Toledo Heading South for Memphis Women's Intercollegiate

Monday, April 1

Germantown, Tenn.

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Memphis Women's Intercollegiate

Junior Saranlak Tumfong and the Rockets will compete in the Memphis Women's Intercollegiate next week.

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Toledo Heading South for Memphis Women's Intercollegiate

3/29/2019 12:59:00 PM | Women's Golf

TOLEDO, Ohio – The Toledo women's golf team will receive the first of two final tuneups for the Mid-American Conference Championships when it competes in the Memphis Women's Intercollegiate on Monday-Tuesday, April 1-2 in Germantown, Tenn. An 8:30 a.m. shotgun start will be held for each day of competition.

Toledo won its first two events this spring at the Grand Canyon Invitational in Phoenix, Ariz. and the Battle at Boulder Creek in Boulder City, Nev. before posting an 11^th-place showing at the Valspar Augusta Invitational. Head Coach Jenny Coluccio has been pleased with the continued growth her squad has displayed since the start of the spring season in February.

"We have improved our course strategy and mental games in a variety of ways on the course this spring," the Rockets' first-year head coach said. "Belief and self-trust have been our top two areas of focus as well as having a better understanding of our golf strengths and how to plan a strategy to play a course around those strengths. Leading into the MAC, we are continuing to work on a wide variety of short game shots as well as mentally how to adjust the plan quickly."

Toledo will be facing a solid field in Memphis that includes four schools ranked in Golfstat's Top 100 rankings and will be playing at the par-71, 6,105-yard Ridgeway Country Club.

"We are excited to play in Memphis and Ridgeway Country Club is a great course to compete on," Coluccio said. "The course is fairly straightforward and will be a good test for applying what we learned at our last event in Augusta."

Pinyada Kuvanun is leading the Rockets with a 72.8 stroke average with classmates Pimchanok Kawil and Natcha Daengpiem close behind with 74.6 and 75.1 marks, respectively. Junior Saranlak Tumfong possesses a 76.9 stroke mark.

Following its trip to Memphis, Toledo will compete in Ohio State's Lady Buckeye Invitational on April 13-14 before heading to Noblesville, Ind. for the MAC Championships on April 19-21.

ROCKETS MAKING MARK IN RECORD BOOK
Toledo nearly broke its school 18-hole record with its three-under 285 in the opening round at the Grand Canyon Invitational on Feb. 23-24. The school record of four-under 284 was shot on April 4, 2016 at the web.com Intercollegiate. UT also has posted the third- and fourth-best rounds in school history this season with a 286 and 288 in the first two rounds of the MAC Preview, respectively.

The Rockets' 13-over par 877 at the Grand Canyon Invitational ranked third in program history, five shots behind UT's eight-over 872 at the 2016 Mid-American Conference Championships.

In the fall, Pimchanok Kawil fired a school-record seven-under 65 at the Bettie Lou Evans Invitational. She is joined in the Rockets' best five rounds ever by Natcha Daengiem (66/MAC Preview) and Pinyada Kuvanun (67/Idle Hour Collegiate). Kawil shot a 67 at the Golfweek Conference Challenge as a sophomore as well and set the 54-hole school record at the Evans tournament this season with an eight-under 208.

THE FIELD
The Rockets are ranked No. 94 in Golfstat's computer rankings and will be joined by four other programs that appear in Golfstat's Top 100 - No. 51 Penn State, No. 67 Middle Tennessee, No. 70 Memphis and No. 93 Marshall. Also competing in the event are No. 115 Western Kentucky, No. 121 Central Arkansas, No. 123 Troy, No. 129 Southern Mississippi, No. 150 Cincinnati, No. 161 UAB, No. 166 Missouri State, No. 168 Arkansas State and No. 198 Little Rock.

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