Wolverines to Head North for Inaugural Canadian Collegiate Invitational

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Coming off a top-three end on the Wolverine Invitational, the University of Michigan ladies’s golf staff heads north to Aurora, Ontario, for the inaugural Canadian Collegiate Invitational, Monday and Tuesday (Sept. 22–23) at Beacon Hall Golf Club. The 12-team discipline will compete in a 54-hole format (36-18), with the course arrange as a par-72 measuring 6,306 yards.

Notes

• There will probably be 12 groups within the first Canadian Collegiate Invitational discipline, together with Auburn, British Columbia, Central Michigan, Kent State, Michigan, Michigan State, Ole Miss, Purdue, Rutgers, Tennessee, South Florida and Virginia.

• Michigan’s beginning 5 contains seniors Lauren Sung, Sydney Sung, Mara Janess and freshmen Vanessa Zhang and Reese Ng. Sophomore Mimi Guo will play as a person.

• The medalist earns an exemption into the 2026 CPKC Women’s Open at Royal Mayfair Golf Club in Edmonton, Alberta, whereas the top-five finishers safe spots within the 2026 Canadian Women’s Amateur Championship at The Toronto Golf Club in Mississauga, Ontario.

• Powered by a third-round greatest 287 — six photographs higher than another staff — Michigan rallied to put up an 878 complete and tie for third on the Wolverine Invitational on the U-M Golf Course. The Wolverines closed with three gamers inside the highest 25, highlighted by Lauren Sung’s runner-up end.

• With back-to-back 68s (-3), Lauren Sung posted a career-low 209 (-4) on the Wolverine Invitational to complete runner-up within the 81-player discipline to mark the primary top-five end of her profession. The consecutive 68s additionally gave her the twelfth and thirteenth sub-par rounds of her profession, together with her fifth and sixth rounds within the 60s.

• In addition to Sung’s runner-up end at U-M’s dwelling occasion, Thomasine Bartholdson carded a career-low 220 (78-69-73) to safe her first profession top-20 end, tying for 14th. Making her collegiate debut, Ng tied for twenty first with a 222 (72-76-74), giving Michigan three gamers inside the highest 25.

• In her collegiate debut on the Wolverine Invitational, Zhang competed as a person and rapidly made her mark, posting a 221 (72-74-75) to tie for sixteenth. Her robust exhibiting earned her a spot in U-M’s beginning lineup for the Canadian Collegiate, setting the stage for an thrilling freshman marketing campaign.

• After the Canadian Collegiate, U-M continues its fall slate on the Illini Women’s Invitational at Medinah (Oct. 6–7) earlier than closing with a fifth straight look at North Carolina’s Ruth’s Chris Tar Heel Invitational (Oct. 17–19).

• The Wolverine Invitational additionally provided a preview of the U-M Golf Course, which can host one among six NCAA regional websites in May, marking the second time in 4 years beneath head coach Jan Dowling. In her 13 seasons on the helm, Dowling has guided Michigan to eight NCAA postseason appearances, together with 4 journeys to the NCAA Finals.