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TOPY Cup
Cowgirl Golfers Win TOPY Cup By 25 Strokes
September 05, 2002 | Cowgirl Golf
Sept. 5, 2002
Tanagura, Japan - Despite shooting a final-round 74, Oklahoma State freshman Karin Sj?din won the individual title of the TOPY Cup here Wednesday afternoon, carding a three-round total of 208 and finishing two strokes ahead of runnerup M. Kouyama.
Oklahoma State had three golfers finish in the top four as sophomore Annie Thurman finished third with a three-round total of 212, and senior Linda Wessberg finished fourth with a 215. Fellow senior Christi Cano finished 11th with a 220, and sophomore Jenny Karr shot a 229, good enough for 17th place.
The Cowgirls as a team shot a three-day total of 850, and finished 25 strokes ahead of second-place Ohio State. The 850 score is the best in school history by 23 strokes. The previous best was an 873 at the 1999 Shootout at the Legends.
Sj?din placed her name at the top of two Cowgirl golf lists. Her 65 during the first round was the best single-round score ever by an OSU golfer. The previous best was a 66 by LPGA member Val Skinner at the 1981 Sooner Invitational. Sj?din's 208 bettered the previous low of 210, set by Alicia Ogrin at the Houston Baptist Collegiate 25 years ago.
Thurman's 212 ties for the third-best tournament total in school history, tying Maria Bod?n, who shot a 212 at the 2000 Utah-Dixie Classic.
Oklahoma State will return to action on Sept. 15, as the Cowgirls compete in the NCAA National Preview in West Lafayette, Ind., home of the 2003 NCAA Championships.
2002 TOPY Cup
Tanagura Densha Country Club
Tanagura, Japan
Sept. 3-5, 2002 * par 72 * 6,061 yards
Team Results
1. OKLAHOMA STATE 281-283-286--850 2. Ohio State 293-293-289--875 3. Tohoku Fukushi 288-301-293--882 4. NSSU 302-312-309--923 5. Nihon 308-307-298--913
Individual Results
1. Karin Sj?din, Okla. State 65-69-74--208 2. M. Kouyama, Ritsumeikan (Ind.) 71-72-67--210 3. Annie Thurman, Okla. State 71-71-70--212 4. Linda Wessberg, Okla. State 72-74-69--215 5. A. Hanna, Ohio State 75-71-70--216 two others at 216
Other Oklahoma State Scores
11. Christi Cano 77-69-74--220 17. Jenny Karr 73-83-73--229
Other Ohio State Scores
9. K. White 73-74-71--218
L. Knowlton 72-73-73--218
13. J. Selfinger 73-75-76--224
21. J. Borowiec 76-80-75--231
