Beavers Set For Pac-12 Championship

CORVALLIS, Ore. – The Oregon State women's golf team looks to bolster its postseason resume when it competes at the Pac-12 Championship Monday through Wednesday in Tucson, Ariz.

There will be no live television coverage of the 2017 Pac-12 Women's Golf Championships. TV coverage of the event will debut in a one-hour special on Tuesday, May 2 at 4:30 p.m. on Pac-12 Network.

FIELD (11): Oregon State, Arizona, Arizona State, California, Colorado, Oregon, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington and Washington State. Utah doesn't have a women's golf team.

COURSE: The tournament will be held at the par-72, 6,492-yard Sewailo Golf Club.

BEAVERS' LINEUP: Oregon State will go with a lineup of senior Elyse Smidinger, juniors Susie Cavanagh and Hannah Swanson, sophomore Olivia Benzin and freshman Nicole Schroeder.

Oregon State Lineup -- Season Stroke Average
Olivia Benzin -- 73.43 (23 rounds)
Elyse Smidinger -- 74.80 (20 rounds)
Susie Cavanagh -- 75.35 (20 rounds)
Nicole Schroeder -- 76.05 (20 rounds)
Hannah Swanson -- 76.39 (23 rounds)

FORMAT: Three-day, 54-hole tournament with 18 holes each day. The top-four individuals from each five-member team with the lowest scores for each 18-hole round constitute the scoring members for that given round.

TEE TIMES: Tee times begin at 8 a.m. each day. Oregon State will start at 8:40 a.m. on Monday and be paired with USC and Oregon.

LIVE SCORING: There will be live scoring for the tournament at golfstat.com.

SOCIAL MEDIA: Follow the Oregon State women's golf team on Twitter and Facebook.

LAST TIME OUT: Oregon State shot a 2-under 286 in the final round of the PING/ASU Invitational in Tempe, Ariz., two weeks ago to move up the leaderboard and finish in a tie for fifth place.

The Beavers concluded the three-day, 54-hole tournament with an 8-over 291-295-286--872 at the par-72, 6,223-yard ASU Karsten Golf Course and tied UNLV for fifth.

The 2-under 286 equals the third-lowest under-par score in program history. The record is a 5-under 283 at the Westbrook Spring Invitational in 2014.

Arizona State won the 14-team event with a 25-under 839, while Arizona finished second with a 5-under 859, Washington was third with an even-par 864 and Baylor finished fourth with a 2-over 866.

Elyse Smidinger had the round of the tournament, a 4-under 68 on the final day, that included five birdies and only one bogey. She shot an Oregon State record 5-under 67 at the Rose City Collegiate this past fall.

The superb final round vaulted Smidinger 34 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for 36th place with a 6-over 77-77-68--222.

Olivia Benzin also had a strong finish, posting a 2-under 70, to move 11 spots up the leaderboard into a tie for 17th place with a 1-over 73-74-70--217. She now has six top-20 finishes in the eight tournaments this season and six rounds in red figures.

Hannah Swanson was steady from start to finish in the desert, finishing with a 1-over 72-72-73--217 to tie Benzin on the individual leaderboard. The tie for 17th place is her best finish of the season, bettering the tie for 22nd at the Rose City Collegiate.

Susie Cavanagh finished in a tie for 29th with a 5-over 73-73-75--221 and Nicole Schroeder finished in a tie for 45th place with a 9-over 73-76-76--225.

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Players Mentioned

Olivia Benzin

Susie Cavanagh

Nicole Schroeder

Elyse Smidinger