Jill Trujillo The LPGA’s teaching and club professional membership named Lobo Women’s Golf Team Head Coach its 2009 college coach of the year for the central region.
For the entire list of award winners, click on LPGA
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.
University of New Mexico Lobo golfer Jodi Ewart fell to Alexis Thompson 2 and 1 today in the round of 16 of the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis.
Ewart, who will be a senior at UNM in the fall, was down three holes after losing No. 8. She chipped away to cut the deficit to one hole after winning No. 14. Thompson, 15, of Coral Springs, Fla., clinched the match on the Par 3 17th when she made par and Ewart suffered a bogey.
University of New Mexico Lobo golfer Jodi Ewart won a marathon match today in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Amateur at the Old Warson Country Club in St. Louis.
Ewart, who will be a senior at UNM in the fall, outlasted Mallory Fraiche of Metairie, La., 1 up in a competition that required 25 holes to complete.
Fraiche will be a senior at the University of Arkansas-Little Rock. Ewart was 1 down after making a double bogey 6 on the par-4 4th. She got it back to all square with a par on No. 7. Fraiche regained a 1 up lead at 12. It was all square again after Ewart won No. 15, and it stayed that way until the 25th hole. That’s when Ewart made birdie on the par-3 7th to advance to Thursday’s Round of 32.
Ewart was paired with Alexis Thompson of Coral Springs, Fla., in the Round of 32, set to begin at 7:10 a.m. Mountain Time Thursday. If Ewart wins that match, she advances to the round of 16 at 12:20 p.m. Mountain On Thursday. After Thursday, players play one match a day through the final match on Sunday.
The Golf Channel is picking up Thursday’s action from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Mountain.
For the USGA’s website, click on U.S. Women’s Amateur
Lobo alum Michael Letzig acquitted himself admirably in a final-round pairing with Tiger Woods at the Buick Open, finishing five strokes back and taking home a check for $177,000.
CBS commentator Nick Faldo was complimentary to the former Lobo, praising his putting, which kept him in the tournament throughout all four days.
Letzig started the final round one shot behind Woods, who gained two more strokes to finish at 20-under, while Letzig gave back one stroke to par to finish at 15 under.
