Women's Golf Set for Bettie Lou Evans Invitational This WeekWomen's Golf Set for Bettie Lou Evans Invitational This Week
Mark Selders

Women's Golf Set for Bettie Lou Evans Invitational This Week

LEXINGTON, Ky. – Coming off a strong third-place finish at the Nittany Lion Invitational two weeks ago, the Penn State women’s golf team travels southwest for the 32nd Bettie Lou Evans Invitational hosted by the University of Kentucky at the Big Blue Golf Course.

This marks the first trip for the Nittany Lions to this event since finishing runner-up at the 2019 Bettie Lou Evans Invitational.

The Invitational will feature 36 holes of continuous play on Monday followed by the final round on Tuesday with shotgun starts slated for 8:30 a.m. each morning.

Live scoring for the event can be found HERE.

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ABOUT THE BETTIE LOU EVANS INVITATIONAL

  • The tournament, formerly known as the Wildcat Fall Invitational, began in 1979 and this season marks the 32nd event as it returns to the University Club of Kentucky's Big Blue Course which began hosting the event in 2002. The tournament was previously held at Spring Valley Country Club. Big Blue has been stretched to 6,242 yards for this year’s tournament and remains a par-72.
  • Kentucky has won the tournament 13 times, including holding off the Nittany Lions in back-to-back years in 2018 and 2019.
  • The event then took a four-year hiatus before returning in 2024 at Champion Trace at Keene Trace Golf Club in Nicholasville, Kentucky, and again went unplayed last season before making its Big Blue return this fall.
  • The 2026 field consists of 13 additional teams to go along with the host Wildcats and the Nittany Lions as Indiana, South Alabama, Cincinnati, Akron, Lipscomb, East Carolina, Belmont, Richmond, Tennessee, Eastern Kentucky, Auburn, Jacksonville State and Cal round out the field.

LAST TIME OUT

  • Freshman, and State College local, Madison Koshko secured individual medalist honors in her collegiate debut at the first-ever Happy Valley Individual contested on the Penn State White Course this week following a pair of 68s.
  • Koshko paced the field of 43 individuals who competed in a separate tournament as part of the 50th Nittany Lion Invitational on Monday and Tuesday. Koshko fired back-to-back rounds of 4-under, 68, in the 36-hole event including a bogey-free opening round. The rookie made just one bogey throughout her two rounds finishing the week with nine birdies for her 8-under, 136, securing the title by four strokes over Maryland’s Noa Terroba Toro.
  • As a team in the Nittany Lion Invitational, Penn State used back-to-back rounds in red figures, including the low-round of the day on Tuesday, 8-under, 280, to race up the leaderboard into a tie for third with Harvard at 11-under, 853. The score, which was 25 strokes better than its score to win the event last season, would have been good to take the crown any other year if it wasn’t for record-setting scoring from Virginia Tech and Maryland.
  • The Nittany Lions were paced by junior Jiratchaya Jiratthitinun who carded three rounds in the red as she sandwiched a bogey-free, 4-under, 68, between a pair of 71s to finish the week 6-under, 210, and in a tie for fifth.
  • Sophomore Mara King had one of the best weeks of her Nittany Lion career finishing tied for seventh in the 90-player field after moving up 14 spots, marking her second career top-10 with a collegiate low 5-under, 211.

THE TEAM

Jiratthitinun, King and Koshko are joined in the lineup this week by sophomore Audrey lam and Junior Hannah Rabb while sophomore Lillian Guleserian will tee it up as an individual.

NEXT UP

Penn State will take another week off after returning from the Blue Grass State before competing in the Evie Odom Invitational in Virginia Beach on October 9-11.