Hosted by Mississippi State head coach and former Texas Tech men’s golf volunteer Charlie Ewing, the eight-team field includes defending national champion Stanford, conference rivals Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, as well as former Big 12 foe Texas A&M.
One of the strongest fields in college golf this weekend, with seven of the eight teams finishing the 2022 season in the top 35 (Golf State Team Rankings) and five teams ranked in the top-25.
The course:
Historic Pebble Beach Golf Links: Par 72, 6156 yards
Format:
54-hole scratch play, each team plays six players (top-five scores count)
Field (2022 Final Golfstat Rankings):
Arkansas (20)
Mississippi State (31)
Oklahoma (51)
Oklahoma State (15)
Stanford (1)
Texas A&M (10)
Texas Tech (25)
Vanderbilt (32)
The procession:
1) Gala Dumez (10:58 AM)
2) Chiara Hoarder (10:50 AM)
3) Shannon Tan (10:34 AM)
4) Cecilia Nielsen (10:26 AM)
5) Lauren Zaretsky (10:18 AM)
6) Libby Fleming (10:02 AM)
Stories:
• Tech women’s golf opens the 2022-23 season with the prestigious Carmel Cup. The field includes a pair of top-10 teams and five in the top-25 of the latest GolfStat rankings.
• Head coach Jojo Robertson A pair of true freshman starts this weekend, in Shannon Tan and Lauren Zaretsky.
• A native of Singapore, Tan joins the Red Raiders after a very successful junior/amateur career that featured eight wins, 11 top-10 finishes and a career-best world ranking of 51st.
• Tan has won five times in 2021, competing in the KLPGA Hanna Financial Group Championship and the prestigious Augusta National Women’s Amateur.
• Tech should replace elderly Valetina Gilly and. Amy Taylor. Taylor is currently playing professionally on the LET Access Series Tour.
Next:
Texas Tech returns to action on Monday (Sept. 12), a week away from the two-day Dick McGuire Invitational at the University of New Mexico.
