It’s must boring to be this good. The University of Arizona Wildcat Women’s golf team won the Wildcat Invitational by 22 shots. And to drive home the point about how much better the Lady Cats were than their opponents…the player who won the individual title, Kailie Vongsaga -9, did not even qualify as a scorer in the team event…playing as an individual. The fact that Arizona hosted the event, made it easier for the team to allow all of its 8 team members to participate.
Coach Laura Ianello attributes the great team play to the stiff competition each girl faces each week just to make the starting lineup, “The lineup is continuing to rotate. We’re trying to figure out who the best five is.”
Vongsaga beat Cat teammate Vivian Hou by a single shot. Hou gave away two shots in the last two holes that cost her the low medalist trophy. Hou will travel to Augusta in April to play in the Augusta National Womens Amateur.
Only the top 50 ranked amateur players in the world qualify. Hou, a freshman, has finished in the top two, three times this year, her first with the Cats. Her sister, Yu-Sang, who plays on the Cats as well, will also be playing in the Augusta tournament, both for the second year in a row.
The Cats, ranked #11 in the country, have a few weeks off, until they go up to Phoenix to play in the ASU Invitational at the newly renovated Papago Golf Course.
Former Salpointe star Alexandra Quihuis turned in three solid rounds as well, finishing in 6th place at -2 participating for New Mexico State. Head Coach Danny Bowen told me that Quihuis, has moved into the number one position on the team…saying the freshman has worked hard and has improved her game every week.
