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Cowgirl Golf Prepped for Fourth Straight Trip to NCAA Championship
May 16, 2024 | Cowgirl Golf
CARLSBAD, Calif – Oklahoma State women's golf will make its fourth straight appearance at the NCAA Championship this week as it begins play on Friday at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa. The 30-team field will take on the par-72, 6,330-yard layout from May 17-22.
Seeded 28th in the field, the Cowgirls head to Carlsbad fresh off the program's best round ever in an NCAA Regional, carding a 9-under 279 to close the NCAA East Lansing Regional in second place, with Maddison Hinson-Tolchard and Marta Silchenko finishing in the top 10.
The championship format in Carlsbad will include 30 teams and six individuals completing 54 holes of stroke play from May 17-19. After 54 holes, the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will compete for one additional day of stroke play on Monday to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole individual champion. The top eight teams will then compete in match play on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the team national championship to be decided on May 22.
Live coverage of the NCAA Women's Golf Championship will air on Golf Channel from 5-9 p.m. CT on May 20-22.
Oklahoma State will make its 25th NCAA Women's Golf Championship appearance and its fourth straight appearance this week. The Cowgirls are one of nine teams in the field to reach the national stage in each of the past four seasons, while head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney will make their seventh straight after going with Kent State from 2017-19.
The Cowgirls finished tied for 11th at last year's NCAA Championship, missing the match-play cut by four strokes. OSU closed day-one action in second after going 8-under 280 at Grayhawk Golf Club, with Hinson-Tolchard posting the program's lowest round at an NCAA Championship, a 6-under 66, while placing fourth individually.
Friday's action opens at 8:40 a.m. CT with 10 pairings, determined by seeding, teeing off throughout the morning. The Cowgirls begin the opening round alongside No. 29 Oregon State and No. 30 Tulsa at 10:30 a.m. CT and will play with the grouping on Saturday at 3:50 p.m. CT. Teams will be re-paired following 36 holes.
Live scoring of the 2024 NCAA Women's Golf National Championship (May 17-22) will be provided on GolfStat.com.
Meet the Cowgirls (5): Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Marta Silchenko, Thitaporn Saithip, Ellie Bushnell, Angelica Pfefferkorn
Meet the Field:
No. 1 Stanford; No. 2 Wake Forest; No. 3 South Carolina; No. 4 LSU; No. 5 UCLA; No. 6 Auburn; No. 7 USC; No. 8 Texas; No. 9 Duke; No. 10 Arkansas; No. 11 Northwestern; No. 12 Oregon; No. 13 Texas A&M; No. 14 Ole Miss; No. 15 Arizona State; No. 16 Clemson; No. 17 Florida State; No. 18 Vanderbilt; No. 19 Pepperdine; No. 20 Virginia; No. 21 Mississippi State; No. 22 SMU; No. 23 San Jose State; No. 24 North Carolina; No. 25 Michigan State; No. 26 Purdue; No. 27 Baylor; No. 28 Oklahoma State; No. 29 Oregon State; No. 30 Tulsa
Individuals: No. 1 Carla Bernat (Kansas State); No. 2 Lauren Beaudreau (Notre Dame); No. 3 Isabella McCauley (Minnesota); No. 4 Veronika Kedronova (Kent State); No. 5 Bailey Davis (Tennessee); No. 6 Jasmine Laovao (Long Beach State)
Regional Rally
The Cowgirls head to Carlsbad fresh off of its lowest round ever at an NCAA Regional, finishing the final 18 at the NCAA East Lansing Regional with a 9-under 279 to punch their ticket to the coast.
Entering regionals as an eighth seed, the Cowgirls finished its opening 36 holes with their season in the balance, slotting in a two-way tie for seventh and four shots back of the projected line. Then, the rally began.
Starting in the final round's second-to-last group, Angelica Pfefferkorn opened Oklahoma State's day with an opening-hole birdie. It foreshadowed what was to follow.
On the day, Oklahoma State trotted out 21 birdies – matching its most in a spring this round – en route to jumping five teams in the leaderboard with its 9-under effort. In the final round, they bested the day's second-lowest round by six shots, while nearly doubling its birdie total – firing just 25 across its first two rounds.
The Cowgirls' 9-under 279 marked the program's lowest round at an NCAA Regional and the lowest round ever tallied at an NCAA East Lansing Regional.
