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Bruins to Compete at Windy City Collegiate Classic
September 28, 2023 | Women's Golf
LOS ANGELES – The UCLA women's golf team competes at the Windy City Collegiate Classic at Glen View Club in Golf, Ill., beginning Monday, Oct. 2.
The two-day, 54-hole stroke play event features 15 teams. The Bruins will play 36 continuous holes on Monday and finish the tournament with 18 holes on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Follow the action at this GolfStat live scoring link.
UCLA Lineup: Meghan Royal, Alessia Nobilio, Caroline Canales, Kate Villegas and Zoe Antoinette Campos.
The Field: Arizona, No. 24 Arizona State, Auburn, No. 23 Duke, No. 19 Georgia, Illinois, Iowa State, Louisville, Northwestern (host), No. 2 Oregon, No. 7 USC, No. 12 Texas, UCLA, No. 21 Virginia and No. 4 Wake Forest.
Weather Report: Sunny skies, temperature highs in the mid 80s.
Par and Yardage: Par 72, 6,368 yards.
Last Time Out
A third-round surge pushed the Bruins to an eighth-place finish (-6, 858) at the Mason Rudolph Championship in Franklin, Tenn. to begin the season last week. UCLA fired a tournament-low 15-under 273 on day three which is good for the fifth lowest 18-hole score in program history and best since 2018. All five Bruins shot under par in the third round.
Sophomore Meghan Royal rose 57 total spots on the leaderboard over days two and three, firing the two lowest rounds of her career back-to-back (69-67). Royal finished the tournament t-20th (-3) for the first top 20 of her career. Royal posted a bogey-free 5-under 67 in the third round.
Nobilio matched her former career low score in round three with a 4-under 68. Campos also signed off on a bogey-free scorecard with a 4-under 68 of her own.
2022-23 In Review
UCLA's season was highlighted by six top 3 finishes, including three team victories at The Match in the Desert, The Beach Invitational and the inaugural Battle for the Bell versus crosstown rival USC. UCLA's best 54-hole score came at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic where it shot 10-under (286-283-285).
Leading the charge in 2022-23 was Campos who earned consensus first-team All-American acclaim and was named an ANNIKA Award Top 10 Finalist. Campos led UCLA with a 71.42 scoring average which ranked 20th in the NCAA and sixth all-time for a single season in school history. She won the first two events of her collegiate career in back-to-back tournaments at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic and Silverado Showdown. Campos also led UCLA with eight top 10s and finished outside the top 20 only once in 10 stroke play tournaments. She ended the season ranked as the No. 7 golfer in the nation, per Golfweek.
Joining Campos on the All-Pac-12 Team was Canales who averaged 72.9 strokes per round. The Calabasas, Calif. native also ranked second behind Campos with six top 10s and nine top 20s. She claimed the first medal of her collegiate career and shot UCLA's lowest round of the season when she tied for first at The Match in the Desert with a 7-under 65.
The Bruins earned an NCAA Regionals (San Antonio) berth for the 23rd straight season in 2022-23 before failing to make the four-team cut line to advance to the NCAA Championships. Campos finished runner-up at the event at 4-under (70-72-70) and failed to qualify for the NCAA Championships as an individual.
Campos Named to ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List
For the sixth straight year, UCLA has had a golfer named to the ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List. Zoe Antoinette Campos was the latest honoree earlier this September. Two Bruins have won the ANNIKA Award: Alison Lee (2014) and Bronte Law (2016).
Past ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List Honorees
2022-23: Zoe Antoinette Campos
2021-22: Alessia Nobilio
2020-21: Alessia Nobilio, Emma Spitz
2019-20: Emma Spitz
2018-19: Mariel Galdiano, Patty Tavatanakit, Lilia Vu
2017-18: Patty Tavatanakit, Lilia Vu
Villegas Dominates Summer Competition
Villegas, a two-time All-Big West recipient prior to transferring from UC Riverside, won three Southern California Golf Associations (SCGA) titles in Summer 2023. Most recently, Villegas won the 27th California Women's Championship in Ojai, Calif. on Aug. 10 after sinking a birdie in the first hole of a four-way playoff to finish 4-under (65-73-71). Villegas also won the 57th California Women's Amateur Championship at La Cumbre Country Club and became the first to repeat as champion in the SCGA Match Play Women's Division on July 12.
Alongside her UC Riverside transfer counterpart Tiffany Le, the two finished runner-up in the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship on May 17 at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash.
Canales and the U.S Women's Amateur
The rising junior reached the Round of 32 of the 123rd U.S. Women's Amateur as the No. 5 seed at Bel-Air Country Club earlier this summer. Canales trailed two down in the Round of 64 before winning four holes on the back nine to advance.
What's New, Bru?
The new-look Bruins are composed of four transfers and one freshman for a total of five newcomers, UCLA's most since the 2019-20 season.
The transfers include Tiffany Le and Villegas from UC Riverside, Royal from Arkansas and Natalie Vo from Colorado. Jennifer Seo from Chandler, Ariz. is the singular freshman in this year's class.
