Pac-12 Championships
Sunday-Tuesday, April 22-24
Broadmoor Golf Club (Par-70 • 6,427 yards)
Seattle, Washington
Live Results • GoStanford.com
Television • Pac-12 Networks will cover the event with a one-hour special on May 2 at 4:30 p.m. PT.
Cardinal Lineup • Andrea Lee, Mika Liu, Albane Valenzuela, Ziyi Wang, Shannon Aubert
The Lowdown
• No. 6 Stanford heads to the Pacific Northwest this weekend for the Pac-12 Conference Women's Golf Championships. The Cardinal was third in the 2017 edition of the event.
• Washington will host the Pac-12 Championships for the first time since 2006. The championship rotates between the 11 Pac-12 institutions that sponsor women's golf. Broadmoor Golf Club in Seattle, Washington, will be the site of the Pac-12 Championships.
• Stanford has won two Pac-12 titles -- 1999 and 2014 -- since tournament play began in 1987. Mhairi McKay (1997) is Stanford's lone individual champion.
• In the 2017 conference tournament, Andrea Lee tied for third while Albane Valenzuela tied for 11th and Shannon Aubert tied for 16th.
• Two Cardinal student-athletes are featured among GolfStat's top 25 individual rankings: Lee (4th -- 70.58 adjusted scoring average) and Mika Liu (21st -- 72.23). Valenzuela (72.06) is 26th and Ziyi Wang (73.99) is 121st.
• Lee is seeking her seventh career collegiate win, and fourth on the season.
• Stanford has finished at least third or better in each of its eight events on the season.
• During the fall portion of the 2017-18 season, Stanford shelved four top-three finishes. The Cardinal also placed first in the stroke play portion of the East Lake Cup.
The Format
• Teams will complete 18 holes (54 total) of stroke play each of the three days.
• The four individuals from each team with the lowest scores for any 18-hole round constitute the scoring members of the team for that round. The team championship will be awarded to the squad with the lowest total combined score for all rounds.
The Field
• Seven of the 11 teams competing this week are ranked in Golfweek's top 25: No. 3 UCLA, No. 4 USC, No. 6 Stanford, No. 13 Arizona, No. 14 Arizona State, No. 17 Washington and No. 20 Colorado.
The Course
• Abraham Lincoln was president when the heavily timbered land destined to be Broadmoor Golf Club was acquired by Puget Mill Company. Travel overland from Elliott Bay to the lakeside property took half a day. Years later, when cable cars ran out Madison from town to Lake Washington, the company dedicated 115 acres to a golf course and 85 acres to a residence park to create Broadmoor, the Pacific Northwest's first country club development.
• Broadmoor Golf Club came into being September 10, 1924, when E. G. Ames, Puget Mill Company general manager, Grosvenor Folsom, and George W. Johnson founded the corporation. Membership was for Broadmoor residents only.
• Golf history hosted at Broadmoor over the years includes the Seattle $10,000 Open Tournament in 1945 with Byron Nelson, Jug McSpaden, Ben Hogan, and Sam Snead. Nelson took the tournament with a new world's record of 259 for 72 holes, 21 under par. In 1952 at the Women's Weathervane Tournament Betsy Rawls bested Babe Zaharias. In 1954 the 52nd Western Amateur brought Jack Benny, Bing Crosby, and Phil Harris to the course. In 1961 Broadmoor hosted the 13th annual USGA Girl's Junior Golf Championship and the Seattle Open where Miller Barber captured the $10,000 prize.
• With the Seattle World's Fair in 1962, the Seattle Open attracted Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Tony Lema, Ken Venturi, Dave Hill, Julius Boros, Doug Sanders, Jack Nicklaus, Hollywood stars Bob Hope, James Garner, Don Cherry, Dennis Morgan and Phil Crosby, and a crowd of 6,000 for the Pro Am. In 1964 the Seattle Open was held for the last time at Broadmoor. Billy Casper claimed the main spot in the winner's circle.
The Coverage
• Live results will be available throughout the event at GoStanford.com, with updates available on Twitter (@StanfordWgolf), Facebook (StanfordWgolf) and Instagram (@StanfordWgolf).
The Next Time Out
• Following the Pac-12 Championships, the Cardinal will await its postseason seeding. The Cardinal is playing host to the NCAA San Francisco Regional Championships (May 7-9) at TPC Harding Park.
