Looking very much like the No. 1 team in the country, Stanford rolls to team title in Thunderbird Intercollegiate

 

   Only at Stanford can the No. 3 player in the Women’s World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) compete as an individual and capture the individual crown while the team still claims the team title by 35 shots.

   That’s how the No. 1 team in the Scoreboard, powered by clippd, rankings opened the spring portion of its wraparound 2025-2026 season schedule last week, the Cardinal placing four players inside the top 10 (five, counting the individual champion) on their way to their third team victory of the season in the Thunderbird Intercollegiate, hosted by one-time Pac-12 rival Arizona at Tucson Country Club.

   I’m guessing Anne Walker, the Margot and Mitch Malias director of women’s golf at Stanford, wanted to give Anna Song, a freshman from Los Angeles, Calif. some competitive reps as part of the starting lineup.

   So Andrea Revuelta, a sophomore from Spain and the aforementioned third-ranked women’s amateur player on the planet, got to free-wheel it a little while competing as an individual and she rolled to the individual crown by four shots over her Stanford teammate and fellow Spaniard Paula Martin Sampedro, a junior and No. 2 in the Women’s WAGR.

   Meanwhile, Revuleta’s teammates matched par in the opening round of a double round Feb. 9^th with a 288 over the 6,736-yard, par-72 Tucson layout and added a 5-under 283 in the afternoon before closing with a sparkling 11-under 277 in the final round Feb. 10^th for a 16-under 848 total.

   The Tucson layout was not as kind to the rest of the field as runnerup Baylor, a Big 12 power, was the next closest competitor with a 19-over 883 total. The 35-shot margin of victory tied a program record for Stanford.

   It’s no big secret that Stanford is the best team in Division I women’s golf. The victory was the Cardinal’s second straight, coming on the heels of a 19-shot win over an even tougher field to close out the fall portion of their schedule in the Nanea Invitational at the Nanea Golf Club in Kailua Kona, Hawaii in October.

   Stanford begins each season as a national championship contender, twice capturing that title in the last four years and coming up frustratingly short in a stunning loss to Northwestern in the NCAA Championship’s Final Match at the Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif. last spring.

   The regular lineup includes the No. 2 (Martin Sampedro), No. 3 (Revuelta), No. 4 (Meja Ortengren), No. 5 (Megha Ganne) and No. 18 (Kelly Xu) players in the Women’s WAGR.

   Unbeatable? They know better having fallen in the semifinals to Wake Forest in their first year in the Atlantic Coast Conference before that gut-punch of a loss to Northwestern at La Costa last spring.

   There is a standard when it comes to Stanford golf, though, and this group seems determined to live up to that standard every time the Cardinal tees it up.

   They certainly did that at Tucson.

   Revuleta opened with the best individual round of the week, a sizzling 6-under 66 and added a 3-under 69 in Monday afternoon’s second round before closing with a 70 that gave her an 11-under 205 total.

   It was Revuelta’s third career victory, joining Kathleen McCarthy, Mariah Stackhouse, Andrea Lee, Rose Zhang and Rachel Heck as Stanford players who racked up three wins before the end of their sophomore seasons.

   Martin Sampedro led the way for Stanford in the team chase, opening with a 4-under 68, matching par in Monday afternoon’s second round with a 72 and closing with a 3-under 69 to finish in second place in the individual chase at 7-under 209.

   Martin Sampedro crept within two shots of her countrywoman Revuelta at one point in the final round, but ultimately finished four shots back.

   Revuelta and Martin Sampedro were two-thirds of the Spanish team that lost out in a tiebreaker to the United States in last fall’s Women’s World Amateur Team Championship (WATC) in Singapore after finishing in a tie for first place with the United States and South Korea.

   Baylor, coming off a fourth-place finish in last month’s UCF Challenge at Eagle Creek Golf Club in Orlando, Fla., opened with a 7-over 295 and added a 2-over 290 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before matching par in the final round with a 288.

   Baylor was led by Silje Ohma, a senior from Norway who finished in a tie for fifth place in the individual standings with Stanford’s Song and Texas Tech’s Lauren Zaretsky, a senior from Canada, each landing on 3-under 213.

   Ohma added a 3-under 69 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to her opening-round 71 before closing with a 1-over 73.

