Arizona Wildcats women's golf
College golf team
American college golf team
Arizona Wildcats women's golf Founded 1979 University University of Arizona Conference Big 12 Athletic director Dave Heeke Head coach Giovana Maymon (1st season)Location Tucson, Arizona Course Tucson Country Club Par: 72 Yards: 7,022 Nickname Arizona Colors Cardinal and Navy 1996 , 2000 , 2018 Susan Slaughter (1990 )Annika Sörenstam (1991 )Marisa Baena (1996 ) Jenna Daniels (2000 )2002 2018 1982 , 1983 , 1987 , 1988 , 1989 , 1990 , 1991 , 1992 , 1993 , 1995 , 1996 , 1997 , 1998 , 1999 , 2000 , 2001 , 2002 , 2003 , 2004 , 2006 , 2007 , 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2018 , 2019 , 2021 , 2023 Pac-10/12 1992, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2010, 2015Pac-10/12 Annika Sorenstam (1992)Leta Lindley (1994)Marisa Baena (1996) Jenna Daniels (1998)Lorena Ochoa (2001)
The Arizona Wildcats women's golf is considered one of the best in all of women's collegiate golf, dating back to their first season in 1979. Since they have won three national championships in 1996, 2000, and 2018. The Wildcat Women have also had four individual national champions with Susan Slaughter in (1990 ), Annika Sörenstam in (1991 ), Marisa Baena in (1996 ) and Jenna Daniels in (2000 ).
On August 4, 2023, Arizona announced it would join the Big 12 Conference along with Arizona State , Colorado , and Utah beginning in the 2024-25 academic year.[ 1]
Members of the Wildcat women's program have gone on to success on the LPGA Tour , led by 8-time LPGA Player of the Year Annika Sörenstam and 4-time LPGA Player of the Year Lorena Ochoa . Sörenstam is regarded as one of the best female golfers in history.[ 2] Before stepping away from competitive golf at the end of the 2008 season, she had won 90 international tournaments as a professional, making her the female golfer with the most wins to her name. She has won 72 official LPGA Tour tournaments including ten majors and 18 other tournaments internationally, and she tops the LPGA's career money list with earnings of over $22 million—over $2 million ahead of her nearest rival while playing 187 fewer events.[ 3] The winner of a record eight Player of the Year awards, and six Vare Trophies given to the LPGA player with the lowest seasonal scoring average, she is the only female golfer to shoot a 59 in competition. She holds various all-time scoring records including the lowest season scoring average: 68.6969 in 2004. Representing Europe in the Solheim Cup on eight occasions between 1994 and 2007, Sörenstam was the event's all-time leading points earner until her record was surpassed by England's Laura Davies during the 2011 Solheim Cup . Sörenstam also was captain of the 2017 European Solheim Cup team. In 2003, Sörenstam played in the Bank of America Colonial tournament to become the first woman to play in a PGA Tour event since 1945.
