The Bulldog Lineup 2016 NCAA Championships
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Georgia 2016 NCAA ChAmpioNships • mAy 20-25 • EugENE CouNtry Club • pAr 72; 6331/6369 yArds • EugENE, orEgoN Bulldogs Travel To NCAAs The Georgia women’s golf team will trek to Eugene, Oregon, this week to compete in the THE BULLDOG LINEUP 2016 NCAA Championships. The NCAAs will be 1. BAILEY TARDY • Only golfer on lists for WGCA National Golfer & Fresh. of Year contested from May 20-25 at the Eugene Coun- 5-8; Fr.; Peachtree Corners, Ga. Norcross High School • 2016 U.S. Women’s Open qualifier try Club. • Individually, ranked No. 3 by Golf- The Bulldogs are the No. 6 seed and are look- ROUNDS AVG. LOw POBS TOP 10/20 week and No. 4 by Golfstat ing to capitalize on the momentum from sweep- 29 71.90 67 (-5) 20 8/10 • U.S. team for 2016 Curtis Cup ing the team and individual titles at the NCAA Bryan Regional two weeks. Freshman Bailey 2. JILLIAN HOLLIS • Individually, ranked No. 18 by Tardy tied with UCLA’s Bronte Law for medalist 5-5; Fr.; Rocky River, Ohio Golfweek and No. 40 by Golfstat • Second-best score in school history Magnificat High School honors at 7-under 209 in Texas, pacing Georgia (11-under) to win Mountain View to a 6-under 858 that provided a six-shot separa- ROUNDS AVG. LOw POBS TOP 10/20 • One shot off school record with 66 tion from the field. to open Mountain View The NCAAs will consists of 24 teams and 12 28 72.32 66 (-6) 13 6/7 individuals competing in 54 holes of stroke play 3. RINKO Mitsunaga • Individually, ranked No. 82 by from Friday-Sunday. Following the third round, 5-3; Fr.; Roswell, Ga. Golfstat and No. 94 by Golfweek the field will be trimmed to 15 teams and the IMG Academy • One of two – along with Harang top-nine individuals not on those teams for a Lee – in lineup for every event ROUNDS AVG. LOw POBS TOP 10/20 fourth loop of stroke play on Monday. • Won Lady Bulldog Individual, a one-day, 36-hole event The 72-hole results will be used to determine 32 73.66 67 (-5) 7 3/7 the NCAA medalist and the top-eight teams • Individually, ranked No. 10 by Golf- advancing to a match play bracket. The NCAAs 4. HARANG LEE 5-9; Jr.; Castro Uridales, Spain week and No. 17 by Golfstat will continue with match play quarterfinals and Instito Ortega Y Gassett • Two-time runner-up – at Cardinal semifinals on Tuesday and the championship Kickoff and Liz Murphey match on Wednesday. ROUNDS AVG. LOw POBS TOP 10/20 • Four top-10s – and two more top- Georgia sports one of the nation’s most 32 72.41 67 (-4) 16 7/10 20s – in last six Spanish Ams storied histories in women’s golf, with 20 top- • Notched career-bests for both finish 10 and 25 top-20 team finishes over the past 37 5. MaRY ELLEN SHUMAN 5-7; Jr.; St. Simons Island, Ga. (t-9th at the Cardinal Kickoff) and national championships. However, the Bulldogs Frederica Academy low round (even-par 71 in Darius are returning to the team field at the NCAAs for Rucker 2nd) during 2015-16 the first time since 2009. ROUNDS AVG. LOw POBS TOP 10/20 • Missed second top-10 by one Georgia appears ready to supply a notewor- 13 76.77 71 (E) 1 1/2 stroke at Lady Bulldog Individual thy addition to its competitive résumé. The Bulldogs have won nine titles this season – five team and four individual. That equals the That lineup features a trio of freshmen in Hol- The Bulldogs' history third-most in Georgia Golf history and the most lis, Mitsunaga and Tardy. They have combined In National Championships since earning 10 trophies en route to an NCAA to produce all four of Georgia’s individual wins The University of Georgia has been one of the runner-up finish in 1998-99. this season, as well as 17 top-10s, 24 top-20s nation’s premier women’s college golf programs The five team wins match the third-most in and 40 par-or-better rounds. for more than three decades. UGA annals, while the four individual crowns “Although we’ve never played in the NCAAs, The Bulldogs have posted 20 top-10 and 25 ties the program’s second-most ever. before, we’ve played in enough golf tourna- top-20 team finishes at AIAW and NCAA Cham- Georgia is a combined 34-18-2 in head-to- ments throughout our whole careers that we’re pionships since 1979, including winning the head stroke play matchups with teams in the capable of treating this like any other tourna- 2001 NCAA title. From 1998-08, Georgia posted NCAA Championships field. Florida State and ment,” Mitsunaga said. “It’s going to be fun, and nine top-10 finishes in 11 NCAAs, as well as an BYU are the only two teams UGA is yet to face. I’m really excited.” 