- Hometown:
- Prague, Czech Republic
- Major:
- Studio Art
PRONUNCIATION: KOOS-co-VUH
HONORS AND AWARDS
• Golfweek All-America (2021 & 2022 Third Team)
• WGCA All-America (2021 & 2022 Honorable Mention)
• 2-time All-Big 12 Conference (2019, 2021)
• 2-time Big 12 All-Tournament Team (2019, 2022)
• WGCA Edith Cummings Munson Award (2020-21)
• 4-time WGCA All-American Scholar (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022)
• 3-time First-Team Academic All-Big 12 (2020, 2021 & 2022)
• 2019 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
• 7-time member of Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll (Fall 2018, Spring 2019, Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Spring 2021, Fall 2021)
• Invited and competed in 2022 Augusta National Women's Amateur
• 3-time Czech Amateur Player of the Year
• Member of Czech National Team since 2013, competing in the European Team Championships each of last eight years.
• Czech Republic's No. 1-ranked player for the past four years.
• Won the Amundi Czech Ladies Challenge under the LET Access Tour in June, 2021. That win made Czech history as she became the first-ever Czech player to win a LETAS event and the first Czech amateur to win a professional event.
SENIOR (2021-22)
• Honorable All-American selection by WGCA
• Competed in 11 tournaments and 34 rounds, with a stroke average of 73.24
• Tallied 12 rounds of par or better and five rounds in the 60s
• Recorded eight top-20 finishes and three top-10 finishes
• 31 of her 34 rounds counted towards the team score
• Registered a season-best second place finish at the Stanford Intercollegiate with a 54-hole score of 12-under-par 201 [68-67-66]. The individual 54-hole score of 201 ranks second all-time in program history.
• Tied her collegiate-best 18-hole score of 66 during the final round at Stanford, which ranks tied for eighth all-time in program history for individual 18-hole scores.
• Tied sophomore Bentley Cotton for the lowest round by a Longhorn on the season at 66.
• Competed at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur
• Member of Fall 2021 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
• Earned First-Team Academic All-Big 12 & WGCA All-American Sholar honors
JUNIOR (2020-21)
• A Golfweek Third-Team All-American. Also named Honorable All-American selection by WGCA
• Earned All-Big 12 honors
• Won WGCA Edith Cummings Munson Award, an honor presented annually to the student-athlete who is an upperclassman and both a WGCA All-American Scholar and a WGCA All-American.
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Tabbed First-Team Academic All-Big 12
• Member of Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
• Played in eight tournaments and 25 rounds, with a stroke average of 72.42
• Posted 14 rounds of par or better
• Finished in first place at the Wildcat Invitational with a three-round score of 206, tied for the fifth-best 54-hole effort in UT history
• Posted two top-10 individual finishes, four top-15 finisher and six top-20 finishes
• Carded a team-best 14 rounds at par or better
• Turned in a season-best round of 68 twice at the Wildcat Invitational
• Helped the Longhorns advance to the quarterfinal round of stroke play and a tie for fifth place at the NCAA Championships
• Won her individual match versus in the NCAA Quarterfinals versus Mississippi State
• Helped Texas finish second at the NCAA Louisville Regional to advance to the NCAA Championships
SOPHOMORE (2019-20)
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Tabbed First-Team Academic All-Big 12
• Listed on Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
• Participated in six tournaments and 18 rounds as a sophomore in 2019-20.
• Recorded a stroke average of 72.17, which went down as the fifth-best single-season stroke average in program history.
• Eight of her rounds came at par or better and 13 of her rounds counted towards the team score.
• Charted her second career top-five finish with a third-place showing at the White Sands Invitational. Turned in a seven-under-par 209 [69-68-72].
• Tied for sixth at the Betsy Rawls Invitational with a five-under-par 211 [71-73-67]. Her third-round 67 tied for the second-best round of her collegiate career.
FRESHMAN (2018-19)
• An All-Big 12 Conference selection and a member of the Big 12 All-Tournament Team in 2019.
• WGCA All-American Scholar
• Member of Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
• Listed on Fall 2018 and Spring 2019 Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll
• Competed in 11 tournaments and 33 rounds as a freshman for the Longhorns, recording a stroke average of 73.36.
• Recorded 13 rounds at par or better on the year and 26 of her rounds counted towards the team score.
• Carded eight top-20 individual finishes on the season.
• Tied for second at the 2019 Big 12 Conference Championship, firing a five-over-par 221 [67-80-74].
• Posted her first collegiate top-10 finish at the Schooner Fall Classic with a six-under-par 207 [66-70-71]. That tied for the fourth-best 54-hole total in program history.
• Advanced to the round of 16 at the 2019 British Women’s Amateur Championship in Newcastle, Northern Ireland.
PREP
• Part of the nation's No. 3 recruiting class for the Class of 2018, according to Golfweek, along with teammate Hailee Cooper.
• A member of the Czech National Team since 2013 and was the top-ranked U18 golfer in the Czech Republic.
• Represented her country at the Women's World Team Amateur Championship in Maynooth, Ireland, in August 2018.
• Finished eighth at the 2018 European Ladies Amateur Championship with a five-under-par total of 283 [67-72-71-73], finishing the week with 13 birdies and 51 pars.
• Made the cut at the 2018 Ladies British Open Amateur Championship and advanced to the third round of match play.
• Participated in two Ladies European Tour Access Series events in 2017, making two cuts and earning Best Amateur honors at the VP Bank Ladies Open in May 2017 where she finished 14th.
• Placed 10th at the 2017 Ladies European Championship in Switzerland. Also advanced to the quarterfinals at the 2017 Ladies British Open Amateur Championship.
• The 2016 Slovak Ladies Amateur Champion and finished tied for seventh at the 2016 ANNIKA Invitational Europe.
• Made her first cut at a professional tournament in 2016, finishing tied for 54th place at the Tipsport Golf Masters, an event on the Ladies European Tour.
• Won the 2015 Austrian International Ladies Amateur Championship, shooting a course-record 66 in the second round.
• The Czech national match play and stroke play runner-up in 2015 and helped her team to a fourth-place finish at the European Girls Team Championship in 2016.
• The 2010 Czech Rookie of the Year.
PERSONAL
• Parents are Tomas and Lenka Kouskova.
• Born July 2, 1999 in Prague, Czech Republic.
• Began playing golf when she was five years old.
• Won her first tournament in a chip & putt course as a six year old.
• Majoring in studio art.
CAREER STATISTICS
|
Year |
Events |
Rounds |
Strokes |
Stroke Avg. |
Low Round |
Best Finish |
| 2021-22 | 11 | 34 | 2,490 | 73.24 | 66 |
2 |
|
2020-21 |
8 |
25 |
1,804 |
72.16 |
68 |
1 |
|
2019-20 |
6 |
18 |
1,299 |
72.17 |
67 |
3 |
|
2018-19 |
11 |
33 |
2,421 |
73.36 |
66 |
T2 |
|
Career |
36 |
110 |
8,014 |
72.85 |
66 |
1 |
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