Michigan Golf Journal May 2021

Michigan Golf Journal College Corner MSU Women Win Big Ten Title, Again The MSU Spartans won the Big Ten Women’s Championship for the program’s 6 th time in the last 10 years, and the 3 rd time since 2017. The title gives the Spartans an automatic bid into the NCAA regionals, in Louisville. MSU led from wire-to-wire and finished with a team 11-under par at the course they seem to dominate; TPC River’s Bend. The Spartans have won their last three Big Ten titles at TPC River’s Bend and this year’s 11-under-par 853 was the lowest of their three winning scores at the course. The University of Michigan shot 4-under par 284 the final two rounds to climb into a 3-way tie for runner up with Maryland and Nebraska, all finishing five strokes behind MSU. Valery Plata of MSU and Ashley Lau of Michigan tied for third place at 5-under par, 211. The pair earned co- Players of the Week in the Big Ten the week prior to the Big Ten Championship. Plata also took home the Big Ten’s Mary Fossum Award for lowest stroke average to par (-0.57) in the conference this season. “We knew there were good things to come for Valery after her first round,” Slobodnik-Stoll said. “To have Valery win the Mary Fossum Award was very special.” Read more Other College Highlights: • Forest Akers West in East Lansing, home to the MSU men’s and women’s golf teams and host of annual high school state finals and several GAM amateur events, will host Michigan Ties for Runner Up with Final-Round Rally By Tom Lang