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ANNIKA Intercollegiate presented by 3M
Senior Beth Wu was one of two Bruins to play in all 12 events last season.
No. 1 Bruins Open Season at ANNIKA Intercollegiate
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LAKE ELMO, Minn. - The top-ranked Bruins open their 2018-2019 season at the Royal Golf Club, as they tee it up for the ANNIKA Intercollegiate presented by 3M. The 54-hole, three-day tournament runs from Monday through Wednesday at the par-72, 6,267-yard layout.
The starting fivesome for the Bruins will be seniors Lilia Vu and Beth Wu, juniors Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi and sophomore Patty Tavatanakit. Monday's play for the Bruins will start at 7 a.m. PT/9 a.m. CT off the first tee in the order of Galdiano, Wu, Legaspi, Tavatanakit and Vu. Second-round play on Tuesday will begin off split tees at 7 a.m. PT/9 a.m. CT, which will be the same time final-round action starts on Wednesday.
Joining the Bruins in the 12-team field are No. 2 Alabama, No. 3 Arkansas, No. 4 Stanford, No. 5 Duke, No. 6 USC, No. 7 Arizona, No. 8 Texas, No. 9 South Carolina, No. 11 Northwestern, No. 19 Oklahoma State and Minnesota (rankings courtesy of WGCA Preseason Coaches Poll).
Last year, the Bruins tied a single-season record with seven victories, finishing first in the stroke-play portion of the NCAA Championships, the Pac-12 Championships, the Stanford Intercollegiate, the Nanea Pac-12 Preview, the Battle at the Beach, the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge and the Wildcat Invitational. UCLA finished second or tied for third in its other five tournaments. The Bruins finished under par in seven tournaments and were under par in 16 of their 34 rounds.
Vu, the PING WGCA Player and Pac-12 Golfer of the Year, posted a 70.37 scoring average last season, the lowest full-season scoring average in UCLA history. She won four times and posted nine Top 10s, including a T-7 at the NCAA Championships. Vu had 20 under-par rounds to tie a single-season school record, with 13 of them being in the 60s, which set a school record. Vu's four wins, all in a row, came at the Battle at the Beach, the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge, the Bruin Wave Invitational and the Wildcat Invitational. She also tied for the low score at the Pac-12 Championships before losing a one-hole playoff to Tavatanakit. Vu's 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. She was a three-time Pac-12 Golfer of the Month, WGCA First Team All-American and All-Pac-12 First Team selection.
Wu, who along with Galdiano, was one of two Bruins to play in all 12 events last season, had four Top 10s and five Top 20s. She shot eight under-par rounds and a pair in the 60s. Wu, named to the All-Pac-12 Second Team, was fourth at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview, fifth at the NGRC and T-6 at the Stanford Intercollegiate and the Battle at the Beach.
Galdiano, who was named All-Pac-12 First Team, finished last season on a high note, tying for third at the San Francisco Regional and tying for seventh at the NCAA Championship, finishing under par in both tournaments. She had six top 10s and nine Top 20s, recording 16 under-par rounds and nine in the 60s. Galdiano was second in the single round of stroke play at the SDSU March Mayhem, as well as the Wildcat Invitational. She also tied for fourth at the Bruin Wave and tied for fifth at Nanea.
Legaspi had a pair of Top 20s a year ago, tying for 11th at Nanea and tying for 16th at last season's ANNIKA. She recorded three under-par rounds, including a 2-under 70 in her middle round at the 2017 ANNIKA.
Tavatanakit, the WGCA and Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, won four times in her freshman campaign to tie the UCLA single-season record for victories and set a new freshman mark for one season at UCLA. She didn't finish outside the Top 20 in any of her 10 events, posting six Top 10s. Of her 18 under-par rounds, 10 were in the 60s, as her 70.79 stroke average was the third-lowest, full-season scoring average in program history. Tavatanakit won last year at the Stanford Intercollegiate, the Silverado Showdown, the Pac-12 Championships and the NCAA San Francisco Regional. She was second at the ANNIKA a year ago. Tavatanakit was honored as a WGCA First Team All-American, an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree and the Pac-12 Golfer of the Month for April.
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