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Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Riley claims individual crown, leads Northwestern to team title in Silverado Showdown


   You could spend a lot of time talking about the people who didn’t tee it up in the Silverado Showdown, which wrapped up Tuesday at the Silverado Resort & Spa in Napa, Calif.
   But let’s give credit where credit is due. The three top finishers in the team standings in the Silverado Showdown were all among the eight teams still standing when match play commenced in last spring’s NCAA Championship at Karsten Creek Golf Club in Stillwater, Okla.
   And the one of those three that came out on top in Wine Country was Northwestern, ranked No. 16 in the latest Golfstat rankings, behind individual champion Brooke Riley, a junior from Manteca, Calif. The team rankings have changed since the Silverado Showdown was completed and I’ll try to indicate any movements that occurred, but in the case of Northwestern, runnerup Southern California and third-place finisher Stanford, the rankings were unchanged.
   It looks like the 6,120-yard, par-72 Silverado layout was playing tough, which is just as well with conference championships looming. The Wildcats carded a 3-over 291 in Sunday’s opening round and added a 3-under 285 in Monday’s second round before closing with a 6-over 294 Tuesday for a 6-over 870 total.
   No. 1 Southern Cal fell 12 shots behind Northwestern with a 9-over 297 in the second round before the Trojans closed with a 2-under 286. But they fell four shots short of Northwestern and settled for second with a 10-over 874.
   No. 4 Stanford was typically consistent, sandwiching a 5-over 293 in Monday’s second round with a pair of 6-over 294s as the Cardinal finished third at 17-over 881, seven shots behind their Pac-12 rival Southern Cal and 11 shots behind perennial Big Ten power Northwestern.
   The scary thing, of course, is that Southern Cal was the runnerup despite missing three members of its starting lineup who were playing in the inaugural Augusta National Women’s Amateur Championship – Allisen Corpuz, a junior from Honolulu, Hawaii and No. 41 in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR), Alyaa Abdulghany, a sophomore from Newport Beach, Calif., and Jennifer Chang, a sophomore from Cary, N.C. and No. 26 in the Women’s WAGR.
   And Stanford was missing two of its stalwarts, juniors Andrea Lee of Hermosa Beach, Calif. and No. 3 in the Women’s WAGR, who was also in Georgia for the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, and Albane Valenzuela of Switzerland and No. 5 in the Women’s WAGR, who made the cut and played the weekend in the ANA Inspiration, the first LPGA major championship of the season on the Dinah Shore Tournament Course at Mission Hills Country Club in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
   More on them later. Oregon closed with a 3-over 291 to finish three shots behind Stanford at 20-over 884, an effort that improved the Ducks’ ranking from No. 24 to No. 21. Washington, like Southern Cal, like Stanford and like Oregon, a Pac-12 entry, was two shots behind the Ducks in fifth place at 22-over 886 after a final round of 4-over 292. The Huskies, the 2015-’16 national champions, moved up from No. 25 to No. 23 after the Silverado Showdown.
   San Jose State was another two shots behind Washington in sixth place, closing with a 299 for a 24-over 888 total. The Spartans jumped from No. 32 to No. 27 in the rankings in the aftermath of the Silverado Showdown.
   California made it five Pac-12 teams in the top seven as the Bears put together the best team round of the tournament, a sparkling 6-under 282, in the final round to finish seventh in the 18-team field at 27-over 891, three shots behind San Jose State. Cal moved up one spot from No. 45 to No. 44 following its strong showing in Wine Country.
   OK, so a lot of good players weren’t there, but only one of the players that did show up broke par for 54 holes and that was Riley, who fired back-to-back 2-under 70s Sunday and Monday and finished up with a 3-over 75 for a 1-under 215 total.
   Backing up Riley for the Wildcats were one of their senior stalwarts, Stephanie Lau of Fullerton, Calif. and No. 37 in the Women’s WAGR, and Kelly Sim, a freshman from Edgewater, N.J., both of whom were part of a trio of players that finished tied for fourth at 1-over 217, two shots behind Riley.
   Lau is among the more underrated players in America. She took a trip across the pond last summer and reached the final of the Ladies’ British Open Amateur Championship at Hillside Golf Club in Southport, England before falling to Leonie Harm, a senior at Houston who became the first German to win the event.
   Lau was right in the middle of Northwestern’s gutty run to the NCAA Championship’s Final Match two years ago at Rich Harvest Farms, the Wildcats falling to Arizona State. She helped the Wildcats reach match play last spring at Karsten Creek, Northwestern falling, 3-2, to Stanford in the quarterfinals.
   Players like Lau might be drawn to Northwestern by the academics, but don’t sell them short on the golf course. They always compete. Lau bettered par in the opening round at the Silverado Showdown with a 2-under 70 and matched par in the second round with a 72 before closing with a 3-over 75.