In the mix, back-to-back Big 12 Player of the Year posted her best placement of the season, finishing solo third with rounds of 70-70-68 – 208 (-8), while freshman Marta Silchenko added her lowest round as a Cowgirl, a 5-under 67, to close the tournament en route to tying for seventh place.
Out of the fifth spot, Pfefferkorn also shined with seven birdies in the final round, tying the most she's logged in a round.
No Slipper Needed
The Cowgirls enter the Omni La Costa seeded No. 28 with three underclassmen and a former walk-on in the lineup. But don't be fooled – this group of five is no Cinderella. Given their experience, there is no slipper to begin with.
Reaching its fourth straight NCAA Championship, Oklahoma State enters the field as one of nine programs in the nation to record such a feat, while the coaching duo of head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney have reached the last seven NCAA Championships, being one of two staffs in the nation to do so.
Maddison Hinson-Tolchard also ranks as one of 11 players in the field projected to start in each of the last four NCAA Championships. With 11 career rounds in the setting, she also ties for fifth in the field in most NCAA Championship rounds played.
Freshman Ellie Bushnell also carries extensive experience, being the Cowgirls' first freshman since Stephanie Astrup in 2017-18 to start in each regular-season tournament. With this week's starting nod, she will also be the first OSU freshman since Astrup to start in 12 stroke-play tournaments.
Marta Silchenko, who exited East Lansing with a 5-under 67, Angelica Pfefferkorn and Thitaporn Saithip have also held as key cogs in the lineup, with each starting in 10 or more tournaments.
NCAA Championship Appearances Streak
NCAA Championship Four-Year Projected Starters
*- Brooke Seay of Stanford has competed in 11 NCAA Championship rounds during her career but was an alternate at the 2023 NCAA Championships.
Stars Aligning
The Cowgirls have endured some large counting scores throughout the regular season. However, they showcased in East Lansing that there is no ceiling to their style of play. Fresh off the program's best round in NCAA Regional history, Oklahoma State enters Carlsbad playing its best golf of the season with potential low scorers throughout the lineup.
Oklahoma State carries one of the strongest bases in the country in Maddison Hinson-Tolchard. Entering Carlsbad, Hinson-Tolchard leads the program in career par-or-better rounds (71), firing such rounds in more than 60% of tournaments (60.2%), while peppering seven 60s rounds, punctuated by a record-tying 64 round, this season. Donning a 71.04 scoring average this year – the third-lowest in program history – her consistency has been key.
Collecting wins at the 2022 NCAA Stillwater Regional and the 2023 Big 12 Championship, a third-place finish in this year's NCAA East Lansing Regional and a fourth-place finish at the 2024 NCAA Championship, postseason prominence has been nothing new for the senior. However, the rising play from the Cowgirls' underclassmen is what puts this team in position for a big week.
Freshman Marta Silchenko enters the two spot after a career week in East Lansing in which she recorded her lowest 54-hole score (212), 18-hole score (67) and overall placement, finishing tied for seventh with rounds of 71-74-67 – 212. Silchenko caught fire to open day three, birdieing four of her first six holes before going bogey-free in the back nine to end 5-under.
The native of Riga, Latvia, is no stranger to adding circles to her scorecard as she leads the team with 94 birdies and counting this season. If she manages to keep bogeys off the board as she did in East Lansing – she'll be in for another strong placement this week.
Ellie Bushnell is also another freshman to watch as he leads the team with seven 60s rounds this season. Bushnell has starred against tough competition this season, notably going 24-2-1 against Scoreboard top-100 golfers at the PING/ASU Invitational.
Thitaporn Saithip and Angelica Pfefferkorn have also been trending upward in postseason play, with Saithip marking her first collegiate bogey-free round in the Big 12 Championship and Pfefferkorn catching fire with a seven-birdie round in regionals.
Cowgirl Notables:
• The Cowgirls are making the program's 25th nationals appearance.
• The Cowgirls are one of nine program's in the nation to reach the NCAA Championship in each of the last four seasons.
• Head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney are set to make their seventh straight appearance at nationals, making three straight with Kent State. They are one of two head coach and assistant coach pairings to do so alongside head coach Ryan Murphy and associate head coach Kate Golden of Texas.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard is one of 11 players in the field projected to start in each of the last four NCAA Championships. With 11 career rounds in the setting, she also ties for fifth in the field in most NCAA Championship rounds played.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard passed Kenzie Neisen (2015-18) for second in program history in career birdies last week in East Lansing with 375. She is 22 away from the all-time record holder, Pernilla Lindberg (2006-09.)