Lorena Ochoa was the top-ranked female golfer in the world for 158 consecutive and total weeks (both are LPGA Tour records), from April 23, 2007, to her retirement on May 2, 2010, at the age of 28 years old. As the first Mexican golfer of either gender to be ranked number one in the world,[ 4] she is considered the best Mexican golfer and the best Latin American female golfer of all time.[ 5] [ 6] Ochoa was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame in 2017.[ 7]
Yearly record
Source[ 8]
Season
Coach
Conference
NCAA
Pac-10/12
1981
JoAnne Lusk
4th
14th
1982
JoAnne Lusk
3rd
13th
1983
JoAnne Lusk
3rd
11th
1984
Kim Haddow
4th
1985
Kim Haddow
4th
1986
Kim Haddow
5th
1987
Kim Haddow
4st
12th
1988
Kim Haddow
5th
8th
1989
Kim Haddow
3rd
4th
1990
Kim Haddow
2nd
7th
1991
Kim Haddow
2nd
3rd
1992
Kim Haddow
1st
2nd
1993
Kim Haddow
8th
14th
1994
Kim Haddow
6th
1995
Kim Haddow/Rick LaRose
4th
12th
1996
Rick LaRose
T-3rd
1st
1997
Rick LaRose
1st
3rd
1998
Rick LaRose
1st
3rd
1999
Todd McCorkle
2nd
4th
2000
Todd McCorkle
1st
1st
2001
Greg Allen
1st
8th
2002
Greg Allen
1st
7th
2003
Greg Allen
2nd
7th
2004
Greg Allen
3rd
T-15th
2005
Greg Allen
4th
2006
Greg Allen
5th
17th
2007
Greg Allen
4th
T-14th
2008
Shelly Haywood
4th
23rd
2009
Shelly Haywood
4th
16th
2010
Shelly Haywood/Laura Ianello
1st
5th
2011
Laura Ianello
2nd
15th
2012
Laura Ianello
3rd
2013
Laura Ianello
T-4th
8th
2014
Laura Ianello
T-2nd
T-7th
2015
Laura Ianello
1st
T-5th
2016
Laura Ianello
4th
T-9th
2017
Laura Ianello
4th
2018
Laura Ianello
T-3rd
1st
2019
Laura Ianello
2nd
6th
2020
Laura Ianello
Season canceled due to theCoronavirus Pandemic
2021
Laura Ianello
4th
T-7st
2022
Laura Ianello
T-5th
2023
Laura Ianello
4th
T-9th
2024
Laura Ianello
6th
Total
Pac-10/12:8
3
Team tournament wins (84)
Source:[ 9]
1982 Lady Aztec Invitational
1983 Wildcat Invitational
1988 Washington Invitational
1988 Dick McGuire Invitational
1988 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational
1989 Wildcat Invitational
1989 Shiseido Cup International
1989 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational
1990 Border Conference Championship
1990 Oregon Invitational
1991 Stanford Invitational
1991 Wildcat Invitational
1991 UCF Rotary Classic
1991 Golfsmith Betsy Rawls Longhorn Invitational
1991 Rainbow Wahine Invitational
1991 Dick McGuire Invitational
1991 Lady Sun Devil Invitational
1991 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational
1992 Wildcat Invitational
1992 Golfsmith Betsy Rawls Classic
1992 Rainbow Wahine Invitational
1992 Pac-10 Championships (1)
1996 LSU Fairwood Invitational
1996 Rainbow Wahine Invitational
1996 Buckeye Invitational
1996 NCAA West Regional
1996 NCAA Championships (1)
1996 Dick McGuire Invitational
1996 Rolex NCAA Preview
1997 LSU Fairwood Invitational
1997 PING/ASU Invitational
1997 Pac-10 Championships (2)
1997 Rolex NCAA Preview
1998 Pac-10 Championships (3)
1998 NCAA West Regional
1998 Stanford Intercollegiate
1998 Golf World Invitational
1999 Arizona Invitational
1999 Rainbow Wahine Invitational
1999 Dick McGuire Invitational
2000 Golf World Invitational
2000 TRW Regional Challenge
2000 Wildcat Invitational
2000 Rainbow Wahine Invitational
2000 PING/ASU Invitational
2000 Pac-10 Championships (4)
2000 NCAA West Regional
2000 NCAA Championships (2)
2000 Dick McGuire Invitational
2000 Stanford Pepsi Invitational
2001 TRW Regional Challenge
2001 Wildcat Invitational
2001 Pac-10 Championships (5)
2001 NCAA West Regional
2002 Pac-10 Championships (6)
2003 Edean Ihlanfeldt Invitational
2010 Las Vegas Collegiate Showdown
2010 Pac-10 Championships (7)
2010 NCAA West Regional
2010 Topy Cup
2011 Wildcat Invitational
2012 Wildcat Invitational
2012 UNLV Invitational
2012 Mason Rudolph Championship
2012 Windy City Collegiate Classic
2013 Dr. Donnis Thompson Invitational
2014 SunTrust Gator Invitational
2015 SunTrust Gator Invitational
2015 PING/ASU Invitational
2015 Pac-12 Championships (8)
2016 Wildcat Invitational
2017 Mountain View Collegiate
2018 Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational
2018 PING/ASU Invitational
2018 NCAA Championships (3)
2019 Pac-12 Preview
2019 UNLV Rebel Beach Invitational
2019 Hawkeye El Tigre Invitational
2020 Pac-12 Preview
2020 Wildcat Invitational
2022 NCAA Raleigh Regional
2023 Gators Invitational
Individual champions
Source:[ 10]
NCAA
Arizona has had four individuals claim the NCAA Individual Championship on four occasions.