   After opening with a 75, Sim carded one of the few sub-70 rounds of the tournament, a 4-under 68, in the second round before closing with a 2-over 74.
   Much like Lau, Janet Mao, a senior from Johns Creek, Ga., has been there for Northwestern’s last two deep postseason runs. Mao struggled with a 79 in the opening round and a 3-over 75 in Monday’s second round. But she was Northwestern’s medalist in the final round with the title on the line, carding a 1-under 71 that left her in the group tied for 29th at 9-over 225.
   Lau and Mao both qualified for match play in last summer’s U.S. Women’s Amateur at The Golf Club of Tennessee.
   Rounding out the Northwestern lineup was Kelly Su, a freshman from Scottsdale, Ariz. who closed with a counting 2-over 74 to finish among the group tied for 53rd at 230.
   Southern Cal’s Malia Nam, a freshman from Kailua, Hawaii, and San Jose State’s Natasha Andrea Oon, a freshman from Malaysia, shared second place in the individual chase, each finishing up a shot behind Riley at even-par 216.
   Nam closed with a 2-under 70 to get her share of second while Oon got into contention with a 3-under 69 in the second round before closing with a 1-over 73.
   Joining Northwestern’s Lau and Sim in the trio tied for fourth at 1-over 217 was Oregon’s Kathleen Scavo, a senior from Benicia, Calif. who bounced back from an opening-round 75 with a 2-under 70 in Monday’s second round before matching par with a 72 in the final round.
   Stanford’s Ziyi Wang, a junior from China, and Southern Cal’s Gabriela Ruffels, a sophomore from Australia, finished in a tie for seventh place at 3-over 219. After opening with a 75, Wang posted a 2-under 70 in Monday’s second round before finishing up with a 2-over 74. Ruffels matched par with 72s in the first two rounds before closing with a 3-over 75.
   California’s Katherine Zhu, a freshman from San Jose, Calif., and Washington’s Rino Sasaki, a sophomore from Japan, rounded out the top 10 in the individual standings as they finished tied for ninth at 4-over 220. Zhu closed with a 2-under 70 after posting a pair of 3-over 75s in the first two rounds. Sasaki bounced back from an opening-round 77 with a 2-under 70 in Monday’s second round before finishing up with a 1-over 73.
   Corpuz was the only one of the three Southern Cal entries to make the cut and get in a competitive round at Augusta National, the Alister Mackenzie and Bobby Jones collaboration that has stood the test of time. Corpuz matched par in the Saturday’s final round to finish among the group tied for 17th at 3-over 219.
   Abdulghany had a pair of 3-over 75s at Champions Retreat Golf Club for a 150 total that her tied for 40th and Chang, the runnerup in the 2017 U.S. Girls’ Junior Championship at Boone Valley Golf Club in Augusta, Mo., had rounds of 78 and 76 for a 154 total that left her in the group tied for 57th.
   Stanford’s Lee made it to Saturday at Augusta National and carded a 4-over 76 to finish among the group tied for 26th a 7-over 223. Her teammate Valenzuela closed with a 1-over 73 in the final round of the ANA Inspiration Sunday and finished among the group tied for 66th at 6-over 294.
   UCLA, the two-time defending Pac-12 champion, finished 11th at the Silverado Showdown with a 44-over 908 total and saw its ranking drop from No. 9 to No. 13.
   The Bruins were without the services of Patty Tavatanakit, a sophomore from Thailand and No. 2 in the Women’s WAGR. Tavatanakit, the reigning Pac-12 individual champion, was at the ANA along with Stanford’s Valenzuela.
   All she did was close with a 4-under 68 to finish among the group tied for 26th at even-par 288 and claim low-amateur honors. Tavatanakit also was the low amateur in last spring’s U.S. Women’s Open at Shoal Creek, finishing in a tie for fifth at 2-under 286.
   It’s getting to the point at which the talented Tavatanakit is leaving too much money on the table to not turn pro. But she should be there to defend her individual title and help UCLA defend its conference championship when the Pac-12 Championship tees off Monday at Palos Verdes Golf Club in Palos Verdes Estates, Calif.
   The last four national champions have come out of this championship, so don’t be shocked if it happens again this spring. It will be, as it always is, a heck of a shootout in its own right.
   Northwestern, meanwhile, will be headed for the Big Ten Championship, which tees off April 19 at TPC River’s Bend in Maineville, Ohio. The Wildcats will be trying to wrest the conference championship away from Michigan State, which has captured the title each of the last two springs.
   No matter what happens at TPC River’s Bend, though, you can count on Northwestern being in the hunt for a match-play berth when the NCAA Championship comes to The Blessings Golf Club in Fayetteville, Ark. next month.

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