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard is coming off her best placement of the season, a solo third-place finish, while freshman Marta Silchenko posted her first top-10 placement and lowest round as a Cowgirl in regional play, tying for seventh and posting a 5-under 67 to close play.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard enters East Lansing with a 71.04 scoring average this season, the third-lowest in program history.
• Angelica Pfefferkorn has become the first Cowgirl to appear in more events as a senior (11) than her first three years combined (8).
• Freshman duo Ellie Bushnell and Marta Silchenko have carded seven and six 60s rounds this season, joining Rina Tatematsu and Chih-Min Chen, who signed nine and five, as the only other OSU freshman to ever post five or more in a season. Tatematsu (2021) and Chen (2015) went on to win Big 12 Freshman of the Year.
• Ellie Bushnell and Marta Silchenko are the first Cowgirl freshman duo to play in 12 tournaments since 2009-10, while also posting the most 60s rounds by an OSU freshman class with 13.
• The Cowgirls have fired 24 rounds in the 60s this season, good for fourth-most in program history and three behind last season's 27 rounds.
• The Cowgirls have posted 64 par-or-better rounds this season, its fifth-most in program history, but also the fewest since 2019-20 (43 rounds).
• Four Cowgirls: Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Clemence Martin, Ellie Bushnell and Thitaporn Saithip have gone bogey-free this season, with Hinson-Tolchard doing so twice.
• Ellie Bushnell became the first Cowgirl freshman since Stephanie Astrup in 2017-18 to start in every regular-season tournament.
• Ellie Bushnell placed the highest finish by a Cowgirl this regular season, finishing tied for fourth at the PING/ASU Invitational. In action, Bushnell went 24-2-1 over Scoreboard top 100 golfers.
Seeded 28th in the field, the Cowgirls head to Carlsbad fresh off the program's best round ever in an NCAA Regional, carding a 9-under 279 to close the NCAA East Lansing Regional in second place, with Maddison Hinson-Tolchard and Marta Silchenko finishing in the top 10.
The championship format in Carlsbad will include 30 teams and six individuals completing 54 holes of stroke play from May 17-19. After 54 holes, the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will compete for one additional day of stroke play on Monday to determine the top eight teams for match play competition and the 72-hole individual champion. The top eight teams will then compete in match play on Tuesday and Wednesday, with the team national championship to be decided on May 22.
Live coverage of the NCAA Women's Golf Championship will air on Golf Channel from 5-9 p.m. CT on May 20-22.
Oklahoma State will make its 25th NCAA Women's Golf Championship appearance and its fourth straight appearance this week. The Cowgirls are one of nine teams in the field to reach the national stage in each of the past four seasons, while head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney will make their seventh straight after going with Kent State from 2017-19.
The Cowgirls finished tied for 11th at last year's NCAA Championship, missing the match-play cut by four strokes. OSU closed day-one action in second after going 8-under 280 at Grayhawk Golf Club, with Hinson-Tolchard posting the program's lowest round at an NCAA Championship, a 6-under 66, while placing fourth individually.
Friday's action opens at 8:40 a.m. CT with 10 pairings, determined by seeding, teeing off throughout the morning. The Cowgirls begin the opening round alongside No. 29 Oregon State and No. 30 Tulsa at 10:30 a.m. CT and will play with the grouping on Saturday at 3:50 p.m. CT. Teams will be re-paired following 36 holes.
Live scoring of the 2024 NCAA Women's Golf National Championship (May 17-22) will be provided on GolfStat.com.
