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Chayse Gomez Posts Program-Best Finish At NCAA Championships
May 22, 2023 | Women's Golf
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – Chayse Gomez concluded the NCAA Division I Women's Golf Championships in a tie for 10th place on Monday. It's the best-ever finish by an Oregon State women's golfer at nationals.
Gomez was in red figures all four rounds in hot and windy conditions, posting a 5-under 71-71-70-71--283 at the par-72, 6,383-yard Grayhawk Golf Club. She was one of only three golfers in the field to shoot four sub-par rounds in the championship.
The previous best finish by an Oregon State golfer was a tie for 25th place by Kathleen Takaishi at the University Ridge Golf Course in Madison, Wisc., in 1998.
Gomez earned an extra round as one of the top nine players not part of advancing teams after the first 54 holes of stroke play. The Beavers finished the first three days of stroke play in a tie for 22nd place and were outside the top 15 teams that advanced.
Gomez started her final round with a bogey but settled in with back-to-back birdies on the par-5 11th and par-4 12th holes. She reeled off four straight pars before dropping in another birdie on the par-4 17th hole.
After a bogey on the par-5 18th hole, she went on another par run with four in a row before a bogey on the par-3 fifth. She ended the day with three straight pars and a birdie on the difficult par-4, 394-yard ninth hole.
Gomez, in her fourth year at Oregon State, got hot at the right time by breaking par in seven consecutive rounds in postseason. She finished in a tie for seventh place at the NCAA Westfield Regional with a career-best 6-under 71-68-71--210 and followed that with a 71-71-70-71 at the NCAA Championships.
She will return to Oregon State for a fifth year and now has five career Top 10 finishes with four of them coming this season. During her breakout senior campaign, she has posted 12 rounds in red figures after shooting a total of eight in her first three years as a Beaver.
Rose Zhang of Stanford, the No. 1-ranked player in the world, claimed medalist honors with a 10-under 278.
Stanford, Texas, Wake Forest, South Carolina, USC, Florida State, Texas A&M and Pepperdine advanced to match play, which begins Tuesday with the national championship slated for Wednesday.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
Gomez was in red figures all four rounds in hot and windy conditions, posting a 5-under 71-71-70-71--283 at the par-72, 6,383-yard Grayhawk Golf Club. She was one of only three golfers in the field to shoot four sub-par rounds in the championship.
The previous best finish by an Oregon State golfer was a tie for 25th place by Kathleen Takaishi at the University Ridge Golf Course in Madison, Wisc., in 1998.
Gomez earned an extra round as one of the top nine players not part of advancing teams after the first 54 holes of stroke play. The Beavers finished the first three days of stroke play in a tie for 22nd place and were outside the top 15 teams that advanced.
Gomez started her final round with a bogey but settled in with back-to-back birdies on the par-5 11th and par-4 12th holes. She reeled off four straight pars before dropping in another birdie on the par-4 17th hole.
After a bogey on the par-5 18th hole, she went on another par run with four in a row before a bogey on the par-3 fifth. She ended the day with three straight pars and a birdie on the difficult par-4, 394-yard ninth hole.
Gomez, in her fourth year at Oregon State, got hot at the right time by breaking par in seven consecutive rounds in postseason. She finished in a tie for seventh place at the NCAA Westfield Regional with a career-best 6-under 71-68-71--210 and followed that with a 71-71-70-71 at the NCAA Championships.
She will return to Oregon State for a fifth year and now has five career Top 10 finishes with four of them coming this season. During her breakout senior campaign, she has posted 12 rounds in red figures after shooting a total of eight in her first three years as a Beaver.
Rose Zhang of Stanford, the No. 1-ranked player in the world, claimed medalist honors with a 10-under 278.
Stanford, Texas, Wake Forest, South Carolina, USC, Florida State, Texas A&M and Pepperdine advanced to match play, which begins Tuesday with the national championship slated for Wednesday.
OUR MISSION
Oregon State Athletics strives to Build Excellent Authentic Visionary Student-Athletes (Go BEAVS).
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