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The Bruins' lineup for Pac-12s: Erin Choi, Lilia Vu, Bethany Wu, Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi.
Bruins in Tucson for Pac-12 Championships
April 23, 2017 | Women's Golf
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TUCSON, Ariz. - The Bruins, third in the latest Golfstat rankings, head to the Sewailo Golf Club for the 2017 Pac-12 Conference Championships. The three-day, 54-hole tournament runs from Monday through Wednesday on the par-72, 6,583-yard layout.
The scoring fivesome for UCLA will feature junior Erin Choi, sophomores Lilia Vu and Bethany Wu and freshmen Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi. The Bruins will begin the tournament at 8 a.m. on the first tee in the order of Legaspi, Choi, Wu, Galdiano and Vu. Live scoring will be available here.
Stanford is ranked just ahead of the Bruins at second in the April 18 Golfstat ranking, followed by #5 Arizona State, #7 USC, #14 Arizona, #21 Colorado, #26 California, #42 Washington, #46 Oregon, #55 Oregon State and #58 Washington State.
The Bruins have finished first or second in each of their last four tournaments, winning the Gifford Great 8 Collegiate Match Play (March 13-14) and the Anuenue Spring Break Classic (March 27-29), while placing second to the Cardinal at both the Bruin Wave Invitational (Feb. 27-28) and the Silverado Showdown (April 9-11). UCLA has three victories on the season, winning the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 14-15).
Vu, ranked seventh in the Golfstat Cup with a scoring average of 71.6, is the hottest golfer in the collegiate game right now, having won each of her last three tournaments. She outright won both the Bruin Wave (E, 219) and the Anuenue Classic (-12, 204) and tied for first at Silverado (-8, 208), while also going 3-0 in match play at the Gifford Great 8. Vu, a combined 20-under in her last nine rounds, is just the second Bruin to win three consecutive events (Charlotte Mayorkas, 2004). On the season, she has five Top 10s, including a second at the season-opening ANNIKA Intercollegiate (-10, 206) and a T-5 at the Stanford Intercollegiate (+1, 143). Ten of Vu's 21 rounds have seen her in red figures, along with seven of them in the 60s.
Galdiano is second on the team in scoring average at 72.4 and has placed in the Top 11 in five of her last six events. She was second at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview (Oct. 24-25, -4, 215), tied for third at the Bruin Wave (+4, 223), solo fourth at the Anuenue (-3, 213), tied for fifth in the single round of stroke play at the East Lake Cup (Oct. 31, -1, 71) and tied for 11th at Silverado (-2, 214). Her four Top 20s are second on the team. Galdiano, who is 5-under on the season in her opening rounds and 4-under in her final rounds, has nine rounds under par, including four in the 60s.
Wu is third on the team in scoring average at 73.5, recording a T-12 at the Anuenue (+3, 219) and a T-13 at Silverado (E, 216) over her last two events. Her best finish of the season came at Stanford, tying for eighth (+2, 144), while she has five other Top 20 showings. Of Wu's 21 rounds, six have been under par, including three in the 60s. The sophomore got off to a great start at Silverado thanks to a 4-under 68.
Choi, in just three stroke-play tournaments, holds a scoring average of 73.6. She tied for sixth at the Anuenue Classic (E, 216), breaking par in her last two rounds with a 1-under 71 and a 2-under 70. Choi also finished 13th at the Bruin Wave thanks to a closing 1-under 72 and tied for 26th at Silverado, posting a 1-under 71 in her second round.
Legaspi holds a scoring average of 76.4. Playing as an individual at the Bruin Wave, she finished sixth (+5, 224) for her best finish of her maiden season. She also had a Top 10 at the East Lake Cup thanks to an even-par 72 (8th). Legaspi has a pair of under-par rounds on the season, shooting a 2-under 70 in her middle round of the ANNIKA and a 1-under 70 in her first round at the Northrop Grumman Regional Challenge (Feb. 12-14).
UCLA finished second at last year's Pac-12 Championships in Pleasanton, Calif., posting a 15-under score, three shots back of USC. Two Bruins were in the Top Three, as Bronte Law placed second (-10, 206), while Vu tied for third (-8, 208) in her first conference tournament. Wu tied for 12th (-1, 215) last year, while Choi will be making her second appearance at Pac-12s after tying for 41st as a freshman in 2015.
The Bruins have won five conference championships in 1990, 1991, 2004, 2005 and 2006. Four UCLA golfers have taken home medalist honors (Lisa Kiggens, 1991; Mayorkas, 2004; Tiffany Joh, 2007; Alison Lee, 2014).
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