Women's Golf Travels to Terrapin Invitational This WeekWomen's Golf Travels to Terrapin Invitational This Week

Women's Golf Travels to Terrapin Invitational This Week

Penn State makes the short trip to College Park for its final tune-up ahead of the B1G Championships later this month

COLLEGE PARK, Md.  – The Penn State women's golf team is challenging itself at a new tournament for the second-straight week with a trip to Big Ten foe Maryland and the Terrapin Invitational held at the University of Maryland Golf Course on Sunday and Monday

The tournament will feature a pair of 8:30 a.m. shotgun starts with 36 holes of continuous play scheduled for Sunday before a single 18-hole day for Monday’s final round.

Live scoring for the tournament is available HERE.

The par-72, 6,244-yard, George W. Cobb designed course was built in 1958 and renovated in 2008 by Bill Love.

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THE FIELD

  • Three additional Big Ten schools join the Nittany Lions as the host Terrapins along with Nebraska and Michigan are set to tee it up this week while Delaware, Georgetown, Harvard, High Point, Howard, JMU, Navy, Notre Dame, Richmond and Southern Illinois round out the 14-team field.

THE TEAM

  • Penn State’s lineup features minor tweaks from last week as the top three of senior classmates Drew Nienhaus (St. Louis, Mo.) and Michelle Cox (Allentown, Pa.) along with freshman Jiratchaya Jiratthitinun (Bangkok, Thailand) remain consistent while fellow first-year Gwendolynn Powell (Madison Township, Pa.) slots back into the lineup with senior Jami Morris (Chagrin Falls, Ohio) rounds out the starting five. Freshman Lauren Thompstone (Paris, France) will compete as an individual.
  • Following a career-best 7-under, 209, finish at the Clemson Invitational last weekend, Jiratthitinun assumes the best scoring average on the team at 72.96 and has a pair of top-10 finishes along with Nienhaus who is second on the team with a 73.08 stroke average. Nienhaus recorded the first Ace of her career in tournament play during the final round of the Clemson Invitational last weekend and it marked the first hole-in-one for the Nittany Lions in tournament play in over five years dating back to Mathilde Delavallade ’24 who secured a hole-in-one during the Gator Invitational in 2020.
  • Cox ranks third on the team with a 73.73 stroke average and finished the Clemson Invitational with back-to-back even par rounds as Penn State as a team finished even through the final 36 holes bouncing back from a 15-over opening round.

The Nittany Lions will be paired with Maryland and Michigan and begin on holes one through three on Sunday morning.

NEXT UP
Penn State will return to Maryland for the B1G Championships on April 18-20 at Bulle Rock Golf Course in Havre de Grace.