Meet the Cowgirls (5): Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Marta Silchenko, Thitaporn Saithip, Ellie Bushnell, Angelica Pfefferkorn
Meet the Field:
No. 1 Stanford; No. 2 Wake Forest; No. 3 South Carolina; No. 4 LSU; No. 5 UCLA; No. 6 Auburn; No. 7 USC; No. 8 Texas; No. 9 Duke; No. 10 Arkansas; No. 11 Northwestern; No. 12 Oregon; No. 13 Texas A&M; No. 14 Ole Miss; No. 15 Arizona State; No. 16 Clemson; No. 17 Florida State; No. 18 Vanderbilt; No. 19 Pepperdine; No. 20 Virginia; No. 21 Mississippi State; No. 22 SMU; No. 23 San Jose State; No. 24 North Carolina; No. 25 Michigan State; No. 26 Purdue; No. 27 Baylor; No. 28 Oklahoma State; No. 29 Oregon State; No. 30 Tulsa
Individuals: No. 1 Carla Bernat (Kansas State); No. 2 Lauren Beaudreau (Notre Dame); No. 3 Isabella McCauley (Minnesota); No. 4 Veronika Kedronova (Kent State); No. 5 Bailey Davis (Tennessee); No. 6 Jasmine Laovao (Long Beach State)
Regional Rally
The Cowgirls head to Carlsbad fresh off of its lowest round ever at an NCAA Regional, finishing the final 18 at the NCAA East Lansing Regional with a 9-under 279 to punch their ticket to the coast.
Entering regionals as an eighth seed, the Cowgirls finished its opening 36 holes with their season in the balance, slotting in a two-way tie for seventh and four shots back of the projected line. Then, the rally began.
Starting in the final round's second-to-last group, Angelica Pfefferkorn opened Oklahoma State's day with an opening-hole birdie. It foreshadowed what was to follow.
On the day, Oklahoma State trotted out 21 birdies – matching its most in a spring this round – en route to jumping five teams in the leaderboard with its 9-under effort. In the final round, they bested the day's second-lowest round by six shots, while nearly doubling its birdie total – firing just 25 across its first two rounds.
The Cowgirls' 9-under 279 marked the program's lowest round at an NCAA Regional and the lowest round ever tallied at an NCAA East Lansing Regional.
In the mix, back-to-back Big 12 Player of the Year posted her best placement of the season, finishing solo third with rounds of 70-70-68 – 208 (-8), while freshman Marta Silchenko added her lowest round as a Cowgirl, a 5-under 67, to close the tournament en route to tying for seventh place.
Out of the fifth spot, Pfefferkorn also shined with seven birdies in the final round, tying the most she's logged in a round.
No Slipper Needed
The Cowgirls enter the Omni La Costa seeded No. 28 with three underclassmen and a former walk-on in the lineup. But don't be fooled – this group of five is no Cinderella. Given their experience, there is no slipper to begin with.
Reaching its fourth straight NCAA Championship, Oklahoma State enters the field as one of nine programs in the nation to record such a feat, while the coaching duo of head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney have reached the last seven NCAA Championships, being one of two staffs in the nation to do so.
Maddison Hinson-Tolchard also ranks as one of 11 players in the field projected to start in each of the last four NCAA Championships. With 11 career rounds in the setting, she also ties for fifth in the field in most NCAA Championship rounds played.
Freshman Ellie Bushnell also carries extensive experience, being the Cowgirls' first freshman since Stephanie Astrup in 2017-18 to start in each regular-season tournament. With this week's starting nod, she will also be the first OSU freshman since Astrup to start in 12 stroke-play tournaments.
Marta Silchenko, who exited East Lansing with a 5-under 67, Angelica Pfefferkorn and Thitaporn Saithip have also held as key cogs in the lineup, with each starting in 10 or more tournaments.
NCAA Championship Appearances Streak
| Program | NCAA Championship Streak |
| Southern California | 26 |
| Stanford | 15 |
| Texas | 8 |
| Wake Forest | 6 |
| Florida State | 6 |
| Oklahoma State | 4 |
| South Carolina | 4 |
| LSU | 4 |
| Baylor | 4 |
| Player | Program | NCAA Championship Rounds |
| Sadie Englemann | Stanford | 12 |
| Ingrid Lindblad | LSU | 12 |
| Alice Hodge | Florida State | 12 |
| Charlotte Heath | Florida State | 12 |
| Maddison Hinson-Tolchard | Oklahoma State | 11 |
| Rachel Kuehn | Wake Forest | 11 |
| Latanna Stone | LSU | 11 |
| Brianna Navarrosa | USC | 11 |
| Mimi Rhodes | Wake Forest | 10 |
| Rosie Belsham | Baylor | 10 |
| Britta Snyder | Baylor | 8 |
Stars Aligning
The Cowgirls have endured some large counting scores throughout the regular season. However, they showcased in East Lansing that there is no ceiling to their style of play. Fresh off the program's best round in NCAA Regional history, Oklahoma State enters Carlsbad playing its best golf of the season with potential low scorers throughout the lineup.
