Wolverines to Head to Medinah for Illini Women’s Invitational

ANN ARBOR, Mich. — The University of Michigan girls’s golf group will journey to the Windy City for the Illini Women’s Invitational, Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 6-7), on the prestigious Medinah Country Club. Featuring a robust 15-team subject, the 54-hole occasion can be performed in a 36-18 format on a par-72 course measuring 6,166 yards.

Notes

• The Illini Women’s Invitational will function 15 groups: Alabama, Auburn, Augusta, Central Florida, Charleston, Illinois, Illinois State, Indiana, LSU, Michigan, Minnesota, San Jose State, SMU, Texas Tech and Wisconsin.

• Seniors Mara Janess and Lauren Sung and freshman Vanessa Zhang lead U-M’s beginning lineup, with sophomore Mimi Guo and freshman Reese Ng rounding out the Wolverine 5. Sophomore Thomasine Bartholdson may even compete as a person.

• After opening the season as a person on the Wolverine Invitational, Janess earned a lineup spot on the Canadian Collegiate Invitational, the place she paced the Wolverines with back-to-back 71s. Her career-low 142 (-2) 36-hole complete secured a seventh-place end within the rain-shortened occasion.

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

• Starting her collegiate profession as a person on the Wolverine Invitational, Zhang made a right away affect, tying for sixteenth with rounds of 72-74-75 for a 221 complete. Earning her first begin on the Canadian Collegiate Invitational, she continued her sturdy play with a second straight top-20 end, tying for seventeenth with a 145 (+1, 73-72) tally. Through two occasions, Zhang is averaging 73.20 strokes per spherical.

• Bartholdson opened the season with a career-low 220 (78-69-73) on the Wolverine Invitational, incomes her first profession top-20 end with a tie for 14th. Her second-round 69 (-2) marked the primary sub-70 spherical of her profession. She returns to the beginning lineup this week at Medinah.

• The Wolverine Invitational supplied a preview of the U-M Golf Course, which is able to host certainly one of six NCAA regional websites in May — marking the second time in 4 years below head coach Jan Dowling. Now in her thirteenth season on the helm, Dowling has guided Michigan to eight NCAA postseason appearances, together with 4 journeys to the NCAA Finals.