   Baylor moved up a spot from No. 21 to No. 20 in the Scoreboard rankings in the aftermath of the Thunderbird Intercollegiate. The Bears earned a trip to last spring’s NCAA Championship by finishing in fifth place as a seven seed in the Norman Regional, but were unable to land a spot in the match-play bracket at La Costa.

   Host Arizona finished a shot behind its Big 12 rival Baylor with a 20-over 884 total as the Wildcats added a 4-over 292 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to their opening-round 295 before closing with a 9-over 297.

   Arizona is looking for a bounce-back season after failing to advance to the NCAA Championship at La Costa last spring as a three seed in the Lubbock Regional.

   The Wildcats dropped a spot in the Scoreboard rankings from No. 22 to No. 21 following the Thunderbird Intercollegiate.

   Texas Tech, another Big 12 representative, finished four shots behind Arizona in fourth place with a 24-over 888 total.

   Texas Tech, coming off a sixth-place finish in the Paradise Invitational at Osprey Point Golf Course in Boca Raton, Fla. to open its spring campaign, bounced back from an opening-round 301 with a 9-over 297 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a solid 2-over 290.

   Zaretsky led the way for the Red Raiders as she matched par in both ends of the opening-day double round with a pair of 72s before closing with a solid 3-under 69 to join the trio tied for fifth place at 3-under.

   Klara Hurtova, a junior from Czechia, gave Texas Tech another finisher in the top eight as she shared eighth place with Brigham Young’s Maria Jose “M.J.” Barragan, a junior from Mexico, each ending up with a 1-under 215 total.

   Hurtova, who represented Texas Tech as an individual in the Lubbock Regional last spring, opened with a solid 3-under 69 and added a 2-over 74 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before matching par in the final round with a 72.

   Texas Tech moved up three spots in the Scoreboard rankings from No. 47 to No. 44 following its fourth-place finish in the Thunderbird Intercollegiate.

   Brigham Young made it four straight Big 12 entries lined up behind Stanford as the Cougars finished two shots behind Texas Tech in fifth place in the 15-team field with a 26-over 890 total.

   BYU added a solid 1-over 289 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to its opening-round 300 before closing with a 301.

   The Cougars, coming off a fifth-place finish in their spring opener in the Collegiate Invitational at Guadalajara Country Club in Mexico, were led by Barragan, who added a sparkling 4-under 68 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to her opening round of 1-over 73 before closing with a 74.

   BYU, No. 64 in the latest Scoreboard rankings, was unable to advance to the NCAA Championship in La Costa last spring as a nine seed in the Charlottesville Regional.

   The talented Ortengren, a sophomore from Sweden, backed up Martin Sampedro for Stanford as she finished alone in fourth place with a 5-under 211 total. After shaking off the rust with an opening round of 3-over 75, Ortengren added a 3-under 69 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a sizzling 5-under 67, the best round of the day in the final round.

   Song, the Cardinal freshman, opened with a 1-over 73 and added a 1-under 71 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round before closing with a sparkling 3-under 69 to join Baylor’s Ohma and Texas Tech’s Zaretsky in the trio tied for fifth place at 3-under.

   Xu, a senior from Claremont, Calif., gave Stanford a fifth finisher in the top 10 in the individual standings as she finished alone in 10^th place with an even-par 216 total. Xu was routinely consistent, matching par in each round with three straight 72s.

   Rounding out the Stanford lineup was another senior standout, Ganne, the pride of Holmdel, N.J. and winner of last summer’s U.S. Women’s Amateur Championship at the Bandon Dunes Resort on the rugged Oregon coastline.

   Ganne added a 1-under 71 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round to her opening round of 3-over 75 before closing with a 74 to finish among the group tied for 13^th place at 4-over 220.

   Oh yeah, Ganne was a member of the U.S. team that hoisted the Espirito Santo Trophy after taking the team crown via tiebreaker in the Women’s WATC in Singapore in October.

   Strong showing by Charlotte’s Pinky Chaisilpruangruang, a sophomore from Thailand, as she finished alone in third place in the individual standings, a shot behind Stanford’s Martin Sampedro with a 6-under 210 total.

   Chaisilpruangruang represented the 49ers as an individual in the Charlottesville Regional last spring and utterly charmed everyone whose path she crossed in a run to the second round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur at Bandon Dunes in August.

   After opening with a 3-under 69 at Tucson, Chaisilpruangruang added a 71 in the afternoon of the opening-day double round and closed with a solid 70 to get it to 6-under.