Oklahoma State carries one of the strongest bases in the country in Maddison Hinson-Tolchard. Entering Carlsbad, Hinson-Tolchard leads the program in career par-or-better rounds (71), firing such rounds in more than 60% of tournaments (60.2%), while peppering seven 60s rounds, punctuated by a record-tying 64 round, this season. Donning a 71.04 scoring average this year – the third-lowest in program history – her consistency has been key.
Collecting wins at the 2022 NCAA Stillwater Regional and the 2023 Big 12 Championship, a third-place finish in this year's NCAA East Lansing Regional and a fourth-place finish at the 2024 NCAA Championship, postseason prominence has been nothing new for the senior. However, the rising play from the Cowgirls' underclassmen is what puts this team in position for a big week.
Freshman Marta Silchenko enters the two spot after a career week in East Lansing in which she recorded her lowest 54-hole score (212), 18-hole score (67) and overall placement, finishing tied for seventh with rounds of 71-74-67 – 212. Silchenko caught fire to open day three, birdieing four of her first six holes before going bogey-free in the back nine to end 5-under.
The native of Riga, Latvia, is no stranger to adding circles to her scorecard as she leads the team with 94 birdies and counting this season. If she manages to keep bogeys off the board as she did in East Lansing – she'll be in for another strong placement this week.
Ellie Bushnell is also another freshman to watch as he leads the team with seven 60s rounds this season. Bushnell has starred against tough competition this season, notably going 24-2-1 against Scoreboard top-100 golfers at the PING/ASU Invitational.
Thitaporn Saithip and Angelica Pfefferkorn have also been trending upward in postseason play, with Saithip marking her first collegiate bogey-free round in the Big 12 Championship and Pfefferkorn catching fire with a seven-birdie round in regionals.
Cowgirl Notables:
• The Cowgirls are making the program's 25th nationals appearance.
• The Cowgirls are one of nine program's in the nation to reach the NCAA Championship in each of the last four seasons.
• Head coach Greg Robertson and assistant coach Maddi Swaney are set to make their seventh straight appearance at nationals, making three straight with Kent State. They are one of two head coach and assistant coach pairings to do so alongside head coach Ryan Murphy and associate head coach Kate Golden of Texas.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard is one of 11 players in the field projected to start in each of the last four NCAA Championships. With 11 career rounds in the setting, she also ties for fifth in the field in most NCAA Championship rounds played.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard passed Kenzie Neisen (2015-18) for second in program history in career birdies last week in East Lansing with 375. She is 22 away from the all-time record holder, Pernilla Lindberg (2006-09.)
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard is coming off her best placement of the season, a solo third-place finish, while freshman Marta Silchenko posted her first top-10 placement and lowest round as a Cowgirl in regional play, tying for seventh and posting a 5-under 67 to close play.
• Maddison Hinson-Tolchard enters East Lansing with a 71.04 scoring average this season, the third-lowest in program history.
• Angelica Pfefferkorn has become the first Cowgirl to appear in more events as a senior (11) than her first three years combined (8).
• Freshman duo Ellie Bushnell and Marta Silchenko have carded seven and six 60s rounds this season, joining Rina Tatematsu and Chih-Min Chen, who signed nine and five, as the only other OSU freshman to ever post five or more in a season. Tatematsu (2021) and Chen (2015) went on to win Big 12 Freshman of the Year.
• Ellie Bushnell and Marta Silchenko are the first Cowgirl freshman duo to play in 12 tournaments since 2009-10, while also posting the most 60s rounds by an OSU freshman class with 13.
• The Cowgirls have fired 24 rounds in the 60s this season, good for fourth-most in program history and three behind last season's 27 rounds.
• The Cowgirls have posted 64 par-or-better rounds this season, its fifth-most in program history, but also the fewest since 2019-20 (43 rounds).
• Four Cowgirls: Maddison Hinson-Tolchard, Clemence Martin, Ellie Bushnell and Thitaporn Saithip have gone bogey-free this season, with Hinson-Tolchard doing so twice.
• Ellie Bushnell became the first Cowgirl freshman since Stephanie Astrup in 2017-18 to start in every regular-season tournament.
• Ellie Bushnell placed the highest finish by a Cowgirl this regular season, finishing tied for fourth at the PING/ASU Invitational. In action, Bushnell went 24-2-1 over Scoreboard top 100 golfers.
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