Colorado State University Athletics
CSU women's golf preview: Ptarmigan
9/11/2009 12:00:00 AM | Women's Golf
Sept. 11, 2009
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Next on the Tee...
The Colorado State women’s golf team opens up a strong fall schedule when the Rams host the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic Monday and Tuesday at the Ptramigan Country Club. Sixteen Division I women’s collegiate golf teams will compete in this year’s event.
The Ptarmigan Country Club is a 6,259-yard, par-72 course. The 54-hole tournament will begin with two rounds on Monday with a shotgun start at 8:30 a.m., and the final round will take place Tuesday morning at 8:30.
Conference foes BYU, New Mexico and Wyoming, as well as in-state rivals Northern Colorado and CU make up the 16-team field.
The Rams tournament golf team lineup is Kasey Claussen, Natalie Stone, Melissa Martin, Brianna Espinoza and Emily Roering. Cecilie Krefting and Katelyn Negrelli will compete as individuals.
Rams at the Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classic...
Last season the Rams surged in the final round, jumping two spots, to finish eighth. Colorado State has captured the team title twice (2001 and 2004) in the last eight Ptarmigan Ram Fall Classics. Mayumi Motoyama was the last Rams golfer to win the tournament, doing so in 2001.
Picking up where they left off...
Colorado State women’s golf hopes to begin the 2009-10 season in strong fashion. In 2008-09, Rams Head Coach Angie Hopkins led a young squad to four top-five finishes and seven top-10 appearances, and by doing so, earned her second Mountain West Conference Coach of the Year honor. The team posted its top finish of the year with a second-place finish at the BYU Dixie Classic. Natalie Stone and Brianna Espinoza each finished in the Top 10 with career-best finishes at fourth and seventh, respectively. There are seven returners to the Rams lineup eager to show what they are capable of on the course.