While students were taking a week off from school, the Oregon women’s golf team competed in two tournaments and shot a total of 1,864 strokes.
The Ducks finished sixth overall March 27 and 28 in the Duck Invitational in Creswell and 16th overall in the PING/ASU Invitational March 31 through April 2 in Tempe, Ariz.
Freshman Cathryn Bristow led the Ducks in both tournaments, finishing ninth overall in Creswell and 14th overall in Tempe.
Oregon played host to three teams in the top 50 with No. 46 Washington State, No. 49 San Jose State, and No. 50 New Mexico State all competing at the Duck Invitational. The rest of the field was made up of Boise State, Fresno State, Idaho, Idaho State, Montana State, Oregon State, Portland, Portland State, San Diego State, San Francisco, Texas-San Antonio and Weber State.
Bristow was joined in the top-30 by senior Erin Andrews, who finished 21st, sophomore Victoria Wenslow at 24th, and junior Therese Wenslow at 26th. Freshman Bristow boasted the team’s best rounds with a 74 in the second and a 72 in the third.
“I started off a little shaky yesterday,” Bristow said in a University press release after the first day of the Duck Invitational. “We can’t worry about the shots we left out there because we have several big events coming up.”
San Jose State took the lead in the second round and edged out Oregon State by one shot to win the Invitational. San Francisco’s Jessica Potter and Washington State’s Anastasia Kostina met in a playoff after the two ended in a tie at 221.
Potter won the playoff after managing to come back in the final round and win with a bogey on the par-5 10th hole.
The second tournament of the break was hosted by Arizona State University in Tempe, Ariz., where weather stayed in the mid-70s and low-80s. Tempe’s Karsten Golf Course is a par-72, 6,230-yard course. The field for the Ducks was extremely competitive. Ten of the tournament’s 16 total teams were ranked in the top-25, including No. 2 UCLA, No. 3 Arizona State, No. 5 Pepperdine, No. 6 USC, No. 10 UNLV, No. 17 Texas A&M, No. 19 Stanford, No. 21 Arizona, No. 22 Long Beach State and No. 24 Washington.
The rest of the teams included Oregon, Missouri, Tulsa, Washington State, Texas and Oregon State.
The Ducks’ Bristow again led the team with an overall 221 – 11 shots behind Arizona’s Adriana Zwanck, who won the three-round tournament.
All other Ducks finished out of the top 40. Andrews finished in 45th, Therese Wenslow in 79th and Michelle Timpani in 91st. Andrews, Wenslow and Timpani all shot rounds in the 80s. Victoria Wenslow was unable to score for the Ducks as she withdrew from the competition Saturday morning. She returned Sunday to shoot a 75.
UCLA lived up to its billing as the best team in the tournament by edging out Arizona State by one shot. Texas A&M finished third, and USC and Pepperdine rounded out the top five.
Oregon has time off to put it together before entering the Pacific-10 Championships. The Ducks travel next to Champaign, Ill., to compete in the Illini Spring Classic on April 14 and 15.