Jensen Castle Launches Podcast with Duke’s Megan Furtney
LEXINGTON, Ky. – Jensen Castle, the 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur champion, has launched a podcast with Duke women’s golf junior Megan Furtney to go “inside the ropes” of college golf and help younger generations with tips on what to expect as college athletes.
The podcast, titled “Tee to Green,” launched Friday and will feature two episodes a month on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Anchor.
Tee to Green will feature candid conversations with some of the game’s best young talent and minds. Guests will be from the collegiate ranks, starting with the debut episode with Tennessee’s Mikayla Bardwell.
Castle, of course, will bring plenty of clout to the conversation. Already a record-setting golfer at Kentucky, Castle broke through on the national stage with a historic victory at the 2021 U.S. Women’s Amateur. She beat some of the country’s top players to win the national championship for amateurs at Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York.
Castle’s victory at the U.S. Women’s Amateur earned her a spot on the United States Curtis Cup squad, the first player in school history to make the team. Competing in Wales, Castle played an important role in the Americans’ 12.5-7.5 victory over Great Britain and Ireland. She has also been selected for the 2022 Curtis Cup.
Earlier in the summer, Castle teamed up with Wake Forest’s Rachel Kuehn to win their second straight Carolinas Women’s Four-Ball Championship with a record-tying score, and last month she was named the 2021 Kentucky Golf Association Women’s Player of the year.
Castle’s individual success over the summer followed Kentucky’s historic return to the NCAA Championship Finals in the spring. The Wildcats’ reached the national championship stage in Scottsdale, Arizona, the program’s first appearance since 1992. Of course, Castle played a central role in the Wildcats’ breakthrough, contributing 30 of her 33 scores to the team total.
Castle has not slowed down in the fall in the return to collegiate competition for Kentucky’s 2021-22 season. Now a junior, Castle leads the Wildcats in scoring average with 71.75 strokes per round, fractions better than her program’s record-setting pace in 2019-20 when she was just a freshman.
She posted two top-20 finishes in four events in the fall, including a third-place finish at the Mason Rudolph Championship thanks to a career-best 54-hole score of 208, 8-under par.
In addition to four collegiate events this fall, Castle also competed in the LPGA Tour’s Cognizant Founders Cup on a special exemption.
Castle’s co-host, Furtney, is a decorated player as well. The junior is a two-time Women’s Golf Coaches Association All-American. She has played in nine tournaments for the Blue Devils and won the 2019 U.S. Golf Association Championship in 2019 prior to arriving at Duke.
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