Among the many 19 amateurs teeing it up at LPGA Qualifying, previously often known as second stage of LPGA Q-Faculty, are seven present school gamers, together with the reigning NCAA particular person champion.
Texas A&M senior Adela Cernousek, who final Might received the NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa, will tee it up Tuesday-Friday at Plantation Golf and Nation Membership in Venice, Florida, as will Mississippi State senior Julia Lopez Ramirez, UCLA senior teammates Zoe Campos and Caroline Canales, Wisconsin senior Chloe Chan, Western Kentucky senior Catie Craig and UNLV senior Toa Yokoyama.
All gamers who full 72 holes will earn not less than conditional Epson Tour standing with the highest 35 and ties receiving full Epson Tour standing, which the school gamers can defer till subsequent summer season, and advancing to Ultimate Qualifying, the place LPGA playing cards shall be on the road. The amateurs, nonetheless, should flip skilled earlier than competing within the last stage, which implies the school gamers should additionally forfeit the rest of their eligibility.
At the least Cernousek, Ramirez and Canales would defer their Epson standing and return to highschool this spring. Campos, nonetheless, would possible flip professional ought to she advance to last qualifying, per UCLA coach Alicia Um Holmes.
The faculty sport has misplaced a number of of its gamers to the professionals midseason, together with most not too long ago Oregon’s Briana Chacon, Clemson’s Savannah Grewal and Tulsa’s Lilly Thomas final yr. 5 gamers, together with top-ranked novice Ingrid Lindblad of LSU, deferred their Epson standing final yr.
The remainder of the 195-player discipline contains Christina Kim, Sandra Gal, Sophia Schubert, Mariah Stackhouse, Amari Avery, Megan Schofill, Rachel Kuehn, Julia Johnson, Beatrice Wallin, Gina Kim, Yana Wilson, sisters Yusang and Vivian Hou, and Bobbi Stricker, daughter of Steve Stricker.
