Led by Jodi Ewart’s 4-under 68 and second-place individual finish, the 21st-ranked University of New Mexico women’s golf team ended in sixth place at the Bruin Wave Invitational in Santa Clarita, Calif.
Ewart had five birdies and a bogey in tying a career-low round. She finished at 5-under 211, three shots behind Pepperdine’s Danielle Kang. [Read more →]
The 21st-ranked University of New Mexico Lobo Women’s Golf Team heads to the Bruin Wave Invitational this week.
The 54-hole tournament will be played Monday through Wednesday at the Robinson Ranch Golf Club (par 72, 6,282 yards) in Santa Clarita, Calif.
UCLA and Pepperdine are the co-hosts. The 18-team field features 11 schools ranked in the top-50 of the Feb. 24 Golfstat rankings.
New Mexico State University Aggie golfer Tim Madigan, subject of our September-October cover story, has broken into GolfWeek magazine’s ranking of the top 100 collegiate golfers, according to the magazine’s Oct 4 edition.
University New Mexico Lobo Women’s Team golfer Jodi Ewart of Yorkshire, England, remains No. 8 in the magazine’s women’s individual rankings, which can be found by clicking on Golf Week Rankings
GolfWorld magazine places University of New Mexico Lobo Jodi Ewart at No. 8 on the list of the top 10 women NCAA college players to watch for the 2009 season.
The list, appearing in the Sept. 7 issue of the magazine, also can be seen online at Golf World. No. 1 female player is Arizona State University sophomore Jennifer Song. Top male player is Oklahoma State sophomore Morgan Hoffmann.
The Lobo women’s golf team is ranked 25th in the nation in GolfWorld’s pre-season college coaches’ poll. Texas Tech is ranked 24th in the poll of men’s college coaches.
No New Mexico or West Texas players made the top 10 list of male players.
The same issue of GolfWorld contains an article on how PGA Tour player Jim Furyk came to be penalized for having 15 clubs — one too many — in the third round of the Barclays at Liberty National Golf Club in Jersey City, N.J.
Ewart, a senior, is from Yorkshire, England. She will be in the field at the 2009 Branch Law Firm Dick McGuire Invitational Sept. 19-20 at the University of New Mexico Championship Golf Course. For more, click here.