11th-place showing in 2003. In seed succession order, Georgia is: 1-3 vs. Positive signs have surrounded the Bulldogs In addition to the team success, three Bull- Alabama, 3-1 vs. Southern Cal, 1-2 vs. UCLA, 2-1 since the season began when Georgia won the dogs have claimed individual national titles. vs. Florida, 1-1 vs. Duke, 2-2-1 vs. Northwestern, Cardinal Kickoff, a one-day, 36-hole event. Terri Moody earned medalist honors at the 1-1 vs. Oklahoma State, 2-0-1 vs. Arizona, 2-3 vs. The Bulldogs have spent the entire season 1981 AIAW Championships at the UGA Golf Arkansas, 0-1 vs. Stanford, 1-0 vs. Washington, ranked among the nation’s top-10 teams, includ- Course, while Cindy Schreyer and Vicki Goetze 2-1 vs. Virginia, 2-1 vs. South Carolina, 3-0 vs. ing a stint at No. 2 in the fall. The path to such took home individual crowns at the 1984 and Furman, 1-0 vs. Oregon, 3-0 vs. Tennessee, 1-0 success has been diverse. 1992 NCAA Championships, respectively. vs. Texas, 2-0 vs. Ohio State, 1-0 vs. Miami, 1-1 Georgia used four different lineups during the Twenty Georgia golfers have combined to re- vs. North Carolina and 2-0 vs. Michigan. five team victories. This season also marked the cord 21 top-10 and 36 top-20 individual finishes The playing five for the NCAAs will feature first time three different Bulldogs captured med- at the national championships, most recently Tardy, Jillian Hollis, Rinko Mitsunaga, Harang alist honors since UGA’s 2001 NCAA Champion- Marta Silva Zamora’s fourth-place performance Lee and Mary Ellen Shuman. ship season. in 2011. 2001 TEAM NATIONAL CHAMPIONS • 20 Top-10 team finishes at the National Championships Since 1979 • T HREE INDIVIDuaL NatiONAL CHAMPIONS (1981, 1984, 1992) Page 2 – GEORGIA GOLF 2016 NCAA Championships Notes UGA's Record-setting Page Jillian Hollis, Harang Lee and Rinko Mitsu- The Bulldogs’ season has been littered with naga also earned SEC honors. record-setting performances in virtually every Tardy also was named first-team All-SEC statistical category. Flip to page 4 of these and to the SEC All-Freshman team. Lee was notes you’ll see the updated version of Geor- tabbed first-team All-SEC. Hollis secured both gia Golf’s team and individual records with second-team All-SEC and SEC All-Freshman everything accomplished by members of this recognition. Mitsunaga was featured on the year’s team (including individual marks from SEC All-Freshman unit. previous seasons) indicated in bold-face type. Tardy leads the Bulldogs in both stroke Georgia will shatter its season stroke aver- average and par-or-better rounds. age record. Tardy is Georgia’s eighth SEC Freshman The Bulldogs enter the NCAA Champion- of the Year honoree all time, joining Tina ships with a 288.67 mark that is nearly six Paternostro (1989), Luciana Bemvenuti (1991), strokes per round better than the current Vicki Goetze (1992), Erin O’Neil (1994), Shauna record of 294.50 in 2006-07. Estes (1997), Rankin (1998), Taylor Leon (2006) During the 2015-16 campaign, Georgia has and Marta Silva Zamora (2009). posted par-or-better team scores in seven Lee sports four top-5 and 10 top-20 finishes of 11 its tournaments. By comparison, the in 12 tournaments played this season. Bulldogs shot par or better on six occasions Hollis has a 72.32 average, including a team- during their first 35 seasons – and 413 tourna- low 6-under 66. ments – of intercollegiate competition. Mitsunaga won the Lady Bulldog Individual In the process, the Bulldogs have posted Championship in February. four of the five best team scores in school history and their lowest single round ever, a t Bailey Tardy shot 5-under on the back nine of the Harang Bounces Back 13-under 275 on the second day of the Mason final round at the Windy City Collegiate to finish If a “Comeback Player of the Year” is Rudolph Championship. at 12-under and break Reilley Rankin’s 17-year-old Georgia awarded in college golf, Georgia’s Harang Individually, Bailey Tardy, Jillian Hollis, and tournament record by a stroke. (pronounced uh-rahn) Lee would likely be the Harang Lee sport stroke averages that would Tardy Earns Open Spot leading candidate. rank No. 2, No. 3 and No. 4, respectively, Bailey Tardy warmed up for the NCAA Lee enters the NCAA Championships among Georgia’s all-time top-10 efforts.