Freshman Clare Legaspi went 2-0 in match play at November's East Lake Cup.
Bruins Host Gifford Great 8 Match Play
March 11, 2017 | Women's Golf
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LOS ANGELES – The Bruins return to the course on Monday, hosting the inaugural Gifford Great 8 Collegiate Match Play at Brentwood Country Club. The tournament begins on Monday morning with the quarterfinals, which will be followed on Monday afternoon with the Great 8 semifinals and the championship rounds on Tuesday morning.
Each of the eight teams will play three matches. On Monday morning, the second-seeded Bruins will face #7-seed Oregon (9:20 a.m.-10:00 a.m. #1 Tee). The other quarterfinal matchups will be #1 USC vs. #8 Oregon State (8:30 a.m.-9:10 a.m. #1 Tee), #4 Purdue vs. #5 Ohio State (8:30 a.m.-9:10 a.m. #10 Tee) and #3 Georgia vs. #6 Colorado (9:20 a.m.-10:00 a.m. #10 Tee). Seedings were based on a combined national ranking of the Golfstat and Golfweek rankings as of March 8.
Quarterfinal winners and losers will square off on Monday afternoon, followed by the Championship, 3rd-, 5th- and 7th-place matches on Tuesday starting at 8 a.m. Live scoring will be available here. Pairings for the quarterfinals will be determined Sunday night.
The five Bruins who will be slotted into Monday morning's match with Oregon will be junior Erin Choi, sophomores Lilia Vu and Bethany Wu and freshmen Mariel Galdiano and Clare Legaspi. In addition, senior Hadas Libman and juniors Lydia Choi and Joo Seo will be taking part in a round-robin, match-play tournament with individuals from Georgia, Ohio State and USC, which will have no effect on the team scoring.
The Bruins are taking part in their second match-play tournament of the 2016-2017 season. UCLA finished fourth out of four teams at the East Lake Cup (Nov. 1-2), dropping a pair of 3-2 matches to Duke in the quarterfinals and to Stanford in the third-place match. Legaspi and Bronte Law earned the two Bruin points in both matches. The Bruins are coming off a second-place finish at the Bruin Wave Invitational (Feb. 27-28).
Vu, the team leader in scoring average at 72.7, won the Bruin Wave. She was the only player not to finish over par, shooting an even-par 219, including an opening-round 3-under 70. Her first collegiate victory marked her third Top Five finish of the season, as she also placed second at the ANNIKA Intercollegiate (Sept. 25-27, -10, 206) and tied for fifth at the Stanford Intercollegiate (Oct. 14-15, +1, 143).
Galdiano is second in scoring average at 72.9 and tied for third at the Bruin Wave (+4, 223). Like Vu, she also has three Top Five showings, finishing second at the Nanea Pac-12 Preview (Oct. 24-25, -4, 215) and T-5 in the single round of stroke play at East Lake (Oct. 31, -1, 71). Wu is third on the team in scoring average at 73.9. Her season-best finish was a T-8 at Stanford (+2, 144), while she also has three additional Top 20s.
In her season debut, Erin Choi placed 13th at the Bruin Wave (+8, 227). She was the lone player in the field under par during the final round, posting a 1-under 72. Legaspi played as an individual at the Bruin Wave, finishing sixth (+5, 224). It was her second Top 10 of the season, as she was eighth in the single round of stroke play at East Lake (E, 72).
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