Stanford has wrapped up the regional championship and punched its ticket to La Costa in 2 weeks next week.
Round 3 presented the toughest scoring conditions of the week. The wind was reported to have been milder today. My guess is that they sped up the greens.
Stanford posted the lowest score of the day at +1. For the 3rd consecutive day, they were led by a different player. Megha Ganne caught fire on the back 9, shooting a 31 (-5) for a round of 67. Rachel Heck and Kelly Xu were steady at 71 and 73 respectively. Paula Martin Sampedro and Sadie Englemann both were wobbly at 78. Need to clean that up for NCAAs.
Overall, Stanford players were 1, 2, T3 and T3:
1. Heck -8
2. Xu -4
T3. Martin Sampedro -2
T3. Ganne -2
Across the other regionals, the results were pretty much chalk. UCLA (ranked 4th), South Carolina (2nd), Northwestern (8th) and Texas A&M (12th) all had to sweat out their final rounds, but all eventually qualified. Arizona at 16th is the highest ranked team not to make it.
After 2 consecutive tournaments in the cold and wind of central and eastern Washington, Stanford now will look forward to mild, seaside conditions on a newly renovated course at La Costa near San Diego for the NCAAs. It has been closed for over a year for reconstruction so no one has played this course before. No one has a feel for the greens and how the course will play. It will be interesting indeed to see how the players react and adjust.
Round 3 presented the toughest scoring conditions of the week. The wind was reported to have been milder today. My guess is that they sped up the greens.
Stanford posted the lowest score of the day at +1. For the 3rd consecutive day, they were led by a different player. Megha Ganne caught fire on the back 9, shooting a 31 (-5) for a round of 67. Rachel Heck and Kelly Xu were steady at 71 and 73 respectively. Paula Martin Sampedro and Sadie Englemann both were wobbly at 78. Need to clean that up for NCAAs.
Overall, Stanford players were 1, 2, T3 and T3:
1. Heck -8
2. Xu -4
T3. Martin Sampedro -2
T3. Ganne -2
Across the other regionals, the results were pretty much chalk. UCLA (ranked 4th), South Carolina (2nd), Northwestern (8th) and Texas A&M (12th) all had to sweat out their final rounds, but all eventually qualified. Arizona at 16th is the highest ranked team not to make it.
After 2 consecutive tournaments in the cold and wind of central and eastern Washington, Stanford now will look forward to mild, seaside conditions on a newly renovated course at La Costa near San Diego for the NCAAs. It has been closed for over a year for reconstruction so no one has played this course before. No one has a feel for the greens and how the course will play. It will be interesting indeed to see how the players react and adjust.
"We have an unwritten rule around here not to do anything stupid."
-Casey Jacobsen, Feb 3, 2000