Colorado State University Athletics
CSU women's golf preview: Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown
10/24/2008 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Oct. 24, 2008
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Next on the tee...
The Colorado State women’s golf team closes its fall schedule Monday-Wednesday at the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown hosted by conference foe UNLV. The 54-hole tournament will be played over three days. Monday and Tuesday’s rounds begin with tee times starting at 7:30 a.m. Wednesday’s final round is an 8 a.m. shotgun start.
The Course...
The tournament will be played at the Boulder Creek Golf Club in Boulder City, Nev. The par-72 course spans 6,265 yards.
The Field...
The tournament field consists of 18 teams, including three Mountain West Conference opponents - BYU, TCU and host UNLV. Seven teams - Oklahoma State (5), Louisville (16), Pepperdine (18), TCU (37), Washington (38), Texas (43) and UNLV (48) - are ranked in the Top 50 of the Golfweek/Sagarin performance index. Colorado State is ranked 54th in the latest rankings released Wednesday. The other teams participating are Eastern Washington, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa State, Long Beach State, Minnesota, Missouri, Texas Tech and UC Davis.
Rams’ lineup...
The Rams golfers set to compete in the tournament are junior Kasey Claussen, freshman Melissa Martin, junior Natalie Stone, senior Stefanie Ferguson, and freshman Brianna Espinoza.
Live scoring ...
Live scoring of each round of the Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown will be available at GolfStat.com.
Forming a habit...
Dating back to the final two tournaments of 2007-08, the Colorado State women’s golf team has captured six consecutive top-10 finishes.
Top of the Mountain West...
Colorado State junior Kasey Claussen and freshman Melissa Martin rank first and second, respectively, in the Mountain West Conference in terms of stroke average among golfers who have played at least 10 rounds this season.
Last time out...
Fresh off of a record-setting team score at the Heather Farr/CU Memorial, junior Kasey Claussen etched her own name in the CSU record books at the Price’s “Give ‘Em Five” Invitational in Las Cruces, N.M. Claussen, a Fort Collins product, shot a school-record tying 67 in the final round of action. Claussen’s 67 tied the record set by former Ram Chelsea Benton at the 2005 Las Vegas Founders Collegiate. Claussen’s peformance helped the Rams secure a seventh-place finish in the tournament. She also posted a career-best finish of second place.