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Junior Lilia Vu is the defending champion at the Pac-12 Championships, winning by six strokes last season.
#1 Bruins Begin Pac-12 Title Defense on Sunday
April 20, 2018 | Women's Golf
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SEATTLE - The top-ranked Bruins look to go back-to-back at the Pac-12 Championships, which start on Sunday at the Broadmoor Country Club. The three-day, 54-hole tournament runs from Sunday through Tuesday at the par-70, 6,427-yard layout.
The scoring fivesome for UCLA will be juniors Lilia Vu and Beth Wu, sophomores Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi and freshman Patty Tavatanakit. Live scoring will be available here. Sunday's first round tee times for the Bruins will be from 10:10 a.m.-10:42 a.m. in the order of Legaspi, Galdiano, Wu, Vu and Tavatanakit. Monday's tee times will be off split tees starting at 9:30 a.m., while Tuesday's final round will be off split tees beginning at 9 a.m.
The current Golfstat rankings for the Pac-12 Championships following the top-ranked Bruins are #4 Stanford, #6 USC, #9 Arizona, #11 Arizona State, #15 Washington, #25 Colorado, #40 California, #50 Oregon State, #59 Oregon and #68 Washington State.
Last season, UCLA was the only team to finish under par at the Sewailo Golf Club in Tucson, Ariz., shooting a 2-under 862 to win by 21 shots for the program's sixth conference title and first since 2006. The Bruins finished 1-2 in the medalist race, as Vu became the fifth Bruin to take home first-place honors with a 7-under 209 (71-66-72) score. She won by six strokes over her teammate Galdiano (-1, 215), who closed with a 3-under 69.
The Bruins have finished either first, second or tied for third in each of their nine events this season, recording five victories at the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 16-18), the Nanea Pac-12 Preview (Oct. 23-24), the Battle at the Beach (Nov. 3-5), the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge (Feb. 11-13) and the Wildcat Invitational (March 5-6). The Bruins also placed second at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Oct. 1-3) and the Bruin Wave Invitational (Feb. 26-27) and tied for third at the SDSU March Mayhem (March 26, only one round of stroke play) and the Silverado Showdown (April 8-10).
Tavatanakit is coming off her second career victory, sharing medalist honors at the Silverado Showdown (-8, 208). She was under par in all three rounds, getting better each day with a 1-under 71, a 3-under 69 and a 4-under 68, including two birdies on her last three holes to tie for the win. Tavatanakit also won at the Stanford Intercollegiate (-6, 207), going under par in all three rounds at that event. The freshman has four Top 10s and hasn't finished worse than T-16 in her seven events. Tavatanakit has 11 under-par rounds and six in the 60s. Her best under-par round was a 5-under 68 in the second round at Nanea, where she placed third (-5, 141), while her low score was a 4-under 67 to close out her win at Stanford. Tavatanakit opened her career with a second-place finish at the ANNIKA (-5, 211).
Vu, the top-ranked amateur in the world, who was named to the U.S. Curtis Cup Match team this week and was the top amateur at last month's LPGA Tour major, the ANA Inspiration (T-40, -3, 285), has won four of her seven events, finishing no worse than T-6 in any tournament. She has 15 under-par rounds, with 11 of them in the 60s. Vu's four wins, all in a row, came at the Battle at the Beach (-8, 205), the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge (-1, 212), the Bruin Wave Invitational (-1, 215) and the Wildcat Invitational (-14, 202). Her victory at the Wildcat, at the same course as last year's Pac-12s, was the eighth of her career to set a new UCLA record, while her 14-under score was the best 54-hole total in school history. The winner of three Pac-12 Golfer of the Month awards this season, Vu was second at Nanea (-7, 139), T-5 at Silverado (-3, 213) and T-6 at Stanford (E, 213). Vu's best round of the year was an 8-under 64 to open the Wildcat Invite.
Wu, who along with Galdiano is one of two Bruins to play in all nine events this season, has four Top 10s and five Top 20s. She has shot seven under-par rounds and a pair in the 60s. Wu was fourth at Nanea (-4, 142), finishing with a 5-under 68. She also tied for sixth at both the Stanford Intercollegiate (E, 213) and the Battle at the Beach (-3, 210), the latter tournament shooting a final-round, 5-under 66. Wu opened the fall with a fifth-place showing at the NGRC (+2, 215), while posting a pair of under-par rounds to close out a T-16 showing at the ANNIKA (+1, 217).
Galdiano, who was also named to the U.S. Curtis Cup Match team this week, placed second in the single round of stroke play at SDSU, shooting a 2-under 70. It was her fourth Top 10 of the season and seventh Top 20, as Galdiano has 11 under-par rounds and six rounds in the 60s. The sophomore was under par in all three rounds at the Wildcat Invite, where she was second to Vu with a total of 11-under 205. Galdiano also tied for fourth at the Bruin Wave (+8, 224), tied for fifth at Nanea (-2, 144), was 11th at Stanford (+3, 216) and tied for 11th at both the ANNIKA (-1, 215) and the Battle of the Beach (E, 213). Her season-low round came in the final trip at the Wildcat when she shot a 5-under 67.
Legaspi will be playing in her seventh event and has a pair of Top 20s, tying for 11th at Nanea (+1, 147) and tying for 16th at the ANNIKA (+1, 217). She has three under-par rounds, shooting a 2-under 69 to open the Battle at the Beach (T-42, +9, 222), a 2-under 70 in her middle round at the ANNIKA and a 1-under 72 in the opening round at Nanea.
Television coverage of the Pac-12 Championships will air on tape delay on Pac-12 Networks (Tuesday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m.).
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