A New Era
On May 25, 2023, UCLA Athletic announced Alicia Um Holmes as the next head coach of the UCLA women's golf team. Um Holmes, who spent the last 17 years as an assistant and associate head coach for the Bruins, is the fifth head coach in the program's history.
Alongside UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth, Um Holmes helped guide the Bruins to the 2011 NCAA Championship, five NCAA Regional titles and two Pac-12 Championships. Beginning her first year as an assistant in 2006, Um Holmes and Forsyth went on a dominant run of five consecutive seasons, with top three finishes at both the conference championships and Regionals. They placed top three at nationals in four of those five years.
Um Holmes and Forsyth have produced two ANNIKA Award winners, which is annually given to the top female Division I collegiate golfer, in Alison Lee (2014) and Bronte Law (2016), as well as two PING WGCA Player of the Year honorees in Law (2016) and Lilia Vu (2018). Eleven UCLA golfers have hauled in 21 WGCA First-Team All-American Awards since Um Holmes has been on the coaching staff. No school has won more Pac-10/12 Golfer of the Year awards than UCLA since Um Holmes has been on staff, with four Bruin golfers taking home the honor five times.
An All-American Returns Home
Um Holmes announced former Bruin All-American golfer Erynne (Lee) Yoo as her assistant coach on June 26, 2023. Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-2015. As a Bruin, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
Yoo returns to Westwood after a season and a half as the assistant at Princeton University. The Tigers posted three top 3 finishes in 2022-2023 and recorded their best performance of the season at the Columbia Classic where they placed second out of 14 teams. One of Yoo's golfers, Victoria Liu, qualified for NCAA Regionals.
Welcome to the Hall!
Carrie Forysth, who completed her 24th and final season as head coach in 2022-23, was inducted into the 2023 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Class on June 8. She is the fourth member of the program to be enshrined.
During her tenure, she led the Bruins to two NCAA titles (2004 and 2011), eight top 3 NCAA finishes, three runner-up finishes and 20 NCAA Championship appearances. Her Bruins won nine NCAA Regional Championships, five Pac-12 titles, and 74 tournament victories. A two-time National Coach of the Year, Forsyth won four Regional Coach of the Year awards and six Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors. Forsyth coached two ANNIKA Award winners, two PING WGCA Players of the Year, 14 first-team All-Americans and three golfers who went on to win an LPGA Major event. Forsyth was a walk-on at UCLA and competed at the Pac-10 and NCAA Championships her freshman season before earning a scholarship by her sophomore year.
The two-day, 54-hole stroke play event features 15 teams. The Bruins will play 36 continuous holes on Monday and finish the tournament with 18 holes on Tuesday, Oct. 3. Follow the action at this GolfStat live scoring link.
UCLA Lineup: Meghan Royal, Alessia Nobilio, Caroline Canales, Kate Villegas and Zoe Antoinette Campos.
The Field: Arizona, No. 24 Arizona State, Auburn, No. 23 Duke, No. 19 Georgia, Illinois, Iowa State, Louisville, Northwestern (host), No. 2 Oregon, No. 7 USC, No. 12 Texas, UCLA, No. 21 Virginia and No. 4 Wake Forest.
Weather Report: Sunny skies, temperature highs in the mid 80s.
Par and Yardage: Par 72, 6,368 yards.
Last Time Out
A third-round surge pushed the Bruins to an eighth-place finish (-6, 858) at the Mason Rudolph Championship in Franklin, Tenn. to begin the season last week. UCLA fired a tournament-low 15-under 273 on day three which is good for the fifth lowest 18-hole score in program history and best since 2018. All five Bruins shot under par in the third round.
Sophomore Meghan Royal rose 57 total spots on the leaderboard over days two and three, firing the two lowest rounds of her career back-to-back (69-67). Royal finished the tournament t-20th (-3) for the first top 20 of her career. Royal posted a bogey-free 5-under 67 in the third round.
Nobilio matched her former career low score in round three with a 4-under 68. Campos also signed off on a bogey-free scorecard with a 4-under 68 of her own.
2022-23 In Review
UCLA's season was highlighted by six top 3 finishes, including three team victories at The Match in the Desert, The Beach Invitational and the inaugural Battle for the Bell versus crosstown rival USC. UCLA's best 54-hole score came at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic where it shot 10-under (286-283-285).
Leading the charge in 2022-23 was Campos who earned consensus first-team All-American acclaim and was named an ANNIKA Award Top 10 Finalist. Campos led UCLA with a 71.42 scoring average which ranked 20th in the NCAA and sixth all-time for a single season in school history. She won the first two events of her collegiate career in back-to-back tournaments at the Anuenue Spring Break Classic and Silverado Showdown. Campos also led UCLA with eight top 10s and finished outside the top 20 only once in 10 stroke play tournaments. She ended the season ranked as the No. 7 golfer in the nation, per Golfweek.
Joining Campos on the All-Pac-12 Team was Canales who averaged 72.9 strokes per round. The Calabasas, Calif. native also ranked second behind Campos with six top 10s and nine top 20s. She claimed the first medal of her collegiate career and shot UCLA's lowest round of the season when she tied for first at The Match in the Desert with a 7-under 65.
