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Sophomore Clare Legaspi went 3-1-1 in match play last season.
#1 UCLA Enters the Madness at SDSU March Mayhem
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RANCHO SANTA FE, Calif. - The top-ranked Bruins head to the Farms Golf Club this week for some stroke and match play at the SDSU March Mayhem. The tournament format will feature 18 holes of stroke play on Monday morning, followed by 18 holes of match play Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday at the par-72, 6,237-yard layout.
The starting fivesome for the Bruins will be senior Erin Choi, junior Beth Wu, sophomores Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi and freshman Patty Tavatanakit. Live scoring for the event will be available here. Junior Lilia Vu, the top-ranked amateur in the world, will miss the event as she takes part in this weekend's first LPGA Tour major, the ANA Inspiration.
Monday's stroke play will be a shotgun start at 8 a.m., followed by the first round of match play around 1 p.m. The top eight teams after 18 holes of stroke play will be seeded and placed in the championship bracket, with seeds nine through 12 playing round-robin matches. Play on Tuesday and Wednesday will also be shotgun starts at 8:30 a.m.
Joining the Bruins and host and #47 San Diego State in the 12-team field are #4 Stanford, #6 Texas, #10 USC, #13 Northwestern, #18 Colorado, #37 Iowa State, #39 Baylor, #44 BYU, #49 Pepperdine and #58 California.
UCLA, which will be taking part in its first match play tournament of the season, has won five times in 2017-2018, finishing second in its other two events. The Bruins were triumphant in their last tournament, the Wildcat Invitational (March 5-6), with Vu breaking a school record with her eighth career victory and setting a new program mark with a 54-hole total of 14-under 202.
In the Bruins' most recent match play event last March 13-14, they won the Gifford Great 8 Collegiate Match Play at Brentwood Country Club. UCLA played two match play tournaments last season, finishing fourth at the East Lake Cup (Oct. 31-Nov. 2) after finishing second in stroke play.
Along with previous match play experience away from UCLA, Choi, Galdiano, Legaspi and Wu have all appeared in match play events as Bruins. Choi is 2-3-1 in her career in match play, going 1-1-1 at the Gifford last year and 1-2 at the Liz Murphey Collegiate Classic as a freshman. Wu is 7-5-2 in two seasons of collegiate match play, going 1-0-2 at the Gifford Great 8, 0-2 at the East Lake Cup, 4-0 at the 2016 edition of the SDSU March Mayhem, 1-2 at the 2016 Liz Murphey and 1-1 at the '16 NCAA Championships. Galdiano was 2-3 in match play as a freshman, going 0-2 at the East Lake Cup and 2-1 at the Gifford Great 8. Legaspi went 3-1-1 last year in match play, including 2-0 at East Lake and 1-1-1 at the Gifford Great 8. Tavatanakit, who is playing in her first collegiate match play event, is coming off earning 4 1/2 points for the Asia-Pacific team at the Patsy Hankins Trophy earlier this month.
UCLA is playing in this tournament for the third time. In 2014, when it was mainly a stroke play event, the Bruins tied for second. UCLA placed third in 2016 when the SDSU March Mayhem was all match play.
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