Oregon senior golfer Jerilyn White played two spectacular rounds of golf at the Arizona Wildcat Invitational this week, and she ended the tournament in seventh place.
Unfortunately for the Oregon women’s golf team, White’s score couldn’t count four times.
Oregon finished 15th out of 16 teams at their first tournament of 2001, which ended Wednesday. White was the only Duck golfer to finish in the top 35 individually.
“Jerilyn’s last two days were awesome,” Oregon head coach Shannon Rouillard said. “[The tournament] was a growing experience. We got a foundation to see what we need to work on.”
Arizona, who hosted the three-day tournament, won by eight strokes over Stanford. The Wildcats’ Lorena Ochoa won the individual title, five strokes ahead of White.
Junior Kathy Cho was the second-best Oregon finisher, carding a 230 to finish 37th. Redshirt freshman Lacy Erickson finished 77th with a 245, while seniors Dawn Berry (87th) and Claire Hunter (91st) also placed. Freshman Katie Cunningham finished 92nd.
The tournament was the first for the Ducks in the winter/spring season. Oregon will play three more tournaments this spring before participating in the Pacific-10 Conference Championships May 10-25.
If the Pac-10 Championships had been held in Arizona this week, Oregon would have finished last in the conference. Southern California finished fourth in the 15-team field, Washington finished eighth, UCLA finished 11th and California finished 14th, six strokes ahead of the Ducks.
Oregon will next play in the GTE “Mo”morial March 5-6 in Houston, Texas.