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Alyaa Abdulghany led USC in its 2018 win at Stanford lat year with a fourth-place finish.
No. 3 USC Looks To Defend Title At Stanford Intercollegiate
October 10, 2019 | Women's Golf, Features
Trojans seeking first win of year.
The No. 3 USC women's golf team, a seven-time winner last season with eight golfers back who have started -- including five All-Americans – will look to defend last year's title at the 2019 Stanford Intercollegiate, Friday through Sunday (Oct. 11-13), at the Stanford (Calif.) G.C.
In addition to the Cardinal and Trojans, the field includes Arizona, Arizona State, California, Florida, Georgia, Iowa State, Northwestern, Oregon State, Oregon, Pepperdine, San Diego State, San Jose State, UC Davis, UCLA and Washington State.
Teams will tee off in two waves at 7:30 a.m. and 11:10 a.m. on Friday and Saturday and in a shotgun start Sunday at 8:30 a.m. Results will be at Golfstat.com.
USC won the tournament last year at even 15-under 837 (272-286-279) with a wire-to-wire victory, winning by 15 strokes. Junior Alyaa Abdulghany led the Trojans with a fourth at 5-under 208. USC posted a three-year win streak at the event between 2012-2014, the final year sharing first with the host Cardinal. Kyung Kim (2013), Jennifer Song (2009) and Lizette Salas (2008) have posted individual wins there for the Trojans.
Abdulghany will be joined in the starting lineup this week by fellow juniors Gabriela Ruffels and Amelia Garvey as well as senior Allisen Corpuz and sophomore Malia Nam. Ruffels returns to the lineup after playing in the Japan Women's Open last week.
The Trojans, under the guidance of second-year head coach Justin Silverstein and first-year assistant coach Katie Mitchell, are without Jennifer Chang this week as the junior prepares to play in the second stage of the LPGA's Q School that begins Saturday.
Chang leads USC's returning All-American contingent as USC's lone first-teamer while Ruffels and Nam are second teamers and Abdulghany and Garvey were honorable mention picks.
FALL RECAP
* Senior Leong led USC in its season opener at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate, posting a career-best tie for sixth at 3-under 213 (74-66-73) with a career-best 66 in the second round. The Trojans finished fifth.
* The Trojans then finished second at the Windy City Collegiate at 11-under 853 (286-282-285), three back of first. Corpuz (70-70-70) and Chang (70-71-69) tied for third at 6-under 210.
* For Corpuz, her performance was a career-best under par over 54 holes.
* Chang, following a tie for eighth in USC's season opener, now has six top 8 finishes in her last seven starts dating back to last season.
* Chang's final round gives her 12 career rounds in the 60s, tied for eighth on USC's career chart.
2018-2019 HIGHLIGHTS
* USC advanced to the 2019 NCAA Championships match play last season, extending its national-best streak of top 5 finishes to 14 straight. USC advanced to the NCAA Championships match play bracket for the fifth year in a row since it was instituted, one of just two teams to do so (Stanford is the other).
* USC's wins at the Windy City, Stanford Intercollegiate, East Lake Cup, Clover Cup, PING/ASU, Pac-12 Championships and NCAA Cle Elum Regional were the first seven for then-new head coach Justin Silverstein.
* Troy's seven wins matches its total in 2013 for the second most in program history behind only its record nine wins in 2014. USC has now won at least four tournaments in six of the past seven season.
* Chang, Ruffels, Nam and Garvey all earned 2019 All-Pac-12 first team honors, the second career honor for Chang. Abdulghany and Corpuz claimed honorable mention notice, the second in a row for both.
2019 SUMMER SUCCESS
The USC women's golf team, No. 1 for much of the 2018-19 season, had a huge off-season led by junior Gabriela Ruffels winning the 2019 U.S. Amateur and the 2019 North & South Amateur.
Ruffels, on a hot streak unmatched in amateur golf this year, used three birdies over the final four holes to defeat Stanford's Albane Valenzuela, 1up, to win the 119th U.S. Women's Amateur on Aug. 11 at Old Waverly G.C. in West Point, Miss.
Ruffels won the North & South Amateur Championship in July with five straight match play wins and then made it an amazing 11 match play victories in a row, defeating six top fellow amateurs to become USC's fourth U.S. Amateur winner. She joined USC's previous title holders in Jennifer Song (2009), Becky Lucidi (2002) and Jill McGill (1993).
Ruffels won the North & South with a 1up semifinal win and a 2up win over fell Aussie Doey Choi in the final.
She joined Jennifer Chang and Malia Nam in the Arnold Palmer Cup. Ruffels, finishing 2-1-1 during the event, helped the International side defeat the U.S. Overall, USC's trio finished 6-3-3 in their combined action.
USC came close to holding both the U.S. and Ladies British Am trophies as junior Amelia Garvey was a finalist in the latter in June, falling in the final on the 18th hole, 1 down. Garvey was among the top 3 in stroke play and won five matches to reach the final.
Garvey joined Ruffels and teammates Allisen Corpuz, Malia Nam and Jennifer Chang in the match play of the North & South. Corpuz was medalist in the event at 3-under 139 and reached the quarterfinals, as did Chang. In the U.S. Am, Ruffels was joined by Corpuz and Nam again, Corpuz reaching the round of 16.
Junior Alyaa Abdulghany was the the low amateur at the Women's California State Open, taking second overall, and followed it with the title at the SCGA Women's Amateur while sophomore Katherine Muzi posted a top 5 finish.
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