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NCAA Championship
Cowgirl Golfers Finish 13th At NCAA Championships
May 24, 2002 | Cowgirl Golf
May 24, 2002
Auburn, Wash. - Oklahoma State shot the fourth-best round of the day, carding a team total of 290, as the Cowgirl golfers moved up two spots to finish the 2002 NCAA Championships in 13th place here Friday afternoon. Cowgirl junior Linda Wessberg rebounded from yesterday's score of 84 with a one-under-par 71.
Duke won the team title with a 12-over 1164, six strokes better than a trio of teams that tied for second. Arizona, Auburn and Texas all tied with a 1170. Georgia, the defending national champion, rounded out the top-five teams with an 1176.
Virada Nirapathpongporn led the Duke Blue Devils by winning the individual medalist honors. Her four-day score of 279 was nine under par, outscoring a group of four golfers that each scored a 284. Nirapathpongporn is a sophomore from Bangkok, Thailand. In fact, three of the top-five finishers are international students.
Oklahoma State was two under as a team on the back nine and had no scores higher than bogey on the day. The Cowgirls were nine-over-par on the four par threes, including 10 bogeys and just one birdie. The most difficult hole was No. 5, on which OSU had four bogeys. Oklahoma State was two-under-par on the par fives, with four birdies and two bogeys, both on hole No. 17.
The 1189 total was the lowest 72-hole score by a Cowgirl team in school history.
Junior Christi Cano shot a 72 and finished with a four-day total of 295, the fifth-best NCAA Championship by a Cowgirl in school history. Senior Emma Zackrisson carded an even-par 72 on Friday as well, and finished with a four-round total of 296, the sixth-best NCAA Championship by a Cowgirl.
Freshmen Jenny Karr and Annie Thurman both shot a final round of 75, with Karr finishing in 60th place with a 301 while Thurman finished 75th with a 304 four-round total.
Oklahoma State returns four-of-five starters next season, losing Zackrisson. She ends her career with more rounds (144) and more strokes (10,973) than any other Cowgirl in school history. She also finishes with the third-best career stroke average (76.20) by any golfer in a Cowgirl uniform.
NCAA Division I Women's Golf National Championships
Washington National Golf Club *Auburn, Wash.
May 21-25, 2002 * par 72 * 6,273 yards
Final Results
Team Results
1. Duke 294-293-290-287--1164
2. Auburn 298-300-285-287--1170
Arizona 285-296-293-296--1170
Texas 305-286-285-294--1170
5. Georgia 294-294-296-292--1176
6. Florida 298-291-295-295--1179
Oklahoma 299-289-301-290--1179
8. Ohio State 299-292-296-293--1180
9. Arizona State 301-292-292-301--1186
Pepperdine 301-294-297-294--1186
11. Stanford 299-295-295-298--1187
12. Tulsa 302-297-296-293--1188
13. OKLAHOMA STATE 299-303-297-290--1189
14. USC 307-294-298-293--1192
15. California 298-303-292-300--1193
16. Purdue 304-296-297-301--1198
17. Michigan 301-299-299-300--1199
18. Vanderbilt 311-296-296-298--1201
19. Michigan State 305-297-311-289--1202
20. Washington 302-297-305-299--1203
21. UCLA 314-297-298-295--1204
22. Wake Forest 298-305-302-301--1206
23. South Carolina 298-299-308-313--1217
24. South Florida 313-322-323-313--1271
Individual Results
1. V. Nirapathpongporn, Duke 68-69-70-72--279
2. Summer Sirmons, Georgia 69-68-73-74--284
Lorena Ochoa, Arizona 71-69-71-73--284
Danielle Downey, Auburn 73-69-70-72--284
Lindsey Wright, Pepperdine 70-71-71-72--284
OSU Scores
27. Christi Cano 76-77-70-72--295
31. Emma Zackrisson 75-76-73-72--296
60. Jenny Karr 75-75-76-75--301
75. Annie Thurman 73-78-78-75--304
93. Linda Wessberg 77-75-84-71--307