Regional
Conference
Arizona has had five separate golfers win a conference title on five separate occasions.
National honors
Source[ 11]
Individual scoring record
Source:[ 12]
Low 18-hole total in relation to par
Player
Date
Score
Haley Moore
Oct 26, 2017
64 (−8)
Therese Warner
Mar 8, 2021
65 (−7)
Gigi Stoll
65 (−7)
Wanasa Zhou
Mar 11, 2017
65 (−7)
Haley Moore
Sep 13, 2016
65 (−7)
Low 18-hole aggregate total
Player
Date
Score
Haley Moore
Oct 26, 2017
64 (−8)
Therese Warner
Mar 8, 2021
65 (−7)
Gigi Stoll
65 (−7)
Wanasa Zhou
Mar 11, 2017
65 (−7)
Haley Moore
Sep 13, 2016
65 (−7)
Low 54-hole total in relation to par
Player
Season
Score
Wanasa Zhou
2016–17
203 (−13)
Manon Gidali
2011–12
204 (−12)
Haley Moore
2016–17
206 (−10)
Lorena Ochoa
2001–02
206 (−10)
Krystal Quihuis
2016–17
206 (−10)
Low 54-hole aggregate total
Player
Season
Score
Wanasa Zhou
2016–17
203 (−13)
Manon Gidali
2011–12
204 (−12)
Haley Moore
2016–17
206 (−10)
Lorena Ochoa
2001–02
206 (−10)
Krystal Quihuis
2016–17
206 (−10)
Career scoring average (min. 2 seasons played)
Player
Average
Years
Rounds
Lorena Ochoa
70.85
2000–02
60
Vivian Hou
71.95
2019–21
41
Erica Blasberg
72.32
2002–04
61
Haley Moore
72.45
2015–19
118
Yu-Sang Hou
72.48
2017–21
96
Single-season scoring average (Min. 18 rounds played)
Player
Years
Rounds
Lorena Ochoa
70.13
2001–02
30
Vivian Hou
70.68
2019–20
19
Vivian Hou
71.40
2016–17
30
Lorena Ochoa
71.56
2000–01
30
Jenna Daniels
71.70
1999–00
34
References
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^ "Official Career Wins" (PDF) . LPGA. Archived from the original (PDF) on January 25, 2007. Retrieved March 7, 2007 .
^ "LPGA Tour Career Money List" . LPGA Tour. Retrieved June 4, 2022 .
^ Shapiro, Leonard (April 27, 2007). "Say Hello to the Ochoa Era" . The Washington Post . Retrieved April 27, 2007 .
^ Lane, Harper (September 15, 2010). "5 Great Hispanic Golfers" . Man Made. Archived from the original on February 24, 2015. Retrieved December 23, 2015 .
^ Ceballos, Juan Ignacio (June 16, 2011). "La familia Ochoa, del golf al tenis" . ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). Retrieved December 23, 2015 .
^ "Love III gets Hall of Fame call: Woosnam, Mallon, Ochoa, Longhurst also included in Class of 2017" . PGA Tour. October 18, 2016.
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^ "Arizona Women's Golf Media Guide" (PDF) . p. 7.
^ "Arizona Women's Golf Media Guide - Page 8" (PDF) .
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^ "2021–22 Arizona Women's Golf Media Guide" (PDF) . Arizona Wildcats. p. 12.