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Top-Seeded Bruins Begin Regional Play on Monday
May 05, 2018 | Women's Golf
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SAN FRANCISCO - The No. 1 overall seed UCLA Bruins head north to TPC Harding Park for the NCAA San Francisco Regional this week. The three-day, 54-hole tournament runs from Monday through Wednesday at the par-72, 6,369-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. Monday's first-round tee times for the Bruins will be from 8 a.m.-8:40 a.m. off the first tee in the order of Legaspi, Galdiano, Wu, Vu and Tavatanakit. Tuesday's second round and Wednesday's final round will start at 8 a.m. off split tees.
Joining the Bruins and host and fifth-ranked Stanford in the 18-team field are #9 South Carolina, #16 Kent State, #17 Oklahoma State, #24 North Carolina, #26 Colorado, #32 Louisville, #33 North Carolina State, #40 Ole Miss, #43 California, #46 San Diego State, #50 Pepperdine, Oregon, Long Beach State, Grand Canyon, Princeton and Fairleigh Dickinson.
A total of 72 teams made the NCAA Regionals at four different sites in San Francisco, Austin, Texas, Madison, Wis. and Tallahassee, Fla. The top six teams from each Regional (54 holes of stroke play) will advance to the NCAA Championships in Stillwater, Okla. (May 18-23) at the Karsten Creek Golf Club.
UCLA has finished first, second or tied for third at all 10 of its tournaments this season, posting six victories. The Bruins won the Pac-12 Conference Championships (April 22-24) by 12 shots, shooting under par in all three rounds with a final score of 4-under 860. It was UCLA's second-straight Pac-12 title. The Bruins' other victories have come at the Stanford Intercollegiate (-3, 849, Oct. 16-18), the Nanea Pac-12 Preview (-20, 564, Oct. 23-24), the Battle at the Beach (-13, 839, Nov. 3-5), the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge (+15, 867, Feb. 11-13) and the Wildcat Invitational (-17, 847, March 5-6). The Bruins also placed second at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (-4, 860, Oct. 1-3) and the Bruin Wave Invitational (+40, 904, Feb. 26-27) and tied for third at the SDSU March Mayhem (+10, 298, March 26, only one round of stroke play) and the Silverado Showdown (+6, 870, April 8-10). UCLA is a combined 20-under par in its second (-12) and third rounds (-8) this season. The Bruins have finished under par in six tournaments and have been under par in 13 of their 27 rounds.
Tavatanakit, an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree and the Pac-12 Golfer of the Month for April, is coming off her third career victory and second in a row, winning a one-hole playoff against Vu at the Pac-12s. She shot an 8-under 208 in Seattle with a pair of 3-under 69s and a 2-under 70. Tavatanakit shared medalist honors at Silverado (-8, 208), 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. The freshman also tied for first at the Stanford Intercollegiate (-6, 207), going under par in all three rounds at that event. Tavatanakit has five Top 10s and hasn't finished worse than T-16 in her eight events. She has 14 under-par rounds and eight in the 60s. Tavatanakit's 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, an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree and the favorite to win the ANNIKA Award, has won four of her eight events, finishing no worse than T-6 in any tournament. She has 18 under-par rounds, with 12 of them in the 60s, which is a single-season school record. 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). She tied for the low score at the Pac-12 Championships (-8, 208) before losing the one-hole playoff to Tavatanakit. Her victory at the Wildcat 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. Her 69.87 scoring average is the best full-season mark in school history.
Wu, who along with Galdiano is one of two Bruins to play in all 10 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, named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team, 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). She tied for 23rd at Pac-12s (+6, 222).
Galdiano, who was named All-Pac-12 First Team, 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 12 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. Galdiano was 29th at Pac-12s (+9, 225), shooting a 1-under 71 in the second round.
Legaspi will be playing in her eighth 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. Legaspi tied for 38th (+13, 229) at Pac-12s.
The Bruins have won an NCAA Regional on eight occasions (2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2005, 2004 and 2002).
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