The Bruins earned an NCAA Regionals (San Antonio) berth for the 23rd straight season in 2022-23 before failing to make the four-team cut line to advance to the NCAA Championships. Campos finished runner-up at the event at 4-under (70-72-70) and failed to qualify for the NCAA Championships as an individual.
Campos Named to ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List
For the sixth straight year, UCLA has had a golfer named to the ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List. Zoe Antoinette Campos was the latest honoree earlier this September. Two Bruins have won the ANNIKA Award: Alison Lee (2014) and Bronte Law (2016).
Past ANNIKA Award Preseason Watch List Honorees
2022-23: Zoe Antoinette Campos
2021-22: Alessia Nobilio
2020-21: Alessia Nobilio, Emma Spitz
2019-20: Emma Spitz
2018-19: Mariel Galdiano, Patty Tavatanakit, Lilia Vu
2017-18: Patty Tavatanakit, Lilia Vu
Villegas Dominates Summer Competition
Villegas, a two-time All-Big West recipient prior to transferring from UC Riverside, won three Southern California Golf Associations (SCGA) titles in Summer 2023. Most recently, Villegas won the 27th California Women's Championship in Ojai, Calif. on Aug. 10 after sinking a birdie in the first hole of a four-way playoff to finish 4-under (65-73-71). Villegas also won the 57th California Women's Amateur Championship at La Cumbre Country Club and became the first to repeat as champion in the SCGA Match Play Women's Division on July 12.
Alongside her UC Riverside transfer counterpart Tiffany Le, the two finished runner-up in the U.S. Women's Amateur Four-Ball Championship on May 17 at The Home Course in DuPont, Wash.
Canales and the U.S Women's Amateur
The rising junior reached the Round of 32 of the 123rd U.S. Women's Amateur as the No. 5 seed at Bel-Air Country Club earlier this summer. Canales trailed two down in the Round of 64 before winning four holes on the back nine to advance.
What's New, Bru?
The new-look Bruins are composed of four transfers and one freshman for a total of five newcomers, UCLA's most since the 2019-20 season.
The transfers include Tiffany Le and Villegas from UC Riverside, Royal from Arkansas and Natalie Vo from Colorado. Jennifer Seo from Chandler, Ariz. is the singular freshman in this year's class.
A New Era
On May 25, 2023, UCLA Athletic announced Alicia Um Holmes as the next head coach of the UCLA women's golf team. Um Holmes, who spent the last 17 years as an assistant and associate head coach for the Bruins, is the fifth head coach in the program's history.
Alongside UCLA Athletic Hall of Famer Carrie Forsyth, Um Holmes helped guide the Bruins to the 2011 NCAA Championship, five NCAA Regional titles and two Pac-12 Championships. Beginning her first year as an assistant in 2006, Um Holmes and Forsyth went on a dominant run of five consecutive seasons, with top three finishes at both the conference championships and Regionals. They placed top three at nationals in four of those five years.
Um Holmes and Forsyth have produced two ANNIKA Award winners, which is annually given to the top female Division I collegiate golfer, in Alison Lee (2014) and Bronte Law (2016), as well as two PING WGCA Player of the Year honorees in Law (2016) and Lilia Vu (2018). Eleven UCLA golfers have hauled in 21 WGCA First-Team All-American Awards since Um Holmes has been on the coaching staff. No school has won more Pac-10/12 Golfer of the Year awards than UCLA since Um Holmes has been on staff, with four Bruin golfers taking home the honor five times.
An All-American Returns Home
Um Holmes announced former Bruin All-American golfer Erynne (Lee) Yoo as her assistant coach on June 26, 2023. Yoo was coached by Um Holmes and Forsyth during her collegiate playing career from 2011-2015. As a Bruin, Yoo was a three-time WGCA All-American, earning first-team recognition in 2012 and 2013, was an All-Pac-12 First Team honoree in 2013 and was both the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and NGCA Freshman of the Year in 2012.
Yoo returns to Westwood after a season and a half as the assistant at Princeton University. The Tigers posted three top 3 finishes in 2022-2023 and recorded their best performance of the season at the Columbia Classic where they placed second out of 14 teams. One of Yoo's golfers, Victoria Liu, qualified for NCAA Regionals.
Welcome to the Hall!
Carrie Forysth, who completed her 24th and final season as head coach in 2022-23, was inducted into the 2023 UCLA Athletic Hall of Fame Class on June 8. She is the fourth member of the program to be enshrined.
During her tenure, she led the Bruins to two NCAA titles (2004 and 2011), eight top 3 NCAA finishes, three runner-up finishes and 20 NCAA Championship appearances. Her Bruins won nine NCAA Regional Championships, five Pac-12 titles, and 74 tournament victories. A two-time National Coach of the Year, Forsyth won four Regional Coach of the Year awards and six Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors. Forsyth coached two ANNIKA Award winners, two PING WGCA Players of the Year, 14 first-team All-Americans and three golfers who went on to win an LPGA Major event. Forsyth was a walk-on at UCLA and competed at the Pac-10 and NCAA Championships her freshman season before earning a scholarship by her sophomore year.
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